Lora Dimitrova - News & Events
Forthcoming Events
Lora had to undergo major surgery twice in 2024 but is now back to teaching and performing. If you are interested in having individual lessons or joining the Advanced Piano Maestros masterclasses (see below), please get in touch. Events planned for 2025 are:
- Lora has extended her popular master-class style sessions for advanced piansts (Advanced Piano Maestros, APM) to 4 groups which meet either on alternate Mondays or alternate Tuesdays. The groups are based in All Saints Church, Orpington, using their beautiful Steinway Grand piano. If you're an adult or student pianist of concert level standard and would like to join one of our groups, please get in touch. See APM Classes for further details and a video.
- Saturday 7th September 2025 - solo recital in All Saints Church, Orpington as part of the PianoPlus International Recital Series. You can purchase tickets on the door or in advance from this Eventbrite link. EPTA Members get a discount on adult tickets: apply code EPTAPLUS25. This follows a masterclass there in the afternoon.
- Thursday 25th September - recital in Gibralter (solo piano and voice and piano) with the tenor Nicholas Martin. Their concerts are full of Argentinian songs with beautiful piano accompaniments written specifically for Lora. You can purchase tickets on the door or in advance from this BuyTickets link. You can see videos of Nicholas and Lora performing on this web site.
- The recording engineer Peter Nicholls has recently been transferring and preserving old digital audio tape recordings onto computer and has kindly provided recordings he made of the violinist Hanna Weinmeister and Lora performing live at the Wigmore Hall shortly after they won the international Parkhouse Award for chamber music back in the day. This includes sonatas by Schubert, Poulenc, Prokofiev and Beethoven (the Kreutzer sonata) as well as the ever-popular Méditation from Massenet's opera Thaïs. You can hear these recordings of Hanna and Lora on this web site.
- Videos of Lora performing Mozart's D minor piano concerto with the Sinfonietta Vidin in two of the 2025 concerts she gave in Bulgaria are now available on this web site through the Live Concertos page.
Advanced Students
Lora is now offering intensive half day or full day blocks of private teaching for advanced students as
well as the usual 2 hour lessons.
Previous Events
In April and May 2025, Lora was busy in Bulgaria where was engaged to adjudicate at the Viva Piano international competition in Sofia and to play Mozart's D minor piano concerto with the Sinfonietta Vidin orchestra in Sofia, Plovdiv and Vidin. She also gave a Number of TV and radio interviews and performances.
In October 2023, Lora gave a series of memorable concerts with the Quattro Piano+ Group and Vidin Philharmonic Orchestra in both Sofia and Vidin in Bulgaria. This was Lora's first time performing in Vidin - a stunningly beautiful part of Bulgaria.
