Daniel Zaretsky

 

About Daniel Zaretsky

DANIEL ZARETSKY was born in Leningrad in 1964, and studied piano and organ performance at the Leningrad State Conservatory. He completed his Concert Diploma and Teaching Certificate in 1989 under the direction of Professors E. Bazanov and N. Oksentjan, and his postgraduate education at the Kazan State Conservatory under the direction of Professor R. Abdoullin.

From 1991 to 1993 he continued his studies at the Sibelius Music Academy in Helsinki (Finland) with Professor Kari Jussila, graduating with the Concert Diploma with honors. In addition he has supplemented his studies in several Master Classes in Western Europe, including those of Guy Bovet, Marie-Claire Alain, Harald Vogel, Ludger Lohmann, Jean Guillou, David Sanger, Hans Fagius, Michael Radulescu, Daniel Roth, Peter Planyavsky.

Daniel Zaretsky has performed since 1988 in all the former Soviet Union’s important venues, including the Philharmonic Halls of Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the Cathedral of Riga, as well as in Czechoslovakia, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, France, Great Britain, Spain, Poland, South America, Israel and the USA.

In 1991 he won the National Organ Competition and took Third Prize in the Speyer International Organ Competition in Germany. In 1990 he was a finalist in the International Organ Competition in Ragusa, Italy, and in 1993 in Lahti, Finland. He has also made recordings for Russian, Latvian, Swiss, German and Danish radios and for CD’s.
He has received much recognition as an organ consultant, dealing with restoration of historical instruments and construction of new organs in the concert halls. He is regularly invited to be a member of juries of international organ competitions in Russia and abroad.

Currently, he is organist of the famous St. Petersburg Philharmonic Hall. He was organ teacher at the Music College of St. Petersburg’s Conservatory from 1996 to 2001. Since 2002 he has been teaching the organ as Associate Professor at the Nizhnij Novgorod State Conservatory – the third-largest conservatory in Russia.