Originally from Riga, Latvia, pianist Dina
Joffe studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow as a pupil of Vera
Gornostaeva, one of the most important proponents
of the Heinrich Neihaus school of pianism.
In 1974 she took second prize at the International Schumanns Competition in Zwickau,
Germany, and in the following year she won the silver medal at the pres
tigious Chopins Competition in Warsaw, Poland.
Since 1989 Dina Joffe and her husband,
violinist Michael Vaiman, resided in Tel Aviv, Israel.Dina Joffe's profound and subtle interpretations
have kept the critics searching for
superlatives. From the very beginning of her career, reviews have included
expressions such as "a unique talent", "the fascination of a
master", "a genius", and a virtuoso". The public has responded to her "highly intelligent and
deeply felt interpretation" with
"beguilement", "enthusiasm", and "utterly frenetic
applause".Dina Joffe's concert engagements have taken her to many different
countries; in recent years she has appeared
as piano soloist and in recitals together with her husband in the
United States, Japan, Germany, France, Russia, Israel, the Ukraine, and
Hungary.
Among the high points of her international
career were concerts with outstanding orchestras such as the
Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta, the Japanese Radio Orchestra (N.H.K.) under Neville Marriner, the Moscow Philharmonic
under Valerie Gergiev, and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. In the course of the
Chopin Festival in Japan, Dina Joffe
gave six piano recitals with different programs in each of the cities
Nagoya, Osaka, Tokyo, Yokohama, and Sapporo. The concert series was filmed and broadcasted by Japanese National
Television.
In the 1996/97 concert season, she will be
performing in Japan as soloist with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and the
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1996 she will be giving a number of concerts
in Europe as well.Dina Joffe is professor of piano at the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel
Aviv. She is currently teaching as a guest
professor at the National Aichi University of Fine Art and Music in Nagoya (Japan).
In the past few years she has held master courses
in Portogruaro, Italy (1994); at the Stolarsky School of Music in Odessa, the Ukraine (1994); and at the State Academy of
music in Karlsruhe, Germany (1995).
Dina Joffe has numerous radio and commercial
recordings to her credit. Her performance on CD of Frederic Chopin’s 24
Preludes (VD-VDC-1334) or 19 Waltzes and the Fantasie in F-Minor (CD-VICC-63)
are considered to be consummate interpretations.