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Dina Vainshtein

Pianist

Russian-born pianist Dina Vainshtein has performed extensively throughout North America, Europe and Russia, at such prestigious venues as the Alice Tully Hall and Weill Hall in New York City, Jordan Hall in Boston and the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. She has degrees from the Gnesins’ Institute of Music in Moscow, the Cleveland Institute of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music. Her principal teachers were Boris Berlin, Arthur Aksenov and Vivian Hornik Weilerstein.

In 1998 she received a Special Prize for Best Collaboration at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. She also won prizes at the 1997 Schubert and Music of Modernity International Competiton in Austria, and the All-Union Russian Piano Competition in 1993. She has worked as a collaborative pianist for the studios of renowned pedagogues such as Donald Weilerstein, Kim Kashkashian and Miriam Fried, as well as for Walnut Hill School and the New England Conservatory. She continues to work closely with many young rising performers.

She has performed at the Ravinia Festival, Caramoor Festival, Sunriver festival, Music Academy of the West, (Santa Barbara) Meadowmount and the Heifitz International Music Institute. She has appeared as a soloist with I Musici de Montreal, under the direction of Yuli Turovsky, and as a guest artist with the Borromeo String Quartet. She has also given live performances on WGBH (Boston), WFMT (Chicago) and for NPR’s Performance Today series. Her 2002 recording with violinist Frank Huang for the Naxos label – Violin Recital: Fantasies – received critical acclaim.

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