Michael Zaretsky
Viola
Moscow State Conservatory; Moscow Philharmonic String Quartet; 1972, principal viola, Jerusalem Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra; soloist, Boston Pops Orchestra, the Rhode Island Philharmonic, the Atlantic Symphony of Halifax (Nova Scotia); member, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Ars Poetica Chamber Orchestra; faculty, Boston University, Longy School of Music; 1985, conducting debut leading "Strictly Strings" in Boston; recordings on the Artona label.