Halida Dinova

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, 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. According to Gramophone magazine, “Dinova plays with panache and conviction...” Her best-known recording is a Solo Album“Halida Dinova plays Scriabin” on Canadian label Doremi, it earned her a reputation of a “Scriabinist destined to lead all others”- American Record Guide.

Halida Dinova performs also as part of the piano duo with her friend from student years, Dr. Irina Moreland, professor of piano at Colorado Christian University, with whom she studied with in the studio under Anatol Ugorski in St. Petersburg Conservatory in Russia. In 2022 this duo performed successfully in Carnegie Hall in New York. 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 Masters degree 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, also studying organ as a secondary area under Prof. Adeline Huss. In 2018 she defended her Ph.D. dissertation "The Piano in the Works of Ernest Bloch" at the Moscow VAK, earning the title “Kandidat Nauk” in music history which was confirmed in US as Ph.D in Musicology. She has taught at Cleveland State University, taught the piano majors in Kazan Nazib Zhiganov conservatory also in the International summer schools: the Beijing China Conservatory as well as at the University of Canterbury and Massey University (New Zealand). Halida Dinova is a Steinway Artist , actively performing and teaching in US and internationally.