About
Pianist Dimitri Dover has performed as recitalist and chamber musician in venues such as New York’s Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, and Park Avenue Armory, as well as Zipper Hall (Los Angeles), Segerstrom Hall (Orange County), and throughout the USA, Canada, and Austria. Based in New York, his recent appearances there include American Opera Projects, Brooklyn Art Song Society, Chelsea Music Festival, Cutting Edge Concerts, Joy in Singing, Met Opera Rising Stars, and The Song Continues. Mr. Dover has performed in the composer’s presence the works of Thomas Adès, Valerie Coleman, George Crumb, Daniel Davis, Herschel Garfein, Jake Heggie, Libby Larsen, John Musto, André Previn, Shulamit Ran, Kaija Saariaho, and Chris Theofanidis, among many others.
In 2016, Mr. Dover joined the music staff of The Metropolitan Opera, where he has served as assistant conductor for Semiramide, Cendrillon, Saariaho’s L’Amour de Loin and Adès’s The Exterminating Angel, in which he also performed as piano soloist. He holds degrees from Harvard University, Peabody Conservatory, and The Juilliard School, where he has also served as staff pianist, coach, and Collaborative Piano department coordinator. A graduate of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Program, he has also received summer fellowships from Tanglewood and Aspen, as well as Songfest at Colburn, where now serves as faculty coach.