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.
Nicholas Tamagna, Vocal Director of Chamber Music on the Hudson, is a leading countertenor in his generation singing on many of the world’s stages, and a frequent collaborator with Inessa Zaretsky in recital.
Recent and upcoming performances include: Narciso in Händel’s Agrippina (Metropolitan Opera), Oberon (cover) in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Wiener Staatsoper),Ermanno in Vinci’s Gismondo, Re di Polonia (Theater an der Wien), Silvio in Händel’s Il Pastor Fido and Ruggiero in Händel’s Alcina (Halle Händelfestspiele), Ottone in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea (Florentine Opera), Siroe in Hasse’s Siroe, Re di Persia (Oldenburgisches Staatstheater and the Nederlandse Reisopera), Pompeo in Vivaldi’s Il Farnace (Spoleto Festival USA), The Refugee in Dove’s Flight (Opera Omaha / Oldenburg), Oronte in Riccardo Primo (Händelfestspiele Badisches Staatstheater), Polinesso in Ariodante (Theater Münster), Hassan in Cities of Salt (Royal Opera House Covent Garden), and the Spirit in Dido and Aeneas and To be or not to be (with le Poème Harmonique: at lOpéra de Rouen, Vichy, Royal de Versailles, and la Philharmonie de Paris).
For more about Nicholas Tamagna, please visit nicholastamagna.com.
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Anna Elashvili
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 a violinist of Decoda, an Affiliate Ensemble of Carnegie Hall and also performs with the East Coast and Orpheus Chamber Orchestras, NOVUS NY, Musicians of Lenox Hill and the Mark Morris Orchestra. Her international travels include concerts in England, Mexico, Germany, Canada, Israel, Iceland and Abu Dhabi among others. Ms. Elashvili is currently violin faculty at Yellow Barn’s Young Artist Program and at the Special Music School in Manhattan. She formerly served as adjunct faculty at Vassar College.
Ms. Elashvili also has written arrangements for Decoda, the Bryant Park Quartet and other ensembles. She has commissioned and premiered, “Sonatas and Disasters” by Brad Balliett and premiered several compositions by composers such as Du Yun, Christopher Theofanidis, Julian Wachner, Nico Muhly, Richard Wilson and many others. She also enjoys collaborating with dance companies and has worked closely with the Lar Lubovitch and Mark Morris Dance Groups, Wendy Whelan and Dance Heginbotham.
She performs on a Sam Zygmuntowicz violin on a generous extended
loan.
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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.
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Joshua Halpern
Joshua Halpern has appeared on stages around the world as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral principal cellist. As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with artists including
Jonathan Biss, Gary Hoffman, Kim Kashkashian, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Anthony McGill, and Itzhak Perlman, and appeared at music festivals including the Ravinia Steans Institute, Music@Menlo, the Perlman Chamber Music Workshop, La Jolla Summerfest, and Krzyzowa-Music. In 2022, he co-founded the Emil Trio with violinist Nathan Meltzer and pianist Yannick Rafalimanana, and they have since appeared together in concert in Europe and the United States.
In 2023, he appeared numerous times as guest principal cello with the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, as well as guest with the Varian Fry Quartet.
Josh is the founder and artistic director of the Cultural Caravan, a Colorado- based organization operating at the intersection of small businesses, social-service nonprofits, municipal
organizations, and local artists. The Cultural Caravan has since presented over 85 artists with backgrounds ranging from Zimbabwean Afropop to Venezuelan jazz, Hindustani to Classical
Music in coordination with over 60 local businesses and community organizations.
Josh performs on a cello by Domenico Busan, c. 1750. This cello is provided to Josh on a generous life-long loan from a member of the Stretton Society.
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