Inna Faliks, Piano
Sunday March 21, 2010
Programme
- Chopin - Polonaise-Fantasie opus 61
- Chopin - Piano Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35
- Schumann - Fantasie in C major op. 17
Bio
"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 hear¼ Riveting¼ passion and playfulness, warmly poetic."
Phil Greenfield, Baltimore Sun
"Inna Faliks began with Bach's Fugue in G Sharp Minor, which projected a great conviction and majestic conception from the first note. Beethoven's Bagatelles op.126 also demonstrated a mature musical personality, which revealed the six miniatures and their inner content sharply defined without exaggeration. In the Sonata op 111 Faliks played with the courage to take risks and with an expressive intensity, which went beyond her technical perfection and showed a musician at rest within herself, as she constructed her interpretation with clear vision."
General - Anzeiger, Bonn, Germany
"Faliks..who performs all over the world..knocked the socks of this difficult work,"
The State , South Carolina
" 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." ¼she 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 coveted 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 been featured on WQXR, W-NYC, WFMT and many international television broadcasts, and has performed in numerous important festivals such as Verbier, Brevard, Taos, Bargemusic, and Chautauqua. She has played concerti under the batons of many 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, and an appearance with the South Carolina Philharmonic. Her upcoming concerts include a tour of Russia, Bargemusic Festival, a performance in Salle Cortot, Paris, a concerto with the Israel Chamber Orchestra, and recitals in Chicago and Toulouse, France. She is a frequent guest at the Dame Myra Hess Series in Chicago and at LA County Museum of Art. She has recently performed in an acclaimed debut in Salle Cortot, Paris, and Bologna, Italy.
Ms. Faliks holds an Artist Diploma from the prestigious Accademia Pianistica Internazionale, where she studied with Boris Petrushansky. She recently received her Doctorate at Stony Brook University, studying with Gilbert Kalish. Her other teachers include Leon Fleisher and Ann Schein at Peabody Conservatory. Ms. Failks moved to the United States at age 10 from Odessa, Ukraine, where her mother Irene was her first teacher. She studied and later was assistant to renowned teacher Emilio del Rosario
