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Ukrainian-born American pianist Inna
Faliks "infuses every note
with brilliance and personality." (Jane Shaw, Hilton Head Competition
Review, South Carolina.) 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 2007-08 performances included concerti
with the South Carolina Philharmonic, Concert Artists of
Baltimore, appearances in Bonn, Germany, a performance in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), and numerous broadcasts in Chicago and
Los Angeles. In upcoming months she is appearing as soloist with the
Topeka Symphony Orchestra, the Israel Chamber Orchestra and in recitals in
New York City, Chicago, and Toulouse, France.
During the fall of the 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 radio in NYC. Recent performances include a recital at the Salle
Cortot in Paris, the Rodef 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 included
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.
During the 2007-08 season, Ms. Faliks performs with the Brevard
Festival Orchestra and the South Carolina Philharmonic.
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 North 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 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.
In June 2007, Ms. Faliks received her Artist
Diploma at the Accademia Pianistica Internazionale in Imola, Italy, with
Boris Petrushansky, and in May 2008 completed her Doctorate Studies with Gilbert Kalish at
University of Stonybrook, NY. Earlier she concluded her studies with Leon Fleisher,
earning her Graduate Performance Diploma and completing her Masters degree
at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. There she had received her Bachelors
and began her Masters degree, studying 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.
Inna Faliks is exclusively represented by
Altman
Artists.
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