JUNE 8: PIANIST INNA FALIKS MERGES MUSIC AND MEMOIR AT UCLA

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Versatile and passionate internationally touring pianist Inna Faliks, who currently makes her home in Los Angeles and is professor and head of the piano department at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music, brings her one woman concert-theater experience, Polonaise-Fantaisie: Story of a Pianist, home for one free performance on June 8, 2018 at 7:30pm at Schoenberg Hall, 445 Charles E Young Drive East, University of California, Los Angeles, CA. Admission is free; further information is available by clicking here.

Ms. Faliks, known for her moving and committed interpretations in performances at venues throughout the United States, Europe and Asia, such as Carnegie Weill Hall in New York City and The National Performing Arts Center in Beijing, offers this live performance to complement her double CD on Delos Records – Polonaise-Fantaisie: The Story of a Pianist.

The thirteen works on this recording span 289 years in their dates of composition and run the gamut from Bach and Mozart to Gershwin and Elliott Carter. The musical tracks appearing on the CD are interspersed with writings by the pianist chronicling her upbringing in Odessa, Ukraine; her musical and romantic awakenings; and her subsequent immigration to the US as a Jewish refugee. Each selection illustrates or relates to the text, either autobiographically or contextually. The album, which was recorded at UCLA, has been released in physical and digital format and is available at delosmusic.com as well as on Amazon, iTunes, Spotify, and more.

The musical selections featured are unified by their brevity. Representing a huge variety of styles, they are carefully curated to be emotionally and texturally illustrative of events unfolding in the life experience of the protagonist.

Works in the live performance are:

＊Rodion Shchedrin: Basso Ostinato
＊J.S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in G-sharp Minor, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1
＊Jan Freidlin: Ballade in Black and White* – *composed for Inna Faliks in 2011
＊W.A. Mozart: Fantasia in D Minor, K 397
＊Chopin-Liszt: The Maiden’s Wish
＊Paganini-Liszt: La Campanella
＊Frédéric Chopin: Polonaise-fantaisie, Op. 61
＊Ludwig van Beethoven: 6 Bagatelles, opus 126

For more information about Inna Faliks, please visit innafaliks.com.