Theophanis Dymiotis *95

Theophanis Dymiotis died in a car accident March 10, 2007, after a performance with the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, when an oncoming driver ran head-on into his car.

A musician who excelled both as a composer and violinist, Dymiotis was born in Cyprus in 1965 and was graduated with honors from Cambridge University and from Princeton with a Ph.D in music composition.

After Princeton, he was an assistant professor at Goucher College, and, more recently, an adjunct professor at MacDaniel College. He was a member of the Annapolis-based Mariner String Quartet and co-concertmaster and composer-in-residence with the Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra.

His music was performed in Europe and in the United States, and won prizes in numerous competitions. According to Professor Michael Wachtel of Princeton’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, “It is truly a loss to contemporary music that his career has been cut short in so tragic a fashion. [He] was an unforgettable person — brilliant, witty, and wholly unpretentious.”

Survivors include his mother, Stella Dymiotou; a brother, Petros Dymiotis; a sister, Eleni Dymiotou; and his partner, Caitlin Patton. The burial took place in Cyprus.