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Gabrielle (Gaby) Sipen, first year master's student, took home first prize at the XIV International Chopin Competition in Hartford, Connecticut. The competition is open to pianists of any nationality. Sipen won in the "Professional" category, open to pianists of any age.

Inna Faliks, the renowned concert pianist, and professor and head of the piano department at the School of Music reflects on how music helped her connect more deeply with her Jewish heritage.

On January 22, the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music hosted representatives from five Chinese conservatories for a demonstration of the exclusive Yamaha Remote Lesson technology between UCLA and the

REVIEW: Pianists Inna Faliks and Daniel Schlosberg presented Mahler’s Sixth Symphony in a piano four-hands arrangement prepared by Alexander von Zemlinsky. It was a performance that stripped the music down to black and white, laying bare not only its formidable architectural unity, but also its teeth-clenching harmonies.

"With this unique technology, schools have access to top level teachers from all over the world to teach their students remotely," said Faliks. These state-of-the-art technical advances enable teachers to observe and comment on the subtle nuances of their student's performance from half a world away.

READ: Acclaimed UCLA pianist Inna Faliks says presenting her “Polonaise Fantaisie: The Story of a Pianist” at the Music Institute of Chicago’s Nichols Hall in Evanston feels like a homecoming.