Music/Words Begins Fourth Season 11/18 with Poet Cecily Parks, Composer Ljova, et al.

Music/Words (www.musicwordsnyc.com), an interdisciplinary series founded and curated by NYC- based pianist Inna Faliks (www.innafaliks.com), begins its fourth season on Friday, November 18, at 7:30pm with a performance at New York's Yamaha Artist Services Piano Salon featuring Faliks at the piano along with readings by poet Cecily Parks. The varied program will include C.P.E. Bach's Sonata in a minor, Chopin's Barcarolle opus 60, Lera Auerbach's "Ludwig's Alptraum", NYC based composer Ljova (Lev Zhurbin)'s new work "Sirota", and Beethoven's Sonata opus 57, "Appassionata." Yamaha Artist Services Piano Salon (www.yamaha.com/yasi/home.html) is located at 689 5th Ave. in New York. Tickets are $20 and are available by calling 212-339-9995. The event is followed by a wine and hors d'oeuvres reception.

MUSIC/WORDS celebrates links between poetry and music by presenting collaborations between exciting solo performers and acclaimed contemporary poets in the form of a live recital/reading. Inna Faliks created the series in order to foster a chance for poets and musicians to work together and inspire each other, as well as to allow different audiences to come together for these musical-literary events. New published and unpublished works are read alongside per

formances of music old and new and connected by content, intuition, and inspiration. According to Faliks, "I pair performers together based on their personalities and styles, and encourage them to c

hoose the poems and music in varied ways that are strongly and intuitively connected." In this performance, Ms. Parks will tailor her readings to Ms. Faliks' musical selections, finding poems (by herself and by other poets) that connect with the music. Music/Words will be featured in regular live broadcasts throughout the month of April 2012 on WFMT Radio in Chicago.

Called "A delight to hear" and "riveting" by Phil Greenfield of the Baltimore Sun, pianist Inna

Faliksplayed her debut with the Chicago Symphony at age 15, and performs regularly at major venues in US and abroad. A winner of many international competitions including the 2005 International Pro Musicis Award, Ms. Faliks has recently performed at Carnegie Hall, Paris's Salle Cortot, The Metropolitan Museum, Bargemusic, a and in multiple TV and radio broadcasts worldwide. Her CD, Sound of Verse, has been enthusiastically reviewed by Gramophone, American Record Guide and other press. Recent festival appearances include Verbier, Taos, and Brevard.

Cecily Parks is the author of the poetry collection Field Folly Snow and the chapbook Cold Work. Her poetry, reviews, and essays appear in Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Orion, The Yale Review, and elsewhere.

Upcoming Music/Words performances for 2012 are:

• Feb 10th at the Gershwin Hotel, steNYC, with Dimitry Dover and Inna Faliks piano four hands, poet TBA.

• April 22nd, Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC, with Inna Faliks piano, and Irina Mashinski, poet.