Pianist Ines Draskovic is an Associate Professor of Music at Finger Lakes Community College, and has taught at the College since 1996.

Prior to this, she was a faculty member at Ithaca College. Dr. Draskovic received a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Piano Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, and a Master of Music in Piano Performance from Ithaca College. Her teachers include Alexei Nasedkin, Phiroze Mehta and Rebecca Penneys.

Ines has performed in Europe and the United States, and has won several piano competitions, including the Ithaca College Concerto Competition and Republic of Serbia Piano Competition in Belgrade (Serbia). She was the finalist in Piano Competition in Stresa (Italy) and has participated in festivals and master classes in Italy, Poland, Germany and former Yugoslavia. In addition to her solo career, Ines performs regularly with the Finger Lakes Chorale and College Singers (Canandaigua, NY), as well as with the Finger Lakes Choral Festival and chamber orchestra Cordancia, both based in Rochester, NY.

Why supporting LumiVoce biodiversity projects?
Ever since I could remember myself, I have loved animals. Growing up in a suburb of Serbia’s (then Yugoslavia’s) capital, Belgrade, my friends and I have always played with stray dogs and cats in our neighborhood, bringing them food, building them shelters in our large park, even helping with their babies (and there were ALWAYS babies) and hiding them from periodic visits of animal control. I believe that we were then just like the children are everywhere—ready to love, curious and intensely attached to other live beings. It is this connection with children, with educating them further about something that their hearts are already open to, that I find to be one of the most inspiring facets of the work that LumiVoce does.