Bojidar Dimov

Bojidar Dimov was born on 31 January 1935 in Lom on the Danube and died on 19 June 2003 in Cologne. The composer studied piano and composition in Sofia with Wesselin Stojanow and continued his training at the Vienna Academy of Music with Karl Schiske, Hanns Jelinek, Erwin Ratz and Friedrich Cerha; he also attended the Darmstädter Ferienkurse and the Kölner Kurse für Neue Musik. From 1968 he lived in Cologne, where he founded the ensemble trial and error in 1970 and taught composition at the Rheinische Musikschule, where he initiated the Praktikum für Neue Musik in 1972 and a youth ensemble for new music in 1980. His compositions range from experimental models of space and behaviour such as “Bonner Raumspiel” (1971) and “Kieler Signallandschaft” (1972) to chamber, orchestral and music theatre works such as the dance opera “Die Hochzeit von Susa” (1973); he was a recipient of the advancement prize of the Wiener Kunstfonds. From 1995 he taught composition at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf. He is represented as a composer on the Cybele album Incontri – Encounters (2000).