Dr. of Musical Arts Tomislav Dimov, a student of Prof. Biljana Gavrilska and Prof. Anatoliy Kiselev, graduated with Honors and earned his Ph.D. at the Russian Academy of Music - Gnesins, in Moscow, Russia.

Born in Skopje in the Republic of Macedonia, Tomislav Dimov began performing in earnest at age 14 and appeared many times as a soloist with the Macedonian National Philharmonic Orchestra, playing violin concertos of Lalo, Mendelssohn, Mozart and Tchaikovsky, and won First Prizes at national competitions. He moved to the United States in 1997. Mr. Dimov has performed as a guest soloist with Philharmonic Orchestras in the Europe, Asia and America. He recently held a Solo Recital in Toronto, Canada and performed as a soloist with the Butler County Symphony. He has held concerts for the Kent State University-Ashtabula Concert Series and made a concert tour through Western Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Mr. Dimov has also made solo concert tours in United States, Canada, France, Ukraine, Russia, Italy, Hungary, Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovenia, Yugoslavia and Macedonia.

Through the years, Dimov has been a member of many orchestras, including: the Czech Radio Symphony, the Macedonian Philharmonic and the Grand Canary Philharmonic Orchestra.

He is currently Concertmaster of the Butler County Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Director and Conductor of The Pittsburgh Youth Chamber Soloists. He is a busy teacher and serves on the faculty of St. Vincent College in Latrobe and Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.

From 2003 till 2005, Dr. Dimov served as a head of the String Program for the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts.
Mr. Dimov is fluent in more than 10 languages. He has been the subject of feature stories on Macedonian Radio and TV, Yugoslav Radio, Radio Belgrade, Vijesnik (Croatia), Czech Radio, WQED (Pittsburgh) and WQLN (Erie). He has also been featured in The Wall Street Journal and In Pittsburgh (a city magazine).

For more information, please visit Mr. Dimov at www.tomislavdimov.com