Dorine Sorber is originally from the Netherlands, and is a pianist, collaborative musician, and piano teacher. 

 

She started  piano lessons when she was 7 year old, and was admitted in the class of professor Mikhail  Markov for gifted children a few years later. She subsequently studied in Paris with Youli Galperin at the académie d’art Franco-Russe, and at the Royal Conservatoire of Brussels with professor Yevgeni Moguilevsky and professor Mikhail Faerman, where she obtained her  Bachelor and Master degree in piano performance, and her Mphil in piano pedagogy.   

 

Dorine spent 3 summers in Russia in 2002, 2003 and 2005 to study with professor Viktor  Merhzanov at the Summer school in Memory of Sergey Rachmaninov in Tambov.  

 

Dorine currently works as a lecturer at the junior department of the Royal Conservatoire of  Scotland in Glasgow, as well as a piano instructor at St Leonards school in St Andrews. 

 

Dorine is passionate  about piano pedagogy, and particularly about how to create a deep, beautiful sound, how to  play with expression, while developing a healthy technique. She is an active pianist and  collaborative musician, and is part of the piano trio ZeNoBo, founded in 2022.