Dina Joffe

Dina Joffe was born in 1952 in Riga

Dina Joffe was born in Riga, Latvia, on 18 December 1952. She began her music studies at the Emīls Dārziņš Special School of Music in Riga. She then studied at the Central Music School in Moscow.

In 1967 she won her first award, Concertino Prague. She took 2nd prize at the Chopin competition and at the Robert Schumann competition. In 1976 she graduated from the Moscow Conservatory, where she studied with Vera Gornostayeva.

She has played with orchestras such as the Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta and the NHK orchestra. She gave recitals of all of Chopin's works in Tokyo, Osaka and Yokohama, which NHK filmed and broadcast. In 2013 she played at the Royal Palace in The Hague for Queen Beatrix.

From 1989 to 1996 she was a professor at the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University. From 1995 to 2000 she was a visiting professor at Aichi University of Arts in Japan. She teaches master classes and has served on juries of international piano competitions.