Sally Pinkas, Pianist-in-residence of the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College (New Hampshire, USA), is Professor of Piano at Dartmouth’s Music Department, and Artist-teacher at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Born and raised in Israel and educated in the USA, Pinkas holds performance degrees from Indiana University and the New England Conservatory of Music, and a Ph.D. in Composition and Theory from Brandeis University. Since her London debut she has concertized widely in the USA, Europe, Russia, Africa and Israel, both as soloist and as half of the Hirsch Pinkas Piano Duo (with her husband, Evan Hirsch).

Pinkas participated in summer festivals at Marlboro, Tanglewood, Aspen, Kfar Blum (Israel), Rocca di Mezzo (Italy) and Pontlevoy (France), and has appeared as soloist with the Boston Pops, Aspen Philharmonia, Jupiter Symphony, and the Dobrich Chamber Orchestra (Bulgaria). Among her chamber music collaborators are Cuarteto Latinoamericano, the Ciompi, Lydian and Leontovich String Quartets, and flutist Fenwick Smith. Her discography includes Debussy’s Twelve Etudes and Estampes (Centaur), Bread and Roses: Piano works by Christian Wolff (Mode) and Fauré’s Thirteen Nocturnes (Musica Omnia), named one of the best CDs of 2000 by The Boston Globe. A Schumann solo disc, as well as Fauré’s two Piano Quartets (with the Adaskin Trio) were recently released on MSR Classics.