fostering shared experiences of joy, creativity and transcendence through world-class chamber music
Inessa Zaretsky, Artistic Director of Chamber Music on the Hudson, has had extensive experience in programming and running music festivals throughout the US, as Artistic Director of Chamber Music Society of the Carolinas. and Co-Director of the Phoenix Ensemble with pianist Vassa Shevel in New York. For the past 15 years she’s been performing with Craftsbury Chamber Music Festival in Vermont.
Ms. Zaretsky is an award-winning pianist and composer whose performances have taken her around the world while her music has been performed in England, Norway, Canada, Australia, Italy , Russia and throughout the United States.
She studied piano with Richard Goode and composition with Robert Cuckson at the Mannes College of Music in New York and has collaborated with many notable musicians, such as the Miro, Enso, Jasper, Tesla and Cassat String Quartets, Kent/Blossom Festival Orchestra, Chamber Music Series of St. Lukes Orchestra, principal players of the Boston, Chicago and Orpheus Orchestras, as well as soloists of the Metropolitan Opera.
She is on the piano faculty of Mannes College, New School University. For more about Ms. Zaretsky, please visit www.inessazaretsky.com.
Anna Elashvili, violin, hailed as "riveting" by the New York Times and “maintaining ferocious accuracy into the upper register” by the New Yorker has appeared as a soloist, chamber musician and concertmaster around the world. She has collaborated with renowned artists such as Maxim Vengerov, Lynn Harrell, Daniel Hope and Dawn Upshaw.
Anna is currently a violinist in Decoda, an Affiliate Ensemble of Carnegie Hall, and the Musicians of Lenox Hill. She is a former first violinist of the Bryant Park Quartet and has performed with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, East Coast Chamber Orchestra, NOVUS NY and many others. Her international travels include concerts in England, Mexico, Germany, Canada, Israel, Iceland and Abu Dhabi.
Ms. Elashvili has written arrangements for several ensembles which have been performed around the country and in Europe. Anna commissioned and premiered works by prominent composers including, Valerie Coleman, Brad Balliett, Du Yun, Jane Antonia Cornish, Christopher Theofanidis, and Nico Muhly. She also enjoys collaborating with dance companies and has worked with Lar Lubovitch, Mark Morris and Wendy Whelan.
Ms. Elashvili is currently violin faculty the Special Music School and frequently teaches at Yellow Barn’s Young Artist Program. Anna received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from The Juilliard School and completed a fellowship at Carnegie’s program “Ensemble Connect”. She has attended summer festivals including Yellow Barn, Perlman Music Program, Tanglewood and the Verbier Music Festival, where she served as concertmaster for several European tours.
Ms. Elashvili performs on a Sam Zygmuntowicz violin on a
Anna Elashvili
Ivan Filipchyk
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Ivan Filipchyk is a multifaceted musician and artist based in New York.
Ivan was born in Belarus, where he studied music and visual arts.
In 2015, he relocated to New York after earning a Master of Arts in music performance from the Gnesin Academy of Music in Moscow.
A versatile virtuoso, Ivan has received honours in many international competitions. He has performed on major concert stages in the USA, Japan, Canada, Europe, Russia, and Ukraine. His repertoire encompasses a wide range of music styles, from transcriptions of classical music to pieces of contemporary composers and his own music.
As a performer on the accordion and piano, composer, and arranger, Ivan participated in multiple music festivals, such as "Chamber Music on the Hudson", "Hudson Valley New Music Festival", a music festival directed by The Chamber Music Society of the Carolinas, and "Art Slope Festival". He was part of contemporary music projects working with such innovative organisations as “Opera on Tap” and “New Camerata Opera”.
Ivan has collaborated with such acclaimed musicians as Hanzhi Wang, Inessa Zaretsky, Raman Ramakrishnan, Yves Dhar, Anna Elashvili, Keve Wilson, and Tesla Quartet.
Being a musician and an artist, Ivan actively combines musical performance with his visual art (oil painting) by creating theme-based concerts/ exhibitions.
Praised for his versatility and soulful expressive style, Serafim Smigelskiy actively performs on both baroque and modern cellos.Serafim has toured four continents as a soloist and chamber musician, appearing with Jupiter Chamber Players, Trinity Baroque, Sebastians, El Mundo, TENET , Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and The American Classical Orchestra, among others. He has performed as principal cellist with the Juilliard Orchestra, Pegasus, Experiential Orchestra, and the Kansas City Philharmonic. Between 2014 and 2021, while a member of the Tesla Quartet, Serafim appeared on some of the world’s most prestigious stages, including Wigmore Hall, the Esterhazy Palace, and the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, during which the Quartet released two award-winning albums. A passionate advocate of new music, Serafim has given numerous world premiere performances guided by composers such as Arvo Pärt, Chaya Czernowin, Georg Friedrich Haas, Mathias Pintscher, Magnus Lindberg, and many others. His love of early music and fascination with historical performance practice led him to study baroque cello with Phoebe Carrai at the Juilliard Historical Performance Department and to perform alongside Robert Mealy, Monica Huggett, Christophe Rousset, William Christie, and Nicholas McGegan.Serafim also produces electronic music as Faremis Sound and creates audio stories with his wife, Sierra Prasada, as HiSierrafim.
Serafim Smigelskiy
