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  • Inessa Zaretsky

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    Inessa Zaretsky

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    Inessa Zaretsky is on the Piano faculty of Mannes College, The New School University.

     She is the Director of the Chamber Music Society of the Carolinas, based in Asheville, North Carolina and is the Artistic co-director of the Phoenix Chamber Music Series in New York City with pianist Vassa Shevel. For the past 10 years she’s been performing with Craftsbury Chamber Players 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 and Cassat String Quartets, Kent/Blossom Festival Orchestra,  Chamber Music Series of the St. Lukes Orchestra,  musicians of the Boston,  Chicago and Orpheus Orchestras, members of the Metropolitan Opera and many others.


     

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    www.inessazaretsky.com

    Future Courses

    GR 4 cr. Major Lessons
    CAML 5550, Fall 2026

    Piano Literature 1B
    CBMH 1506, Spring 2027

    Piano Literature 2A
    CBMH 2505, Fall 2026

    Russian Diction
    CAOV 5540, Fall 2026

    Past Courses

    Chamber Music Project
    CAPR 5617, Fall 2025, Spring 2026

    Chamber Music: Duo Class
    CAPR 4042, Fall 2025

    GR 4 cr. Major Lessons
    CAML 5550, Fall 2025, Spring 2026

    GR 5 cr. Major Lessons
    CAML 5560, Fall 2025

    Independent Study: CoPA
    COPA 4999, Fall 2025, Spring 2026

    Piano Literature 1A
    CBMH 1505, Fall 2025

    Piano Literature 1B
    CBMH 1506, Spring 2026

    Russian Diction
    CAOV 5540, Fall 2025

    Small Ensemble Class
    CAPR 5180, Spring 2026

    UG 2 cr. Major Lessons
    CAML 3000, Fall 2025

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