In 2010 he attended the Deer Valley Festival’s Emerging Quartets and Composers residency where a new work, Representations and Interpretation, was premiered by the Élan String Quartet. In previous summers he studied at the European American Musical Alliance in Paris where a choral piece, Of Cloudless Climes and Starry Skies, was performed, and where he studied composition with both Philip Lasser and the French composer Michel Merlet.

Mr. Pesetsky began his studies with Boston-based composer Howard Frazin and has worked in masterclasses with John Harbison, Fred Lerdahl, and Libby Larsen. He is a graduate of Bard College Conservatory where his teachers were Joan Tower, John Halle, and George Tsontakis. He began his musical studies on the cello with Debbie Thompson and Emmanuel Feldman, and has studied piano with Lucas Wong at Bard and Leslie Amper in Boston. Upcoming composition projects include a new work for chamber winds and serpent for Douglas Yeo, William Drury, and New England Conservatory Jordan Winds.

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