Pianist Inna Faliks will be featured in a concert at Mannes College, 150 West 85 St. in New York City as part of the International Keyboard Institute and Festival’s Prestige Series on Wednesday, July 18th at 6pm. Tickets are $20. Program is as follows:

• Beethoven: Fantasie in G minor, Op. 77
• Beethoven: 15 Variations and Fugue, Op. 35 “Eroica”
• Shchedrin: Basso Ostinato
• L. Zhurbin: Sirota, for piano and historical recording (2011)
• Chopin: Polonaise – Fantaisie in A Flat Major, Op. 61
• Liszt: “Harmonies du Soir”, Transcendental Etude No. 11, S. 139
• Chopin-Liszt: Maiden’s Wish (S.480/1)
• Paganini-Liszt: Etude No. 3 “La Campanella” from Grand Paganini Etudes, (S.141)

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Called “adventurous” and “passionate” by The New Yorker, Ukrainian-born, New York City based pianist Inna Faliks has established herself as one of the most passionately committed, exciting and poetic artists of her generation. After her debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 15, acclaimed by the Chicago Tribune, she has performed on many of the world’s great stages, with numerous orchestras, in solo appearances, and with conductors such as Leonard Slatkin and Keith Lockhart. Critics praise her “courage to take risks, expressive intensity and technical perfection” (General Anzeiger, Bonn), “Infusing every note with brilliance and personality,” (Hilton Head Competition Review), “poetry and panoramic vision” (Washington Post), “riveting passion, playfulness” (Baltimore Sun) and her “virtuosity, humor, lyricism and a way to make every note an important part of the texture of the music.”(Free Times, South Carolina). Her critically acclaimed CD on MSR Classics, Sound of Verse, was released in 2009, featuring music of Boris Pasternak, Rachmaninoff and Ravel. Her discography also includes a recital recording for the Yamaha Disklavier library.