This recital-monologue explores Inna Faliks's immigration from Ukraine as a Jewish refugee, growing up as a concert pianist in Chicago, and pains of assimilation to a new society.
With music spanning from Bach, Chopin, Liszt, Mozart and Beethoven, to Freidlin and Shchedrin, Inna shares her unique life through her humorous, deeply personal storytelling, opening up the inner word of a performer to the audience.
Inna Faliks is a concert pianist with a glowing international reputation, known equally for her passionate, deeply committed performances of standard repertoire and genre-bending explorations of interdisciplinary mediums, work with living composers, building bridges between the past and present, between artist and audience. She is a published writer and head of the piano department at UCLA. The show has been seen across the US, Canada and Italy, recorded for the Delos Label, and was the basis of Faliks's musical memoir, to be published by Globe-Pequot in spring 2023. In creating the show, Faliks was inspired by Admission One Shilling, a play by Nigel Hess celebrating Dame Myra Hess and a cross between a recital and dramatic monologue which Faliks premiered in the US with Lesley Nicol as Dame Myra Hess.
