Employees

prof.

Dina Yoffe

piano

Laureate of the First Prize at the International Schumann Piano Competition, Laureate of the 9th International Chopin Piano Competition, Honorary Member of the Chopin Society in Warsaw, Guest Professor at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, currently Professor at Katarina Gurska Centro Superior in Madrid and Professor of the EuroArts Academy.

Born in Riga (Latvia), Dina Yoffe began her musical education at the renowned Emil Darzin School of Music in her hometown, and later continued at the Central Music School in Moscow. She graduated from the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory under Professor Vera Gornostayeva, one of the most prominent representatives of the legendary Heinrich Neuhaus school.

Dina Yoffe’s concert activity is widely known across many continents and countries, including Europe, the USA, Canada, Japan, and others. Among the most significant highlights of her international career are performances with distinguished orchestras such as the NHK Symphony Orchestra under Neville Marriner, the Moscow Philharmonic under Valery Gergiev and Dmitri

Kitayenko, the Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra under James DePreist, Kremerata Baltica under Gidon Kremer, the Moscow Soloists under Yuri Bashmet, Sinfonia Varsovia under Jacek Kaspszyk, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the European Soloists Orchestra (Luxembourg), and the Bruno Walter Symphony Orchestra.

Dina Yoffe frequently gives masterclasses in France, Germany, and at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Since 2000, she has served as a guest professor at the Summit Music Festival in New York and has been a guest professor at Yamaha Master Classes in Paris, New York, Hamburg, and Tokyo. She has also participated in numerous international music festivals in Europe, Japan, and the United States.

Thanks to her extensive experience, she has been named an Honorary Member of the Japan Piano Teachers Association and serves as Artistic Director of the Musical Summer International Festival and Masterclasses in Málaga, Spain.