Rena Shereshevskaya

Well-known teacher and pianist, Rena Shereshevskaya is a graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory and of a post-graduate course at this conservatory. She taught for 12 years at the Central Special Music School for Gifted Children at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, then was head of a piano chair at the Moscow Ippolitov-lvanov Superior Music Institute. In 1993 she was invited to France as a guest professor, where she worked at the Colmar Conservatory, the Paris National Superior and the Rueil-Malmaison Conservatories and at the Superior Paris Music School Alfred Cortot where she teaches till now. For her pedagogical activity she was awarded a French title of a “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” and of an Honorary professor of the Moscow Ippolitov-lvanov Music Institute; she is also a Laureate of the “Ippolitov-Ivanov International Prize in musical education”. 

Rena Shereshevskaya raised a galaxy of young pianists among the most renowned of nowadays, such as Alexandre Kantorow, Lucas Debargue, Rémi Geniet, Marcel Tadokoro, Julian Trevelyan and many others. 

Rena Shereshevskaya gives public master classes worldwide: in France, Switzerland, USA, Spain, Germany, Italy, China, Japan… and 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 (Japan), Enescu (Romania) and many others.

In parallel with her intense pedagogical activity, she plays chamber music, in particular, with her daughter, mezzo-soprano Victoria Shereshevskaya; the duo gives concerts in France, USA, Japan and other countries.