Profile
Rena SHERESHEVSKAYA(Russia/France)
Jury Member, Piano Section
Well-known teacher and pianist, Rena Shereshevskaya is a graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory and of a poste-graduate course at this conservatory. She taught during 12 years at the Central Special Music School for Gifted Children at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, then was a head of a piano chair at the Moscow Ippolitov-lvanov Superior Music Institute.
She has a title of a “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” (France) and of an Honorary professor of the Moscow Ippolitov-lvanov Institute and is a Laureate of the Ippolitov-Ivanov International Prize in musical education.
In 1993 she was invited to France as a guest professor, where she worked at the Colmar Conservatory, the National Superior Music Conservatory of Paris, the Rueil-Malmaison Conservatory and at the Superior Paris Music School Alfred Cortot where she teaches till now.
Rena Shereshevskaya raised a galaxy of young pianists among the most renowned of nowadays who became prize-winners of grand international competitions. Among them Alexandre Kantorow (1st Prize and Grand Prix at the 16th Tchaikovsky Competition, Moscow, 2019), Lucas Debargue (4th Prize and a Special Prize of the Association of Musical Critics at the 15th Tchaikovsky Competition, Moscow, 2015), Rémi Geniet (2nd Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition, Brussels, 2013), Marcel Tadokoro (3rd Prize at the XXth Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition, Spain, 2022, two special prizes at Cliburn Piano Competition, USA, 2022) and many others.
Rena Shereshevskaya gives public master classes worldwide: in France (the Roque d’Anthéron Festival, Academy of Nice, of Grand Paris…), in Switzerland (Verbier and Sion Festivals, Lausanne Superior Conservatory), in the USA (New Paltz Summer Festival, Manhattan Music School), in Spain (Reine Sofia Music School), in Germany, Italy, China… She is invited as a jury member of grand international piano competitions as Long Thibaud (France), Santander (Spain), Viotti (Italy), Geza Anda (Switzeland), Montreal (Canada), Maj Lind (Finland), Sendai and others.
In parallel with her intense pedagogical activity, she plays chamber music with internationally renowned musicians, and also formed a duo with her daughter, mezzo-soprano Victoria Shereshevskaya; the duo gives concerts in France and in Europe. She is also a creator and an Art Director of a festival “Artistic Dynasties and Families”.