Our Directors
Dimitrie Leivici – Founding Director, EU & USA
Dimitrie J. Leivici studied at the Vienna Conservatory and the University of Vienna, where he graduated with his Diploma in 1976. Enthusiastic Reviews in Austria, where at the age of 17 he already performed concerti by Paganini and Wieniawsky, were proof of his musicality and capabilities as a musician. After his graduation, he moved to the USA and continued his solo career beginning in Los Angeles.
Subsequent concert tours with violin concerti by Beethoven, Sibelius and Tschaikovsky led him throughout Europe, including solo performances with leading orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic and the Rumanian Philharmonic as well as numerous appearances throughout the continent of North America (San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, Washington, D.C.).
Dimitrie J. Leivici held the position for violin instructor and chamber music at the California State University as well as being chairman for strings and Chamber Music for the »California Association of Professional Music Teachers«.
He is one of the most sought after Hollywood studio violinists, having participated on over 1.000 movie scores and sound tracks including projects such as Avatar, Titanic, Pirates of the Caribbean, Toy Story, Indiana Jones, etc.
He has organized Master Classes for world famous artists such as Paul Badura Skoda and Ruggiero Ricci. Dimitrie J. Leivici was also featured as master clinician in workshops and violin master classes including at the University of Vienna in 2008.
Being a teacher and mentor for young talents, Hollywood Music Workshop is one of his big projects that connects him closely to his homeland of Austria.
Lilo Bellotto – Founding Director EU
Lilo Bellotto ´s passion revolves around music and the arts. She completed her studies in Classical Ballet, Classical Piano and has had extensive vocal training.During her stage career, she was featured in leading roles at the»Theater an der Wien« and »Theater des Westens« Berlin, in productions of »Fiddler on the Roof«, »No No Nanette«, »Cats«, etc.
She appeared during the festival »Wiener Festwochen« as the female lead in the well known play by Neil Simon »They are playing our Song« along side the actor Klaus Wildbolz, additional engagements include performances at the Theater in der Josefstadt.
Having been involved with music and the arts throughout her life and due to the fact that her father was the renowned artist agent Rudolf Raab, she is very familiar with this genre in general.
Lilo Bellotto currently hosts a radio show broadcast on the classical radio station Radio Stephansdom and has been producing and presenting her own radio broadcast on film music since January 2012.
Lilo Bellotto and Dimitrie J. Leivici are the organizers of Hollywood Music Workshop in Baden, Austria, having successfully established the workshop as a permanent fixture on the European Continent since 2009.
Joanne Leivici – Administrative manager USA
Joanne Leivici was a semi-professional musician who studied the violin with Manuel Compinsky, Endre Granat and Mehli Mehta.
Her professional career took her in a different direction into accounting and finance and financial analysis with a large corporation formerly known as TRW and later, Experian. She has an appreciation for the mission of Hollywood Music Workshop USA and is an important component of its operations.
Scott Hosfeld – Co-Director, USA
Arts administrator, entrepreneur, violist/violinist, chamber musician, conductor, and educator Scott Coulston Hosfeld is known as an innovator who brings the highest-level performance of classical music to newsettings and new audiences. He is currently Festival Producer and General Manager of Classical Tahoe; an annual festival held each summer in Incline Village Nevada. The festival features a one-week intensive
Brubeck Jazz Summit and three weeks of spectacular classical music programs with some of the finest orchestral players in North America and Europe. He has founded and sustained youth orchestras, chamber music organizations and arts institutions in five states, with particular emphasis on musical performance and education programs. Equally at home on the classical stage and the sound stage, his career is a blueprint for next-generation artists navigating a changing professional landscape.
He has served as Director of Orchestras and Ensembles for the Idyllwild Arts Foundation and Academy, which is recognized as one of the best arts high schools in the United States. As Director he conducted the String and Symphony orchestra ensembles. He helped established a partnership between Gustavo Dudamel’s Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA) program, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Idyllwild Arts
Academy to bring young aspiring professionals from highly disadvantaged backgrounds to the Academy. His work with Idyllwild follows from prior work with youth orchestras and youth ensembles that he established in California, Virginia, and Washington states.
Hosfeld was the founding Executive and Artistic Director of the Icicle Creek Center for the Arts in Leavenworth, Washington. Hosfeld’s vision enabled ICCA to grow from an international annual summer festival into a year-round chamber music and arts center, complete with 15 buildings dedicated to serious classical arts teaching and performance (including a concert hall and theatre) on a 9-acre campus. His decade-long tenure at ICMC made possible that organization’s still flourishing curriculum of intense chamber music and orchestral programs for elite professional and highly qualified student musicians in a unique alpine setting. The Icicle Creek Youth Symphony program grew out of his work at ICMC (now known as Icicle Arts) and continues to serve young musicians in Central Washington. Hosfeld is founder and conductor of the Malibu Coast Youth Symphony, established in 2009, and the Shenandoah Valley Youth
Symphony Orchestra (established in 1998).
As Music Director of the Malibu Coast Chamber Orchestra (MCCO), Malibu Concert on the Bluffs Orchestra, he creates performance opportunities for some of the Los Angeles’ area professional musicians drawing from the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra among others. Hosfeld has led concerti for premiere international concert soloists Nathaniel Rosen, Camilla Wicks, Andrew Shulman, Paul Coletti, Delores Stevens, Steven Doane, Darol Anger, Spencer Martin, and Mike Marshall, among others. His orchestral collaborations have included Academy Award Nominated film composer Marco Beltrami, actor Pierce Brosnan, film composer/singer-songwriter Trevor Rabin and soloists from the New York City Ballet.
Hosfeld made his Carnegie Recital Hall Debut in 1980 as violist and founder of the Riverside String Quartet and won several Aspen Music Festival Fellowships. With the Val Coeur String Quartet, Hosfeld has toured the Soviet Union, Russia, Europe, Mexico, and Central and South America. Hosfeld has served as Faculty/Artist-in-Residence for the University of Arizona, Eastern Mennonite University, James Madison University, Louisiana State University, Central Washington University, Omaha Conservatory of Music at the University of Nebraska and Creighton University, and California State University at Long Beach and continues to direct his conducting and chamber music clinics across the United States. Hosfeld has served as Music Director and Supervisor on such important historical film restorations as the vintage silent classics, “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” (1917) directed by Marshall Neilan and starring Mary Pickford; and “Quality Street” (1927) directed by Sydney Franklin and starring Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel. He works in Hollywood as a producer and studio musician on hundreds of film and television projects.
As a composer and music editor, he and his composer wife Maria Newman have founded Montgomery Arts House Productions. He has been recognized by the City of Malibu with the Dolphin award for work in the field of classical music performance and administration, which includes recognition from the California State Assembly, and California State Senator Henry Waxman. Hosfeld first learned violin in his hometown’s public school string program, and the opportunity to study while still in high school with violinist Camilla Wicks, who made her solo debut at age 13 with the New York Philharmonic and went on to become one of the first female violinists to establish an international solo career.
Rolf Gustavson – Executive Administrator EU & USA
Rolf Gustavson is an orchestrator and composer based in Helsinki, Finland, who studies composition at the Sibelius-Academy. He‘s a versatile artist and hard working assistant, best known for his work with Finnish feature films.
He started his musical journey at the age of 11 playing punk rock music which turned into composition lessons and academic studies with focus on classical music.
Even though he’s majoring in classical composition, Rolf has gained more interest as a film composer and a film music orchestrator. He has worked on a handful of Nordic feature films such as Land of Hope, The Potato Venture and The Innocents.
In addition to this he has composed a lot of music for the concert world, both orchestral and chamber music. His most significant orchestra commission has been for the centennial festivities of the Finnish Defence Forces.
He became acquainted with the Hollywood Music Workshop during the Orchestration & Arranging workshop held in Baden in 2019. He has worked as the executive administrator of the Hollywood Music Workshop since May 2020.
Michiel de Boer – Executive Manager EU & USA
Michiel de Boer is a dutch trumpet player and conductor graduated at the conservatories of Utrecht, Groningen and Amsterdam for his bachelor classical and jazz trumpet and master conducting.
In 2004 he received a scholarship to the Oberlin Conservatory to study with Roy Poper, Ken Larson and masterclasses of Malcolm McNabb. It was within this scholarship that his interest and love for film music was born as all of his teachers were active LA Studio players with over 300 recordings on their names.