Ukrainian-born American pianist Inna Faliks “infuses every note with brilliance and personality.” (Jane Shaw, Hilton Head Competition Review, South Carolina.) Most recently the recipient of the 2005 Pro Musicis International Award in NY and Grand Prize winner of the 2005 St. Charles International Piano Competition, Ms. Faliks gave her debut with the Chicago Symphony at age 15 playing Tchaikovsky’s Concerto # 1, her Carnegie Hall debut in 2000, and has performed numerous recitals and concerti in prestigious venues in the US as well as in France, Italy, Switzerland, Russia, Ukraine, Estonia, and Japan. She has performed under the batons of numerous conductors including Leonard Slatkin, Keith Lockhart, Edward Polochick, Stephen Alltop, Anne Harrigan, Jed Gaylin, and many others. Ms. Faliks is a Yamaha Artist.
Ms. Faliks has had numerous competition successes, including 1st prize in the International Hilton Head Piano Competition, 2nd Prize in the Val Tidone International Piano Competition in Italy, 1st prize in the National Federation of Music Clubs Competition, and 1st Prize in the Yale Gordon Competition at Peabody Conservatory. Earlier competitions include winning the Chopin Kosciuszko Competition, MTNA Yamaha National Competition, and Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, among others.
Her 07-08 performances include concerti with the Concert Artists of Baltimore with Ed Polochick conducting, appearances in Bonn, Germany, a performance in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a recital at Bargemusic Festival, NYC, an appearance with the South Carolina Philharmonic, as well as numerous broadcasts in Chicago and LA. Ms. Faliks’ September 08 tour of Russia was highly praised; her upcoming performances this season include concerti with the Topeka Symphony, Concert Artists of Baltimore, Augustana Arts, and Highland Park Strings. This season she presents solo recitals at venues such as Salle Cortot, Paris, French Alliance Institute Francais, New York, Bargemusic, NY, and LACMA's contemporary music festival “Bach til Now” in LA. Her innovative interdisciplinary series of contemporary poetry and live piano performances Music/Words began in October. Her CD on MSR Classics with music of Rachmaninoff, Ravel and Boris Pasternak comes out this year.
Ms. Faliks is a member of the piano faculty of North Eastern Illinois University in Chicago. In June 2007, Ms. Faliks received her Artist Diploma from the prestigious Accademia Pianistica Internazionale in Imola, Italy, with Boris Petrushansky. She recently completed her Doctorate Studies with Gilbert Kalish at University of Stonybrook, NY. Ms. Faliks studied with Alexander Korsantia at the the New England Conservatory, after concluding her studies with Leon Fleisher, earning her Graduate Performance Diploma and completing her Masters degree at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. She had received her Bachelors and began her Masters there with Ann Schein. Born in Odessa, Ukraine, in 1978, Ms. Faliks immigrated to the US at the age of 10. By that time she had already composed an opera and played her first solo recital in Rome, Italy. She studied with Emilio del Rosario at the Music Institute of Chicago for seven years. Her mother Irene, also on the Institute’s faculty, was her first teacher.
R. Schumann: Davidsbündlertanze
Op.6 (complete all 18 movements)
F. Chopin: Etudes, Op. 25
F. Chopin: Mazurkas from Op. 59
F. Chopin: Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor,
Op. 35
Chopin & Schumann
200th Anniversary Concert
