He has appeared with the orchestra at their summer venue, the Blossom Festival, performing Koussevitsky's Concerto for Double Bass. He attended
Northwestern University, where he studied with
Jeff Bradetich. Before joining the
Cleveland Orchestra, he served as the principal bassist of the
San Antonio Symphony, and section bass in the Grant Park Symphony and the
Seattle Symphony. Dimoff has presented master classes at the
Manhattan School of Music and several universities. He was formerly the head of the double bass department at the
Cleveland Institute of Music, with fellow Cleveland Orchestra bassist Scott Dixon. He is currently the head of the double bass program at the
University of Michigan. ==References==