Dhyan Toffolo, violin

Dhyan Toffolo was born in 1982 in São Paulo. He began his musical studies when he was only 2 years old and chose the violin at four. At the age of eight, he entered the Tatuí Conservatory, São Paulo, and completed his studies at the age of sixteen. She was the shoulder of the Sorocaba Symphony Orchestra, São Paulo. He participated in important music courses and festivals in several Brazilian cities, as well as the Youth Orchestra of the Americas.

It has been perfected in courses abroad, such as Laboratorio Musicali I was in Cortanze - Italy and the Exchange Visitors Program at Georgia University - USA.

Dhyan Toffolo taught violin at the Sorocaba Musical Institute, gave master classes in violin and viola at the 21º Winter Festival of São João Del-Rey and master classes in camera music at the Mayor University in Santiago - Chile.

In 2003 he won the special award "Ole Bohn" in the Paulo Bosisio International Contest. In 2005 he won another award in the same competition. In 2009 he participates in the judging committee of this same contest.

Dhyan completed his undergraduate studies in 2007, in the class of Paulo Bosisio, at the University of Rio de Janeiro - UNIRIO.

As a soloist, he performed the Concerto Grosso and the four stations of Vivaldi, Mendelssohn's Concerto in D minor, Rondo by Schubert, Concerto nº1 by Max Bruch and the Concerto in D minor by Tchaikovsky, accompanied by several orchestras from Brazil.

Currently Dhyan Toffolo is a member of the Petrobras Symphony Orchestra, a founding member of the Uirapuru Quartet (formed in 2002) as a violinist and a member of the Bosisio Quartet as a violist.