"I had the pleasure to listen to the Chamber Ensemble Te Deum Adoramus on 12 September 2007 during the festival “Days of chamber music – Gabrovo”. Excellent vocal work of the conductor, extremely high quality and inspired music making and what is most important, brave and very interesting repertoire findings, which this small female choir demonstrates. I would like to add to all that I have already said the extremely stylish culture and mobility, that they demonstrate on their concerts, and last but not least, the modern criteria, which they apply in their sound production.”

--Ivan Stoyanov, music director of the Gabrovo chamber orchestra and director of the festival “Days of chamber music – Gabrovo”, September 2007

 

“A real surprise and an emphasis in the concert program, at least for me, was the outstanding performance of a young ensemble – Te Deum Adoramus conducted by Teodora Dimitrova. The choir performed Sephardic and Ashkenazi songs, recreated by acad. Nikolay Kaufmann. The serenades, duets, the cycle “From Auschwitz1943” and the wedding songs were wildly applauded by the audience in the hall.”

--“Jewish News” newspaper, Sofia, September 2007     

 

"I had the pleasure to listen your concert on 28 October 2006 in the Theater in the town of Getxo (Spain). I have to say sincerely – I was fascinated by you. I know very well what I am talking about, because I am very devoted to choral music in all its forms and your concert seemed to me wonderful and extremely difficult. That is why I have to pay tribute to your performance. I think that you are an extraordinary conductor, with unquestioned authority – a reason for which all the girls from your choir were perfect. As a conclusion I would like to say that the concert was wonderful and I would love to enjoy it again. Kindest regards! " 

--José Ramón Rebate, November 2006

 

"When a choir has only twelve women, as in the case of this ensemble, conducted by the talented and suggestive young Bulgarian conductor Teodora Dimitrova, then it is rapidly evident whether all the voices are of high solo quality and able to replace and represent entire choral groups. Here this really was the case. Formed in a classical way, the ensemble possesses virtuoso genealogy and has a tendency for choral effects and performing innovations, all the while staying within the spirit of the great Bulgarian choral tradition, one of the most important and most prolific in this part of Europe.

To listen to Bulgarian composers in the performance of a female ensemble such as this is certainly a privilege, and one understood very well by the audience, who followed the concert of Bulgarian women with unanimous sympathy."

-- Dr Branka Radovic, musicologist(Belgrade), July 2004

 

T"he choir Te Deum Adoramus performed compositions in a very pleasant manner, with precise interpretation, a sequence of styles, and a homogeneous choral texture in vertical and horizontal organization of a score. Thanks to the great aesthetic appeal of the choir and its great interpretation of the programme, the audience was not sparing with its applause.

Teodora Dimitrova proved herself an extraordinary organizer and a programme performer of a high artistic level. Her calm and precise movements, as well as her mental suggestion, had a magic influence on choral singers."

-- Stojan Stojkov, composer, F.Y.R.O.M, July 2004

 

"The performance by the twelve members of the female Chamber Ensemble Te Deum adoramus from Sofia, established and conducted by Teodora Dimitrova, left a very good impression. If we were to give a mark for the technical value of the programme, then this concert by the choir would deserve the highest grade. The pieces were also full of effects, in the positive sense of the word. Teodora Dimitrova sets her choir tasks with exceptional accuracy. She is creative, sensitive and determined. She is in complete control of the form."

-- Elzbieta Wieszdordt, conductor, Poland, July 2004

 

"The female choir "Te Deum Adoramus" conducted by Teodora Dimitrova was applauded at a concert dedicated to [the National Holiday of] March 3 held in the Matiash Cathedral in Budapest. This was the first time in the last 17 years voices of Bulgarian singers filled the most beautiful church of the Hungarian capital. The performers, singing catholic and orthodox masterpieces by Haidn, Verdi, Kodai, Rahmaninov, Dobri Hristov, Georgi Popov impressed the audience including high-ranking administrative and diplomatic officials, Hungarian cultural figures, and Bulgarian students."

-- "Democracy" newspaper, March 1, 2002

 

"The performance of the famous Bulgarian Female Chamber Ensemble "Te Deum Adoramus" absolutely amazed the audience with its sensitive quality of interpretation, this way proving that it belongs among the greatest ensembles of this difficult kind of choral music."

-- "Thessalia" newspaper, April 20, 2001