[2] [3] Composers who have written music specifically for her include Clarice Assad, Lev Zhurbin,[4] Timo Andres, Billy Childs, Richard Danielpour, Paola Prestini, and Peter Golub.
[7] To escape antisemitism,[1] Faliks (age 10) and her family emigrated as refugees[8] from Odessa to Chicago, with a two-month interim stay in Rome.
[7][10] Her musical education after emigrating to the United States in the late 1980s included studying with Boris Petrushansky[5] and with Emilio del Rosario at the Music Institute of Chicago; receiving a Graduate Performance Diploma and master's degree at the Peabody Conservatory studying with Leon Fleisher[11] and Ann Schein;[12] receiving an Artist Diploma from the Accademia Pianistica Internazionale in Imola, Italy; and earning a Doctorate with Gilbert Kalish at Stony Brook University.
[10][13] In 2008 she founded a poetry-music series in New York City for the Manhattan Arts Council called Music/Words, which she also curated.
In 2018 she formed the Hollywood Piano Trio with violinist Roberto Cani and cellist Robert deMaine.