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
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Acclaimed by the New York Times as an "extraordinary violist" of "immense flair," Dov Scheindlin is a member of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and an associate member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. He has also been violist of the Arditti, Penderecki and Chester String Quartets. His chamber music career has brought him to 28 countries around the globe, and won him the Siemens Prize in 1999. He has appeared as soloist with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Berlin, the Paris Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Munich Philharmonic. Mr. Scheindlin has recorded extensively for EMI, Teldec, Auvidis, Col Legno, and Aparté, and won the Gramophone Award in 2002 for the Arditti Quartet's recording of Sir Harrison Birtwistle's Pulse Shadows. As a member of the Arditti Quartet, he gave nearly 100 world premières, among them new works by Benjamin Britten, Elliott Carter, György Kurtág, Thomas Adès, and Wolfgang Rihm. He plays a viola made by Gaetano Gadda in 1928.
Dov Scheindlin
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.
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
