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Dinara Klinton, piano
After sharing the top prize at the 2006 Busoni Piano Competition at the age of 18, Dinara embarked on a busy international concert schedule, appearing at numerous festivals, including the "Progetto Martha Argerich" in Lugano and "La Roque d'Anthéron" in France. She has performed at many of the world's major concert venues, such as the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, the Barbican Centre and Wigmore Hall in London; the Berliner Philharmonie; Elbphilharmonie Hamburg; Gewandhaus Leipzig; New York's 92Y; Cleveland's Severance Hall; and Tokyo's Sumida Triphony Hall. Her concerto engagements include performances with The Philharmonia, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, and others.
Dinara combines her performing career with teaching duties. She has been piano professor at Royal College of Music and the Yehudi Menuhin School, and Associate Professor of Piano at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
As a recording artist, she has received widespread critical acclaim. Her album of Liszt's Études d'exécution transcendante, released by the German label GENUIN classics, garnered dazzling reviews and was selected by BBC Music Magazine as Recording of the Month. Dinara's debut album, Music of Chopin and Liszt, was recorded at the age of 16 with the American label DELOS. Her other albums include a CD of Chopin's music by The Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Poland, the complete Prokofiev Piano Sonatas released by Piano Classics, and Balakirev's First Piano Concerto with the Niederrheinische Sinfoniker.
Dinara's musical education began at the age of five in her native Kharkiv, Ukraine. She graduated with highest honours from the Moscow Central Music School under Valery Piassetski and the Moscow State Conservatory P.I. Tchaikovsky under Eliso Virsaladze. She then completed her master's degree and was Benjamin Britten Fellow during her Artist Diploma course at the Royal College of Music, where she studied with Dina Parakhina. Dinara has also attended masterclasses at the Lake Como Piano Academy and worked with Boris Petrushansky at the Imola Piano Academy.