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, and 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. As Donald Rosenberg wrote in The Plain Dealer, ”The Brahms performance on this recording proves that the pianist can scale the musical heights. It is bold, deeply poetic reading, marked by a technical command that many pianists couldn’t muster.”
The premiere of the piano concerto by the American composer Dennis Eberhard (written especially for Halida) in 2002 garnered international attention and has been the subject of an award-winning documentary film by Laura Paglin, Shadow of the Swan.More 
