The Lowell Milken Center has released this video tribute to Inna Faliks:
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Atlanta Audio Club Review
By Phil Muse
BEETHOVEN: PIANO SONATA NO.32, POLONAISE, FANTAISIE, “EROICA” VARIATIONS
“Inna Faliks, an American pianist of Ukrainian origin, has already won many honors in competitions, given numerous master classes, and taken up residencies in conservatories and universities on three continents. What distinguishes her from other keyboard artists with impressive resumes is a keen perception of the harmonic and physical structure of the music she plays and an unerring ability to convey this to us in terms of emotion, clarity, and style. She puts them over in one irresistible package better than anyone you are likely to encounter. The fact that she is a Yamaha Artist also plays a part, as the beautifully defined registration of her instrument seems to free her to concentrate on matters of interpretation and communication.”
Atlanta Audio Club Review
By Phil Muse
BEETHOVEN: PIANO SONATA NO.32, POLONAISE, FANTAISIE, “EROICA” VARIATIONS
“Inna Faliks, an American pianist of Ukrainian origin, has already won many honors in competitions, given numerous master classes, and taken up residencies in conservatories and universities on three continents. What distinguishes her from other keyboard artists with impressive resumes is a keen perception of the harmonic and physical structure of the music she plays and an unerring ability to convey this to us in terms of emotion, clarity, and style. She puts them over in one irresistible package better than anyone you are likely to encounter. The fact that she is a Yamaha Artist also plays a part, as the beautifully defined registration of her instrument seems to free her to concentrate on matters of interpretation and communication.”
Chopin Cello Sonata with Antonio Lysy, Schoenberg Hall (Live)
Seoul Debut – Disklavier Festival Performance
Disklavier Festival with Seoul National University
Inna’s performance in the US and simultaneously in Korea
Inna Faliks Announces”The Schumann Project”
The Schumann Project will be released by MSR Classics. More info to come, stay tuned!
Los Angeles Times Op-Ed: “Making Music in Small Spaces”
Links to all Corona Fridays performances:
Since March 20, 2020, Inna has been presenting short informal concerts from her home, dubbed “Corona Fridays.” Here are the 12 installments, thus far, of the video series – written about beautifully in this article on the Ampersand blog. Each episode features music that is newer, older – and words, of some kind – whether poetry that stands on its own, or is part of the piece, as in the case of Veronika Krausas’s “Master and Margarita” Suite.
Corona Fridays 1: Shchedrin, Chopin, and more
Corona Fridays 2: Ravel, Tchaikovsky, and Chopin
Corona Fridays 3: Beethoven, Golub, Danielpour, and more
Corona Fridays 4: Pajama Children’s Edition
Corona Fridays 5: Beethoven, Paganini-Liszt, and poetry by Jesse Ball
Corona Fridays 6: Mozart, Takemitsu, and Chopin
Corona Fridays 7: Pajama Children’s Edition
Corona Fridays 8: Tchaikovsky and Freidlin
Corona Fridays 9: Ljova and Wieck-Schumann
Corona Fridays 10: Krausas and Wieck-Schumann
Corona Fridays 11: Krausas, Ljova, and Liszt
Corona Fridays 12: Kids Edition
Corona Fridays 14: Scarlatti and Maya Miro Johnson
Corona Fridays 15: Pajama Fridays with Frida and Nathaniel
Corona Fridays 16: Chopin Etude Sandwich
Corona Fridays 17: Schumann, Rachmaninoff
Corona Fridays 18: Curtis Summerfest Young Composers Celebration
Corona Fridays 19: Pajama Fridays Edition: Schubert, Mark Carlson, Beethoven. Poetry by Helen Winslow and Carl Sandburg read by Frida and Nathaniel
Corona Fridays 20: Brahms, Tamir Hendelman, Beethoven
Corona Fridays 21: Chopin, William Carlos Williams, Richard Danielpour
Corona Fridays 22 :Beethoven, Paola Prestini, Oni Buchanan poem
Corona Fridays 23: Rilke poem and Chopin (Polonaise-Fantasie)
Corona Fridays 24: Ravel and Timo Andres
Corona Fridays 25: Friday the 13th Edition. Emily Dickinson poem, Chick Corea, Franz Liszt
Corona Fridays 26: Giraud, David Serkin Ludwig, Brahms
New Isler’s Insights Mini-Review
By Donald Isler
Voices – A Three Movement Suite for Piano and Historical Recordings by Lev “Ljova” Zhurbin
Inna Faliks, Pianist
This work should be of interest to those interested in Jewish traditional music, modern compositional techniques, and excellent pianism. The first movement was completed some years before the other two, and I liked it when I first heard it. The idea of a pianist on stage accompanying musicians from long ago struck me as wild, but exciting, and still does.
In that first movement one hears a repeated D minor chord over and over, but it has a mesmerizing effect, and leads into the body of the movement, where the pianist accompanies a 1912 recording of the famous cantor, Gershon Sirota (born 1874 – died in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising – 1943) and his choir.
Is the past, past, or is it really part of the present?! This performance makes you rethink this………
The second movement, Zhok, features Ms. Faliks playing with a recording of a klezmer trumpet player, and that, in turn, leads to the finale, Freydele, in which she plays with a 1953 recording of the Yiddish cantor (they had female cantors in those days?!) and actress, Freydele Osher. The Suite concludes with a calmer, smaller version of the D minor motive which one heard at the beginning of the work.
A very big part of the success of this performance is the fact that the pianist, Inna Faliks, who commissioned Voices, is so impressive. She has strength, technique, intensity, and an ear for interesting sonorities that’s constantly at work.
Well worth hearing!
Donald Isler
Ampersand blog covers Inna’s Corona Fridays – keeping performances alive during Covid 19
by Polina Cherezova
“Musicians find a way to connect to the given unprecedented moment,” Faliks said. “We all feel that what we are doing is needed, important, wanted in this dramatic and desperate time.”