A graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory and of the poste-graduate course of the same Conservatory, a titular of “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, (France), a laureate of the Ippolitov-Ivanov International Prize in Musical Education and an Honorary Professor of the Moscow Ippolitov-lvanov Musical and Pedagogical Institute.

Rena Shereshevskaya taught during 12 years at the Central Special Music School for Gifted Children at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory and then was invited to the Ippolitov-lvanov Music Institute as a professor of piano and a head of a piano chair.

In 1993 she was invited to France as a guest professor of piano and works there since. At present she is a professor of piano at the Paris Alfred Cortot Superior Music School and at the Rueil-Malmaison Conservatory. She gives masterclasses all over the world (France, USA, Canada, Italy, Switzerland, Russia, Monaco, China…) and often invited as a jury member of international piano competitions.

Many of her students became prize-winners of grand international competitions, as Rémi Geniet (2nd Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition, Brussels, 2013), Lucas Debargue (4th Prize and a Special Prize of the Association of Musical Critics at the 15th Tchaikovsky Competition, Moscow, 2015), Alexandre Kantorow (1st Prize and the Grand Prix at the 16th Tchaikovsky Competition, Moscow, 2019) and many others.

In parallel with her pedagogical activity, she plays chamber music with internationally renowned musicians, and also performs in duo with her daughter, mezzo-soprano Victoria Shereshevskaya. She is also a creator and an Art Director of a festival “Artistic Dynasties and Families”.

Pavel Berman

Violin

Tatiana Masurenko

Viola

Andrea Oliva

Flute

Eva Bindere

Violin

Rena Shereshevskaya

Piano

Silvia Careddu

Flute

Daniel Oren

Conducting