Born in Timișoara in 1988 into a musical family with a classical music background, Dinu is a passionate and an Award winning Romanian-Swiss concert pianist established in Switzerland. He developed his musical skills at the "Haute École de Musique de Genève" having had as mentors Prof. Dominique Weber and Cédric Pescia.

Dinu also received special prizes for outstanding academic results and had the opportunity to perfect his musical and technical skills with renowned musicians such as Leon Fleisher, Dmitri Bashkirov, Menahem Pressler, Julian Martin, Robert McDonald, Paul Coker, Philippe Cassard and Nelson Goerner.

Since 2021, Dinu holds a Ph.D in Music thanks to his doctoral thesis entitled The Interpretation of Béla Bartók’s Musical Microcosm: between the Elements of Musical Language and Artistic Expression.

As a soloist and chamber musician, he has performed with the main orchestras in Romania as well as with the Orchestra of the HEM and Camerata Venia of Geneva (Switzerland), Orchestre des Variations Symphoniques of Vevey (Switzerland) and the Orchestra of the Festival of Gijón-Candás (Spain).

Dinu was invited to perform in various International festivals such as the Verbier Festival UNLTD, Millennium Piano Festival (Gijón, Spain), Puplinge Classique (Switzerland), Lavaux Classic, Les Estivales de Megève (France) etc.

His collaborations with Romanian and international conductors include Remus Georgescu, Gheorghe Costin, Florin Totan, Radu Popa, Oliver Diaz, Stefan Geiger, Christophe Rehli, Nadder Abbassi, Luc Baghdassarian, Gleb Skvortsov.

In 2007 he was invited to perform in the United States at the City College’s Shepard Hall in New York and Salisbury’s Asbury Methodist Church (Maryland), coming back with a solo U.S.A. tour in 2023 at Detroit’s Steinway Piano Gallery Hall, Michigan State University’s Cook Hall and New York’s Romanian Cultural Institute.

As a chamber music partner, he played in important venues in Switzerland such as the Yehudi Menuhin Forum in Bern, the Paderewski Hall in Lausanne, 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.

During the Covid-19 Pandemic in 2020, he made his debut at the Victoria Hall in Geneva in a 2-piano concert with his duo OXY MORE (with the Swiss pianist Philippe Boaron) with which he has recorded an innovative repertoire for 2 pianos on CD in 2021 at the Rosey Concert Hall in Rolle (Switzerland). In 2022, the duo has made a concert tour in Romania that ended with a Concert for Peace dedicated to the victims of the Ukraine War – presided by pianist Martha Argerich – at the Memorial to the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance in Sighetu’ Marmatiei, located on the Romania-Ukraine border.

During his musical parcours, Dinu has also been awarded numerous national and international prizes, including the 2nd Prize at the International Béla Bartók Piano Competition (Hungary, 2017), 2nd Prize at the Nice Côte d’Azur International Piano Competition (France, 2016), the Rotary Club Award for Excellence for his constant participation in Art and Culture in Romania and Romanian Young Talent support prizes offered by the ancient Artistic Director of the Vienna State Opera Ioan Hollender and the Romanian European Parliament member Maria Grapini.

Dinu is completing his musical passions also by teaching the piano at the Popular Conservatory of Music, Dance and Theater in Geneva and at the Music School of Lausanne. In the meantime he is increasingly dedicated to mixing classical, modern and contemporary piano repertoires with jazz, free improvisation and other Art forms – dance and theater.

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. Also, as an OXY MORE Piano Duo musician, Dinu collaborated in 2024 and 2025 in crossover trio projects that combined classical repertoire and jazz transcriptions for 2 pianos and voice, with the world renowned korean jazz singer Youn Sun Nah.

His latest solo album is the 50 minutes one-shot program called ROmerican Avant-Garde, which presents a mélange of avant-garde works by some of the greatest American composers, punctuated by Romanian pieces in a transatlantic cultural bridge. The program was released in October 2025 on CD by the Swiss label Claves Records and was presented and performed by Dinu at his solo debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall that same month.

The album recently received the 5 Diapasons Award – Technique 5 / 5, a prize that was awarded by the French professional CD review magazine Diapason Mag.