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Wednesday,
May 21, 2008, 12:15pm
Inna Faliks, Piano
Ondine (from Gaspard de la nuit, 1908)
Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937)
Fantasie
in g minor, Op. 77
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827)
Sonata
No. 2 in b-flat minor, Op. 36 (Original 1913 version)
Allegro agitato
Non allegro–Lento–Più mosso
Allegro molto–Poco meno mosso–Presto
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 – 1943)
Ukrainian- born American pianist Inna Faliks is 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, 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 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.
During the fall of 06-07 season, Ms. Faliks performed in the Salle Cortot
in her Paris debut recital, in the Rodef Shalom Series in Pittsburgh,
in the LA County Museum of Art series, and in solo concerts in Imola,
Italy, at Yamaha Artist Services in New York, and Calgary, Canada. She
was the featured artist in “Spotlight" on WNYC 39.9 radio in
New York, a Merkin Hall chamber music appearance with the Bachanalia Players,
recitals at Arium NYC, performance of Ravel Left Hand Concerto with the
Brevard Festival Orchestra, chamber music concerts in Music@Menlo, California,
and New York. As a Pro Musicis Artist, Faliks regularly gives concerts
to communities such as Jewish Guild for the Blind, Salvation Army, Red
Cross, and a number of public schools.
Her recent festival appearances include performances at the prestigious
Bargemusic, Chautauqua, Shandelee, and Honest Brook Music Festivals in
New York, her third appearance at the LaGesse Festival in Toulouse, France,
and 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.
This June, Ms. Faliks received her Artist Diploma from the Accademia Pianistica
Internazionale in Imola, Italy. She is completing 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.
Ms. Faliks immigrated to the US at the age of 10. Her early training included
study with Emilio del Rosario at the Music Institute of Chicago. Her mother
Irene, also on the Institute's faculty, was her first teacher.
UPCOMING CONCERTS
May 28 Johanna Franzon, Violin and Kuang-Hao Huang, Piano
Jun 4 Andriana Chuchman, Soprano and Scott Gilmore, Piano
Jun 11 Callipygian Players
Jun 18 Ilana Setapen, Violin and Kuang-Hao Huang, Piano