An Avery Fisher Career Grant Recipient in 2014 and First prize winner at the 2008 Primrose International Viola Competition, Belgian violist Dimitri Murrath has had his debut recitals in Jordan Hall (Boston), Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and Royal Festival Hall (London), and Palais des Beaux Arts (Brussels). Since 2023, he is a member of the Esmé Quartet.
Dimitri Murrath is on the viola faculty of San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Born in Brussels in 1982, Dimitri began his musical education at the Yehudi Menuhin School studying with Natalia Boyarsky, and went on to work in London with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He graduated with an Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory as a student of Kim Kashkashian.