Liana received her bachelor’s degree in music from the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with third-prize Tchaikovsky Competition winner Albert Markov. During that time, she was one of the youngest participants in the Tanglewood Music Center summer fellowship program. Upon completing her Master’s degree, Liana joined the New World Symphony in Miami for three years. There, she was one of the rotating concert masters under Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas.

In 1997, when Liana moved back to Boston, she won the Principal second violin position in the Portland Symphony in Maine. She was also a member of the Radius Chamber Music Ensemble for three years.

Zaretsky appears regularly with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and with the Boston Pops Orchestra. She served on the faculty of All Newton Music School for seven years and as guest faculty for the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, coaching chamber music. Currently, she teaches at New England Conservatory in the Preparatory School and at the Rivers School. She has also completed a second Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology.