Ms. Dinova will perform Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2 this weekend, October 19th and 20th with the Cleveland Philharmonic. Click Here for tickets.
Cleveland-based pianist Halida Dinova has performed and recorded with some of Europe’s finest orchestras. As a piano recitalist, she has performed cycles of works by Schubert, Chopin, and Scriabin and a series of concerts of 20th-century music. A champion of contemporary works, she has presented innovative programs that include the works of Sofia Gubaidulina, Alfred Schnittke, and György Ligeti.
She has toured North and South America, Europe, and Russia, given recitals in cities such as Berlin, London, St. Petersburg, Wellington, and Auckland, chamber music concerts at Orford International Festival (Canada), Edinburgh International Festival (Scotland), Wonfurt International Festival (Germany), Sala Beethoven (Mexico). She can be heard on the recordings made for DOREMI NAXOS, NAVONA, CHANDOS, and CANTIUS CLASSICS, for which she recorded Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto with the St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gustavo Plis-Sterenberg.
As Donald Rosenberg wrote in The Plain Dealer, “The Brahms performance on this recording proves that the pianist can scale the musical heights. It is bold, deeply poetic reading, marked by a technical command that many pianists couldn’t muster.”
The premiere of the piano concerto by the American composer Dennis Eberhard (written especially for Halida) in 2002 garnered international attention and has been the subject of an award-winning documentary film by Laura Paglin, Shadow of the Swan.
In 2003, she gave the Russian premiere of two of Ernest Bloch’s concertos for piano and orchestra. She recorded them for CHANDOS with the St. Petersburg State Capella orchestra conducted by Alexander Tchernushenko. According to Gramophone magazine, “Dinova plays with panache and conviction…” Her first Scriabin album on the Canadian label Doremi earned her a reputation as a “Scriabinist destined to lead all others” (American Record Guide).
In 2012, Halida Dinova recorded a solo Album of piano music, “Music That Tells Stories,” inspired and produced by David Yost. “…a mesmerizing interpreter…Balakirev’s Islamey is filled with thrilling virtuosity tempered with radiantly observed lyricism in the central part,” wrote Howard Smith in Music & Vision UK.
Halida completed a DMA (Post-Graduate Performance Course in Piano) at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg, where she studied with legendary pianist Anatol Ugorski. Previously, she had earned a Master’s degree in Piano performance and pedagogy in her home city of Kazan, where she studied at the Nazib Zhiganov Conservatory under Natalia Fomina, a pupil of Heinrich Neuhaus. She earned an Artist Diploma from the Cleveland Institute of Music in piano performance as a student of Paul Schenly. She also studied organ as a secondary area under Prof. Adeline Hus. In 2018, she defended her Ph.D. dissertation “The Piano in the Works of Ernest Bloch” at the Kazan State Conservatory/Moscow VAK, earning the title Doctor of Philosophy in Musicology.
She has worked at the music department of Cleveland State University as an accompanist in vocal and instrumental departments and performed Saint-Saens Piano Concerto number 4 with the CSU Symphony orchestra conducted by Dr.Victor Liva in October 2019.
Now, Ms. DInova is teaching privately in the East Side of Cleveland and on the piano faculty at the Westlake Music Academy while performing in the US and abroad. She made her New York Carnegie Recital debut in October 2022, performing solo and in a piano duo with pianist Dr. Irina Moreland.
She has taught piano majors at Kazan State Conservatory, International summer schools at the Central Conservatory in Beijing, and the University of Canterbury and Massey University (New Zealand).
Halida Dinova is a Steinway Artist; for more information www.halidadinova.com
Ms. Dinova will perform Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2 this weekend, October 19th and 20th with the Cleveland Philharmonic. Click Here for tickets.