Dina Parakhina

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Dina Parakhina is a Russian pianist and teacher.

Biography

Born in Russia, Dina Parakhina studied at the Moscow Central School of Music with Tamara Bobovich and later at the

, and was the chair of the department for fifteen years.

Since moving to the United Kingdom and the appointment of BBC pianist in the early 1990s, Dina Parakhina has always combined teaching with an active performing career and has appeared frequently as a recitalist and soloist with major Russian and British orchestras at prestigious venues across the world, including the

Festival in Germany.

Parakhina is currently a Professor of Piano at the Royal College of Music^[1] in London, Royal Northern College of Music^[2] as well as the Chetham's School of Music^[3] in Manchester.

Discography

Parakhina's commercial recordings have received critical attention, including the Mendelssohn's Double Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 and Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Russian Bolshoi Theatre National Orchestra as well as Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2. She has also made a number of live broadcasts on the BBC radio 3.^{[citation needed]}

Selected solo recordings

• Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 28, op. 101/ Diabelli Variation op. 120
• Bach/Liszt - Fantasy and Fugue in G minor BWV 542 ^[4]
• Brahms - Handel Variations op. 24
• Scriabin - Sonata No. 3 in F sharp minor, op. 23
• Prokofiev - Sonata No. 7 in B flat, op. 87
• Rachmaninoff - Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, op. 36 (Original Version)/ Corelli Variations op. 42/ Melodie in E major, op. 3 no. 3
• Medtner - Piano Sonata, Op.25 no.1/ Piano Sonata, Op.25 no.2/ 6 Fairy Tales, op.51

References

External links

• Royal College of Music, London
• Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester
• Chetham's School of Music, Manchester
• [1]
• [2] Archived 2012-01-22 at the Wayback Machine