Management for Europe and Various projects
Beniamino Re
beniamino@onlystage.co.uk

Susanna Stefani Caetani
susanna@onlystage.co.uk

“Adventurous and passionate” (The New Yorker) Ukrainian-born pianist Inna Faliks has established herself as one of the most communicative, and poetic artists of her generation. She is renowned internationally for her commanding performances in standard piano repertoire, as well genre-bending projects, and work with contemporary composers.

Ms. Faliks’s distinguished career has brought thousands of recitals and concerts throughout the US, Asia, and Europe. Recent seasons have included performances at the Ravinia Festival, National Gallery of Art, Alice Tully Hall, the Wallis Annenberg Center and the Broad Stage. In China she has appeared at the most important concert halls: the Beijing Center for Performing Arts, Shanghai Oriental Arts Theater and Tianjin Grand Theater. She performed at the Festival Internacional de Piano in Mexico, the Fazioli Series in Italy, Israel’s Tel Aviv Museum, Portland Piano Festival, and Camerata Pacifica. She has performed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Concert Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the International Keyboard Festival in New York, Bargemusic Here and Now, and Chautauqua, the Salle Cortot in Paris, Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Hall and at many important festivals including Verbier, Mondo Musica Cremona, Brevard, Taos, Gilmore, Music in the Mountains, Brevard, Taos, and returns regularly to Newport Classical and the Peninsula Music Festival.

Since her acclaimed teenage debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, she has been a frequent guest soloist with symphony orchestras. 2024 brought debuts with Tokyo Sinfonia in Oji Hall and with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra under Perry So. She premiered Clarice Assad’s Lilith concerto with Richard Scerbo and Inscape at the National Gallery of Art with additional performances under Thomas Heuser with the San Juan Symphony. Fall 2025 brought her debut with the New West Symphony under Michael Christie in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and the premiere of Gabriel Prokofiev’s groundbreaking Concerto for Synthesizer and Orchestra with the Orquestra Sinfonica do Porto Casa da Musica in Porto, Portugal featuring Inna on the Minimoog, conducted by Andrew Gourlay.

Among many other performances with orchestra, she has appeared with the Greensboro Symphony under Dmitry Sitkovetsky, the Memphis Symphony with Robert Moody, the Erie Symphony with Daniel Meyer, Santa Barbara Symphony with Nit Kabaretto, Williamsburg Symphony, the Wintergreen Festival, and in concerti under the batons of such renowned conductors as Leonard Slatkin, Keith Lockhart, Edward Polochick, and Neal Stuhlberg. A committed chamber musician, she has had notable collaborations with Gilbert Kalish, Ron Leonard, Fred Sherry, Ilya Kaler, Colin Carr, Wendy Warner, Clive Greensmith, Antonio Lysy, and Rachel Barton Pine.

Inna Faliks has had a strong commitment to contemporary music giving premieres of works composed for and dedicated her by Billy Childs, Timo Andres, Richard Danielpour, Paola Prestini, Ljova, Clarice Assad, and Peter Golub. In her recording, “Reimagine Beethoven and Ravel”, contemporary composes respond to the Beethoven Bagatelles and Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit.  In “13 Ways of Looking at the Goldberg” composers’ created variations based on Bach’s masterpiece. She performed and recorded unknown piano works of the Russian poet Boris Pasternak. A one-woman show led to “Polonaise-Fantaisie, Story of a Pianist”, an autobiographical monologue for pianist and actress, presented as a solo recital in New York’s Symphony Space, the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Italy and for her London debut at JW3 Arts Centre.

Inna Faliks has been featured on radio and television throughout the world. She co-starred with Downton Abbey’s Lesley Nicol in “Admission – One Shilling”, a play for pianist and actor based on the life of the great British pianist, Dame Myra Hess. Her most recent recording, “Manuscripts Don’t Burn”, was released in 2024 with premiers by Maya Miro Johnson and Veronika Krauss. Prior releases have received critical praise and named to annual “best of” lists. For her Beethoven CD release on MSR, WTTW called Faliks “High priestess of the piano, concert pianist of the highest order, as dramatic and subtle as a great stage actor”.

Faliks is founder and curator of Music/Words, now based at the Wende Museum in Los Angeles: an award-winning poetry-music series in collaboration with distinguished poets. The series started in New York, in Chicago in collaboration with Poetry Foundation, a series of broadcasts on WFMT radio, as well as performances US-wide and internationally.

A past winner of many prestigious competitions, Inna Faliks is currently Professor of Piano and Head of Piano at UCLA.

Faliks is an acclaimed author, whose memoir "Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage" was published by Backbeat/Bloomsbury. Faliks appears in several internationally acclaimed story-telling/performance projects based on her writing. Her articles have been published by Los Angeles Times and Washington Post, among other publications. She is at work on a novel.

Season 2025/2026