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Inna Faliks
Ukrainian-born American pianist Inna Faliks gave her debut with the Chicago Symphony at age 15 playing Tchaikovsky's Concerto # 1. Since then she has performed recitals and concerti in the United States, France, Italy, Switzerland, Russia, Ukraine, Estonia, and Japan, under the batons of Leonard Slatkin, Keith Lockhart, Edward Polochick, Stephen Alltop, Anne Harrigan, Jed Gaylin, Jason Love, Thomas Joiner, Phillip Simmons among others.
Ms. Faliks is a top prize winner in many competitions including the 2005 Pro Musicis International Award, Saint Charles International Piano Competition, International Hilton Head Piano Competition, Val Tidone International Piano Competition in Italy, National Federation of Music Clubs Competition, Yale Gordon Competition at Peabody Conservatory, and the Yamaha National Competition.
Her festival appearances include performances at Bargemusic, Chautauqua, Shandelee, and Honest Brook Music Festivals in New York, the LaGesse Festival in Toulouse, France, the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, the Taos Festival in New Mexico, and the Eastern European Music Festival in Chicago. She has also performed chamber music with musicians from the Chicago Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the Colorado Symphony, and the Israel Philharmonic.
Ms. Faliks completed the doctoral program with Gilbert Kalish at Stony Brook University and the Artist Diploma program at the Accademia Pianistica Internazionale in Imola, Italy, with Boris Petrushansky She earned a Graduate Performance Diploma and a Masters degree at the Peabody Conservatory with Leon Fleisher and Ann Schein.
Born in Odessa, Ukraine, in 1978, Ms. Faliks immigrated to the United States 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. Ms. Faliks is a Yamaha Artist.
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