Ian Pace
Ian Geoffrey Pace (born 1968) is a British pianist. Pace studied at Chetham's School of Music, The Queen's College, Oxford and the Juilliard School in New York. His main teacher was the Hungarian pianist György Sándor.[1]
Repertoire
Born in
Gordon Downie, Pascal Dusapin, Richard Emsley, James Erber, Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Finnissy, Christopher Fox, Volker Heyn, Wieland Hoban, Evan Johnson, Hilda Paredes, Horațiu Rădulescu, Frederic Rzewski, Howard Skempton, Gerhard Stäbler, Serge Verstockt, Jay Alan Yim and Walter Zimmermann.[2]
His huge repertoire also includes more established works by
Luigi Nono, Mauricio Kagel and John Cage, among others, as well as most of the standard repertoire from Ludwig van Beethoven through to Béla Bartók. In 1996 he gave a large-scale six-concert series of the complete piano works of Michael Finnissy, and in 2001 he premiered the same composer's five-and-a-half-hour The History of Photography in Sound, which he later recorded.[3] He regularly performs together with the Arditti Quartet, and is also artistic director of the ensemble Topologies.[4]
Recordings
He has played in 20 countries, including at most major European festivals, and has recorded numerous CDs for the Black Box, Hat Art,
City University, London. He has written widely on music, co-editing and contributing large chapters to Uncommon Ground: The Music of Michael Finnissy (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998), as well as publishing articles on Barrett, Cage, Pascal Dusapin, Fox, Kagel, Helmut Lachenmann, Franz Liszt, Salvatore Sciarrino, Howard Skempton and Xenakis.[2]
Music theory
As a musicologist, his areas of speciality are 19th-century
Theodor Adorno, and post-1945 modernism.[5]
References
- ^ "Biography | Ian Pace". Ianpace.com. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ a b "Ian Pace – Pianist". Operamusica.com. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ "FINNISSY, MICHAEL The History of Photography in Sound. Ian Pace. Metier 5cds". www.mdt.co.uk. www.mdt.co.uk. Archived from the original on 17 September 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
- ^ "BBC Radio 3 – Hear and Now, Ian Pace, contemporary virtuoso pianist". BBC. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ^ "Musicology is not Musical PR Ian Pace" (PDF). openaccess.city.ac.uk. openaccess.city.ac.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 May 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
External links
- Ian Pace's Homepage
- Homepage at Dartington College (now part of University College, Falmouth)
- Ian Pace in interview with Marc Bridle
- Interview at Composition Today
- 'Podcast 5: Pianist/writer/musicologist Ian Pace. Gill's article & a variety of related subjects.' Interview by Tigran Arakelyan
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