The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

 

 

 

 

 

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

 

 

 

 

 

Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.

Leonard Bernstein

 

 

 

 

 

About

 

Dorine Sorber was born in Leiden, the Netherlands. She started piano lessons when she was 7 years old, and was admitted in the class of professor Mikhail Markov for gifted children a few years later.  

 

She subsequently studied with professor Youli Galperin in Paris, and with professors Yevgeni Moguilevski and Mikhail Faerman at the Royal conservatoire of Brussels. She obtained her Bachelor and Master degree in piano performance, as well as a Mphil (agrégation) in piano pedagogy.

 

She spent 3 summers in Russia in 2002, 2003 and 2005 to study with Professor Viktor Merzhanov at the summer school in memory of Sergey Rachmaninov in Tambov.

 

Dorine moved to Scotland in 2014 where she is active both as a performer, a collaborative pianist and a piano teacher.  She is part of the ZeNoBo piano trio, which was founded in 2022.