Dina Yoffe, also spelled Dina Jofe and Dina Joffe, is a Jewish Latvian pianist and pedagogue, born on 18 December 1952 in Riga, Soviet-occupied Latvia. She began her musical education at the Emīls Dārziņš Special School of Music in Riga and later continued at the Central Music School in Moscow as a particularly gifted pupil from Latvia.
She graduated from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow in 1976, where she studied with Professor Vera Gornostayeva, a leading representative of the Heinrich Neuhaus school. Even before completing her studies, Yoffe had already achieved major success in international competitions. She won her first musical award at Concertino Prague in 1967 at the age of fifteen, and later received second prizes at the IX Fryderyk Chopin Competition and the VI Robert Schumann Competition.
Yoffe developed an international concert career as a soloist and orchestral pianist. She has appeared with ensembles including the Israel Philharmonic, NHK, the Moscow Philharmonic, the Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica, Moscow Soloists, and Sinfonia Varsovia, working with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Neville Marriner, Valery Gergiev, Dmitri Kitayenko, James De Priest, Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, and Jerzy Kaspszyk.
Her recital activity has included appearances at the Chopin and his Europe Festival in Warsaw, the Chopin Festival in Duszniki, the Bayreuth music festival, the Elba Music Festival, and the Summit Music Festival in the United States. She has also performed in major venues such as the Barbican Centre in London, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Sala Verdi in Milan, the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, and Salle Pleyel in Paris. In 2013 she gave a concert with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century under Frans Brüggen at the Royal Palace in The Hague for Queen Beatrix.
Alongside her solo career, Yoffe has been active in chamber music festivals and has performed with musicians including Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Viktor Tretyakov, Vadim Repin, Daniel Vaiman, and Mario Brunello. She also presented recital cycles of all Chopin's works in Tokyo, Osaka, and Yokohama; these performances were filmed and broadcast by Japanese national television NHK.
Yoffe has remained internationally active as a pedagogue. She taught as Professor at the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel-Aviv University from 1989 to 1996 and was Visiting Professor at Aichi University of Arts in Japan from 1995 to 2000. She has given numerous master classes in France, Germany, Spain, at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and at the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg, and has served as guest professor for Yamaha master classes in Paris, New York, Hamburg, and Tokyo. She has also been a jury member at international piano competitions in Cleveland, Hamamatsu, Warsaw, Barcelona, and Weimar.
Her discography includes recordings of Chopin, Schumann, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Schubert, Franck, and Prokofiev. Among her releases are Chopin's 24 Preludes, the Fantasy in F minor and Waltzes, Schumann's Symphonic Etudes and Kreisleriana, recordings in the "Real Chopin" series, and live recordings featuring works by Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, and Prokofiev. These recordings reflect the central place of the Romantic piano repertoire in her artistic profile.
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