Dina Yoffe – Piano

...Yoffe is a performer who translates the manual to 'the language of living'...

Dina Yoffe was born in Riga (Latvia). Graduated from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music in Moscow, under the tutelage of Professor Vera Gornostayeva, one of the most important proponents of the legendary Heinrich Neuhaus school. 

She is well known through out many continents in countries such as France, Germany, England, Russia, Israel, Japan, USA, Finland and Poland; has concerts with outstanding orchestras: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under Zubin Mehta,  Japanese Radio Orchestra NHK under Neville Marriner, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra under Valery Gergiev and Dmitri Kitayenko, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra under James DePriest, Kremerata Baltica Chamber  Orchestra under Gidon Kremer, Moscow Soloist under Yuri Bashmet, Orchestra Sinfonia Varsovia under Jacek Kaspszyk.

In chamber music festivals she played together with many internationally renowned musicians, such as Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Viktor Tretiakov, Vadim Repin, Michael Vaiman, Mario Brunello and others.

She participated in famous events: The International  Chopin Festival in Duszniki, Zdrój, Eurolesia Festival Wroclaw (honorary chairman Kurt Masur) in Poland, F. Chopin Festival in Geneva, Basel (Switzerland), Music Festival in Bayreuth (Germany), concert tours in  Japan, Elba Music Festival (Italy), Summit Music Festival (USA),  New York Classical Concerts - Bargemusic.

Dina Yoffe giving numerous master classes in France, Germany, at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Since 2000 she is guest professor at the Summit Music Festival in New York, at the Yamaha Master Classes in Paris, New York, Hamburg and Tokyo.

Currently she is professor at the Anton Rubinstein International Academy (Germany), artistic director of Festival and Master Classes in Moulin d'Andé (France).

Prizes

  • International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw - second prize, 1975
  • Robert Schumann International Competition in Zwickau - second prize, 1974

Records