Dec 16: Pianist Inna Faliks at Bargemusic & more

December 16: Inna Faliks at Bargemusic

On December 16 at 7 pm, the pianist Inna Faliks makes her long-awaited return to New York City. Performing on the opening night of Bargemusic’s Here & Now Winter Festival, Ms. Faliks gives the New York premieres of works that she commissioned for her 2021 album, “Reimagine: Beethoven and Ravel.” She’ll perform Beethoven’s Bagatelles Op 126 and Scarbo by Ravel, alongside new works by Richard Danielpour, Billy Childs, Mark Carlson, Tamir Hendelman and Peter Golub.

 

Also on the program: the New York premiere of “Voices” for pianist and historical recordings by Ljova, written for Inna Faliks. The composer used vintage recordings of cantors from a century ago as inspiration and source material for this three-part composition. He incorporates recordings of cantor Gershon Sirota ("The Jewish Caruso”), an instrumental folk dance and cantorial music sung by Yiddish actress and singer Fraydele Oysher into this work. tickets and details

Inna Faliks Across the Country

Pianist Inna Faliks and her fleet fingers crisscross the country over the next few months. Here are just a few highlights of her busy 2021-2022 season.

 

On January 13, she performs a recital at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. This special program features premieres from her acclaimed album Reimagine: Beethoven and Ravel.

 

On February 13, Inna Faliks joins the Bellingham Symphony and Yaniv Attar for a performance of Chopin's magnificent Piano Concerto No. 1 for a special Valentine's day performance. tickets and details

 

March 27 brings Inna Faliks to Akron, OH to perform on the venerable Arts at Holy Trinity concert series.  The program features her autobiographical "Polonaise-Fantasie, the Story of a Pianist."

 

On April 13, she heads to Japan to perform with the Tokyo Sinfonia.

 

On May 6, at The Wende Museum, Ms. Faliks presents a musical tribute to Mikhail Bulgakov's iconic Soviet novel of art, irony, love, religion, and Faustian legend, The Master and Margarita. tickets and details

 

Visit Inna Faliks' website for a complete performance schedule and updated details. 

Recent Recordings

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Watch Inna Faliks' video recital featuring music from Reimagine: Beethoven and Ravel, available to rent for on-demand streaming at Jacaranda Music. The program features the world premiere concert performances of “Pursuit” by Childs and “Old Ground” by Timo Andres, alongside Ravel’s “Gaspard de la Nuit."

The nationally broadcast radio program, Performance Today, featured a selection from Inna's video recital on November 26. You can listen to her performance of "Pursuit" by Billy Childs on Performance Today through December 26 at this link.

Inna Faliks was the featured guest on the iHeart Radio program Speaking of Travel with host Marilyn Ball. In the episode, she discusses her award-winning series of collaborations between musicians and distinguished poets, "Music/Words," and the genesis of her autobiographical show, “Polonaise-Fantasie, the Story of a Pianist." The program aired November 7th in North Carolina and can be heard on demand on iHeart Radio's podcast platform.

In September, Inna Faliks spoke with WWFM's Cadenza host David Osenberg about her new album Reimagine in an extensive, two-part interview. Listen to Part 1 here and Part 2 here.

“Adventurous and passionate” (The New Yorker) Ukrainian-born American pianist Inna Faliks has made a name for herself through her commanding performances of standard piano repertoire, as well genre-bending interdisciplinary projects, and inquisitive work with contemporary composers. After her acclaimed teenage debuts at the Gilmore Festival and with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, she has performed on many of the world’s great stages in recital and with many major orchestras, performing with conductors Leonard Slatkin, Keith Lockhart and many others.

 

Ms. Faliks collaborates with and premieres music by some of today’s most significant composers, including Billy Childs, Richard Danielpour, Timo Andres and Clarice Assad. She is known for her poetry-music series Music/Words, and has worked with a number of prominent poets. She regularly tours her monologue-recital Polonaise-Fantasie, the Story of a Pianist, which tells the story of her immigration to the United States from Odessa (recorded on Delos). Besides Reimagine, her discography includes all-Beethoven and Rachmaninoff/Ravel/Pasternak discs for MSR Classics, and the Master and Margarita project, featuring three world premieres on Sono Luminus.

 

In addition to her other impressive accomplishments, Faliks is a respected educator and is head of Piano Studies at UCLA. She is also a published writer, with articles and essays appearing in Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post, among other media outlets. Inna Faliks is a Yamaha Artist, and is represented by John Gingrich Management.