Born in Azerbaïdjan, pianist and professor Rena Shereshevskaya was crowned by the Figaro as “the empress of piano”, and is known to have trained the best pianists of the younger French generation. She was named Honorary Professor of Moscow’s Ippolitov-Ivanov State Musical Pedagogical Institute, where she held the position of Piano Department Chair.
A graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, she has been teaching at the renowned Central Special Music School for Gifted Children at the capital’s State Conservatory for 11 years. After giving a number of master classes at the Colmar International Festival, she was invited in 1993 to work in France as a guest professor, first at the Colmar National Conservatory, then at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris, the Rueil-Malmaison Conservatory, and at the École normale de musique de Paris Alfred-Cortot where she still teaches. In parallel to her intensive pedagogical activity, she also performs chamber music.
She has published a number of articles on the challenges of musical education. Rena Shereshevskaya was also a guest on Olivier Bellamy’s Passion Classique on Radio Classique. She won the Ippolitov-Ivanov International Prize in the field of musical education, and was appointed Chevalière de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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