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
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Anna Elashvili
First Prize winner of the 2013 Ima Hogg Competition, Clarinetist Moran Katz also received the Audience Choice Prize as well as the Artistic Encouragement Prize voted on by the Houston Symphony musicians. In the year of 2009 alone, Ms. Katz won the First Prize at the Freiburg International Clarinet Competition in Germany, the Second Prize at the Beijing International Music Competition for Clarinet in China and the First Prize and Overall Prize at the Midland/Odessa "National Young Artist Competition" in Texas.
Her performance credits include recitals for the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., the Dame Myra Hess Recital Series in Chicago, the Detroit Institute of Arts, Rhinebeck Chamber Music Society and the Fine Arts Recital Series in Sarasota, FL; a NY debut recital at Merkin Concert Hall as part of the Tuesday Matinee Recital Series and a Debut at the Chamber Music Hall of the Berlin Philharmonic. Chamber Music appearances at the United Nations Hall (Switzerland), France's "Les Musicales" Festival in Colmar, Les Invalides in Paris and Palais des Fetes in Strasburg, Marlboro Music Festival, Canandaigua's Lake Music Festival, Cooperstown Music Festival, Mt. Desert Music Festival, Roaring Hooves Festival in Mongolia, the Two Days and Two Nights Festival in the Ukraine, Music in Drumcliffe (Ireland), Homburg Musiktage (Germany), New York's Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, MoMa, Symphony Space, Miller Theater and Bargemusic, among others.
She received Bachelor and Master of Music degrees and an Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School, where she was admitted with presidential distinction and a full scholarship. Ms. Katz was a member of Ensemble ACJW--The Academy, a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute in partnership with the NYC department of Education, performing chamber music at Carnegie Hall and bringing classical music to students in the NYC public schools.
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Moran Katz
Lenore Davis
Lenore Fishman Davis is a consummate chamber musician known for innovative programming, exceptional musicianship and for her ease of rapport with audience members. Lenore has founded and produced notable chamber music series, including St Urban Concerts/Arbor Music (2014-2020), which presented both new and traditional chamber music in homes and small venues throughout NYC. Prior to that, she founded and directed Arbor Chamber Music, NJ’s premier chamber music series, which was praised by the Star-Ledger for being “...simply stated, outstanding.” Lenore has commissioned numerous chamber works and collaborated with wonderful composers and performers; it was Lenore's great pleasure to commission works by Inessa Zaretksy, as well as to premiere and record "Muted Gestures" with Inessa and the Tesla Quartet. She is very happy to perform chamber music on the Hudson, having once swum across the Hudson, while thinking about chamber music, in the summer of 2023.
Peter Francis James, this summer, directed Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, for the Old Globe Theater, in San Diego. Acting: Broadway credits include: Left On Tenth, Ziegfeld in Funny Girl, Barack in Hillary and Clinton, Present Laughterw/Kevin Kline, The Merchant of Venice w/Al Pacino, On Golden Pond w/James Earl Jones, Drowning Crow, and Judgment at Nuremberg. Among numerous Public Theater appearances: Colin Powell, in Stuff Happens (for which, he received OBIE, Drama Desk, & Lucille Lortel Awards), Much Ado About Nothing, Venus, Horatio in Kevin Kline’s Hamlet, Long Day’s Journey...”,Signature Theater: The Lady From Dubuque, (Lortel Nomination), CSC: The Maids (OBIE Award). U.K: The Lady From Dubuque (w/Maggie Smith), Cymbeline (RSC/TFANA). Film and TV: What May Be, TheHumbling, Song One, The Losers, The Rebound, The Messenger. Archie Gaines, in “Godfather of Harlem”, “Katy Keene”,”neXt”, “Bull”, “The Code”, "Boardwalk Empire", “The Mysteries of Laura”, “Oz”, “Royal Pains”, “Gossip Girl”, “Kings”, "The Rosa Parks Story", “Simple Justice”, ”The Ruby Bridges Story”, all the “Law & Order” series. Narration: more than 75 books, and numerous awards. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he taught acting (Shakespeare), at The Yale School of Drama, from 2000-2020.
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Peter Francis James
