Kazakh-British pianist Dina Duisen was born into a family of musicians in Almaty, Kazakhstan. She studied there and in the USA (Artist Diploma) before completing a Master of Arts Degree in Performance at the Royal Academy of Music and graduating with distinction. She is a major prize-winner at many piano competitions, including the 29th International Piano Competition in Senigallia, the Shabyt International Competition, the National Competition of Kazakhstan and the International Musician of the 21st Century Competition. Dina has also participated in a number of international music festivals in Europe, the USA and Asia, including IMS Prussia Cove Masterclasses and Open Chamber Music, Rome Music Festival and the Oxford International Piano Festival. Twice Dina was one of eight pianists selected to participate in Sergei Babayan’s International Piano Academy at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Dina gave the Asian premier of Mazurkas by British composer, Thomas Adès. She has been the resident class pianist for violin and viola classes at IMS Prussia Cove, Casalmaggiore International Music Festival, Jiafeng Chen International Summer Music Course at St Hilda’s in Oxford, currently working at the Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music. Dina joined Sinfonia Cymru for Twisted Rhythms: Mark-Anthony Turnage Birthday Concert at the Vibrate Festival. Dina was invited to play with the Mercury Quartet at George Enescu Festival. She has performed at the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham, at Milton Court, at the Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall, as well as the 20th Anniversary Concert of the Oxford Piano Festival. In October, 2018 she made her debut at Cadogan Hall in a dramatised concert ‘Byron: Angel & Outcast” with actors Simon Russell Beale & Rob Heaps returning following year to play Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the Pico Players orchestra. Dina regularly works with violinist Nicola Benedetti.

She has released her solo debut album Mazurkas from Chopin to Adès which was recorded at Kings Place with the Grammy-award winning producer Andrew Keener.