Piano - The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Piano Faculty

Shapiro Professor of Piano Performance - Head of Piano Performance
Inna Faliks
Described by The New Yorker as “adventurous and passionate,” Ukrainian-born pianist Inna Faliks is recognized as one of the most poetic and versatile artists of her generation. Known for commanding performances of the standard repertoire, as well as innovative interdisciplinary projects, …
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Associate Professor - Piano Performance
David Kaplan
David Kaplan, pianist, has been called “excellent and adventurous” by The New York Times, and praised by the Boston Globe for “grace and fire” at the keyboard. He has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Britten Sinfonia and …
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Inna Faliks

“Adventurous and passionate” (The New Yorker) Ukrainian-born pianist Inna Faliks (www.innafaliks.com) has established herself as one of the most exciting, committed, communicative and poetic artists of her generation. Faliks is Professor of Piano at UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, where she also is Head of Piano. After her acclaimed teenage debuts at the Gilmore Festival and with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 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 call her “A concert pianist of the highest order” (Chicago WTTW), praise her “courage to take risks, expressive intensity and technical perfection” (General Anzeiger, Bonn), “remarkable insight” (Audiophile audition) “poetry and panoramic vision” (Washington Post), “riveting passion, playfulness” (Baltimore Sun) and “signature blend of lithe grace and raw power” (Lucid Culture.)

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Oct 29 Thu
6:00pm
Free
classical
David L. Abell Piano Master Series – Elizabeth Schumann
Join the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music as we welcome pianist Elizabeth Schumann for the Fall installment of our 2026/27 David L. Abell Piano Master Series, a concert series …
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Oct 29 Thu
8:00pm
Free
classical
UCLA Philharmonia: The "Don Quixote" Experience
Immerse yourself in the fantastical world of Don Quixote, where comic misadventures, tender moments and heroic dreams come vividly to life in Richard Strauss’s dazzling tone poem. As the Don, …
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Oct 30 Fri
8:00pm
Free
classical, contemporary
UCLA Wind Ensemble - American Anthems
As the United States celebrates its semiquincentennial, the UCLA Wind Ensemble opens its season with a program exploring America’s triumphs and tragedies. The concert opens with Robert Jager’s festive Esprit …
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Inna Faliks’s New Album a Top Classical Pick
From Cultural Attaché: Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 arranged for four hands is critic Craig Byrd’s top pick this week. Byrd writes that Faliks manages “to do the impossible: provide all …
Tamir Hendelman Trio Releases New Music Video
Tamir Hendelman, continuing lecturer of Jazz Piano, just released a new music video recorded at ConcertLab in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The Tamir Hendelman Trio features Sylvain Fournet-Fayas on bass and Germain Cornet on …
Review of Inna Faliks's Album "Stranger Things"
From Textura — The title of Inna Faliks’s 2023 book Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage could function equally for her latest …

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