Inna Faliks

"Poetry…A kind of panoramic vision that looks ahead almost to the world of Gustav Mahler emerged in Faliks’ performance of Beethoven’s sonata opus 111…"
Joseph McLellan, Washington Post

"A delight to hear… Riveting… passion and playfulness, warmly poetic."
Phil Greenfield, Baltimore Sun

"Vivid, vibrant and powerfully driven playing… Firm tonal weight and great expressive flourish…"
Tim Smith, Baltimore Sun

"Faliks filled Chopin's Sonata No. 2 with fervent thrust, lyrical warmth and concentration, and extracting seductive charm and gleaming sonorities from Liszt's "La Campanella." …she molded a boldly inflected performance of Beethoven”
The Cleveland Plain Dealer

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.

During the fall of 06-07 season, Ms. Faliks appeared in a duet recital with cellist Colin Carr at Staller Center, Stony Brook University, and in solo concerts at the Music Institute of Chicago, in Imola, Italy, at Yamaha Artist Services in NY, and Calgary, Canada. She was the featured artist in “Spotlight” on WNYC 39.9 radio in NYC. Upcoming performances include a recital in the Oheb Shalom Series in Pittsburgh, numerous radio appearances and recitals in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York. As a Pro Musicis Artist, she regularly shares her playing with various communities such as Jewish Guild for the Blind, Salvation Army, Red Cross, and a number of public schools.

The 05-06 season highlights include recitals in Weill/Carnegie Hall, NY and Longy School of Music, Boston, sponsored by the Pro Musicis Foundation ,a recital in the Worcester Museum of Art in conjunction with the acclaimed exhibit “Italian Painting 1500-1800 during times of plague”, a return recital for the Steinway Society and Pianoforte Inc. in Chicago, a WFMT radio broadcast in Chicago, a return recital and live broadcast from the Los Angeles Museum of Art.

Her recent festival appearances include solo recitals, chamber music, and concerti performances at the prestigious Bargemusic, Chautauqua, Shandelee, and Honest Brook Music Festivals in New York, as well as her third appearance at the LaGesse Festival in Toulouse, France, appearances at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, Taos Festival in New Mexico, Brevard Festival in South Carolina, Kansas International Music Festival, Eastern European Music Festival in Chicago, and Gilmore International Keyboard Festival in Michigan. She has performed chamber music with musicians from the Chicago Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the Colorado Symphony, as well as the Israel Philharmonic. Highlights of the summer of 2004 included a tour of Russia and Estonia as soloist with the Greater Baltimore Youth Orchestra, as well as a recital at the Roundtop International Piano Festival in Maine.

During the 04-05 season, Ms. Faliks enjoyed a return appearance at the Dame Myra Hess Series and live broadcast on WFMT in Chicago, a live performance on WGBH and a recital at Steinert Hall in Boston, a performance of Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and Liszt’s Totentanz with the Hopkins Symphony, Rhapsody in Blue with the Greater Baltimore Youth Orchestra, and a recital at the Candlelight Chamber Music Series in Baltimore.

After winning the 1999 National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artist award, Ms. Faliks was presented in recitals and orchestral appearances around the country for two seasons. During the 2001 concert season she performed with Concert Artists of Baltimore, completed a tour of Arkansas and Kentucky, and gave her European debut in Toulouse, France. She also performed return recitals at Weill Hall in Carnegie Hall, at the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation Series sponsored by the Yale Gordon Trust, at Shriver Hall, and at the Embassy of France.

Other notable concerts during the past seasons included recitals and master classes at the Ole Miss University School of Music in Oxford, Mississippi, Washington College Concert Series, Chestertown, MD, Artist Residency at the Western Maryland College, the Muldoon Concerts in Annandale Virginia, and the Steinway Artist Alumni Concert Series in Skokie, Illinois.

Ms. Faliks is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at the Accademia Pianistica Internazionale in Imola, Italy, with Boris Petrushansky, and on her Doctorate Studies with Gilbert Kalish at University of Stonybrook, NY. She concluded 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.

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