Dino Imeri

A Macedonian pianist born in 1990, Dino Imeri studied at the Ilija Nikolovski-Luj music school in Skopje with Lyudmila Romanova, then at the Faculty of Music with Boris Romanov, and took his master's degree with the highest mark in work with Simon Trpčeski. He plays at home and abroad — the Ohrid Summer Festival, concerts with the Macedonian Philharmonic and the Florence Symphony, recitals in Skopje, Bitola and Ohrid — and gave the French première of Damir Imeri's Piano Concerto with the Strasbourg Philharmonic. He has also performed at the Esterházy Palace at Eisenstadt, the Liszt Centre at Raiding, the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb, the Red Hall in Pristina. A two-year contract with the European Piano Program followed in 2010; in 2013 he took the Virtuosi award in its young musician category and released a disc of Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms and Liszt. He has played chamber music with the violinist Bojan Ilkoski, the pianist Maria Gyozevska and the cellists Kiril Yosifov and Corinne Morris, and Colette Mourey, John Carollo and Damir Imeri have written for him. He has taught at the State Music and Ballet Centre in Skopje and at the Faculty of Music of Ss. Cyril and Methodius University. Slovenia and Austria have heard him too, in the Paul Gulda presents… series, and he has recorded for Macedonian National Television, ORF and France 3. Earlier prizes include first place at the national music competition in 2000 and again in 2007, second prize at the Mozartiana-M festival in 2006 and first prize in the polyphony competition of the Skopje Faculty of Music Arts in 2009. In 2014 he opened the Days of Macedonian Music with the Macedonian Philharmonic under Thomas Herzog in the first performance of Aleksandar Džambazov's Rhapsody for Skopje, and played Beethoven's Fourth Concerto and the Damir Imeri concerto under Clemens Schuldt in the same spring. The works dedicated to him are Mourey's Logos 1, Carollo's Dino's Dilemma and Imeri's Suite for Piano, and he appears on Corinne Morris's album Macedonian Session.