Dinu also received special prizes for outstanding academic results and had the opportunity to study with renowned musicians such as Leon Fleisher, Dmitri Bashkirov, Menahem Pressler, Julian Martin, Robert McDonald, Paul Coker and Philippe Cassard.
Since 2021, Dinu is Doctor of Music thanks to his doctoral thesis entitled “The Interpretation of Béla Bartók’s Musical Microcosm: Between the Elements of Musical Language and Artistic Expression”.
He has performed as a soloist with the main orchestras in Romania as well as with the Orchestra of the HEM of Geneva and the Orchestra of the Festival of Gijón-Candás. His musical career also includes participation in various international festivals such as the Verbier Festival UNLTD, Millennium Piano Festival (Gijón, Spain), Puplinge Classique (Switzerland), Lavaux Classic etc.
In 2007, he was invited to perform in the United States at the City College’s Shepard Hall in New York and the Asbury Methodist Church in Salisbury (Maryland). In 2023 he toured in the United States with the solo project ROmerican Avant-Garde in Detroit (Steinway Piano Gallery Hall), East Lansing (Cook Hall) and New York (RCI).
In Switzerland he has performed in important venues such as the Yehudi Menuhin Forum in Bern, the Ansermet Studio of the Swiss Radio and Television (Geneva), the Franz Liszt Hall of the Conservatoire de Musique, the Les Salons Theater in Geneva.
In 2020, he made his debut at Victoria Hall in Geneva in a 2-piano concert with his duo called OXY MORE (with the Swiss pianist Philippe Boaron). The duo has recorded a CD in 2021 at the Rosey Concert Hall in Rolle (Switzerland) with an innovative repertoire for 2 pianos, and made a Concert for Peace at the Memorial to the Victims of Communism in Sighetu Marmatiei (Romania), located on the Romania-Ukraine border. In October 2024, OXY MORE will collaborate in a crossover trio project with the renowned korean jazz singer Youn Sun Nah.
The young musician has also been awarded numerous prizes, including the 2nd Prize at the Béla Bartók International Piano Competition (Hungary, 2017), 2nd Prize at the Nice International Piano Competition (France, 2016) and the Rotary Club Award for Excellence for his participation in Art and Culture in Romania.
Dinu is also teaching piano at the Popular Conservatory of Music, Dance and Theater in Geneva and at the Music School of Lausanne, and he is increasingly dedicated to mixing classical and modern repertoire with contemporary piano repertoire. To that end, his most recent projects include audio-video recordings of Max Richter’s piano music connected with piano works from the romantic repertoire. His latest recording on CD is the ROmerican Avant-Garde program which will be released in 2025.