Dina Yoffe, originally from Riga (Latvia), graduated from
the Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music in Moscow, under
the tutelage of Professor Vera Gornostayeva.
Yoffe is a top prize-winner at the R. Schumann in Germany
and the prestigious F. Chopin Competition in Warsaw.
Participant at international music festivals in Europe,
Japan and the USA. Honorary member of Japan Piano
Teachers Association, Artistic Director of Festival and
Master Classes at "Musical Summer" in Malaga, Spain.
Among the high points of her international career are
concerts with outstanding orchestras, such as the Israel
Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta, NHK under Neville
Marriner, the Moscow Philharmonic under Valery Gergiev
and Dmitri Kitayenko, Tokyo Orchestra under James De
Priest, "Kremerata Baltica” under Gidon Kremer, "Moscow
Soloist" under Yuri Bashmet and Sinfonia Varsovia under
Jerzy Kaspszyk.
Currently, Yoffe is Professor at the Talent Music Academy
in Brescia, Italy. Former Professor at the Rubin Academy
of Music in Tel-Aviv University and Visiting Professor at
Aichi University of Arts, Japan. She is regularly invited
to serve as a jury member of acclaimed international
piano competitions such as Cleveland (USA), Hamamatsu
(Japan), PTNA (Japan), Chopin (Warsaw), Liszt (Germany),
Maria Canals (Spain).
Her students are winners of piano competitions. Many of
them are teaching in Music Academies in the world.