Ian Pace
Ian Geoffrey Pace(born 1968) is a British pianist. Pace studied atChetham's School of Music,The Queen's College, Oxfordand theJuilliard SchoolinNew York.His main teacher was the Hungarian pianistGyörgy Sándor.[1]He is currently Professor of Music, Culture and Society atCity University, London.[2]
Repertoire
[edit]Born inHartlepool,Pace is particularly well known for playing music of the 20th and 21st centuries, especially contemporary British, French, German and Italian music. Premieres he has given include works byRichard Barrett,Luc Brewaeys,Aaron Cassidy,James Clarke,Raymond Deane,James Dillon,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 YimandWalter Zimmermann.[3]
His huge repertoire also includes more established works byPierre Boulez,Karlheinz Stockhausen,Jean Barraqué,Iannis Xenakis,György Ligeti,Luigi Nono,Mauricio KagelandJohn Cage,among others, as well as most of the standard repertoire fromLudwig van Beethoventhrough toBéla 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-hourThe History of Photography in Sound,which he later recorded.[4]He regularly performs together with theArditti Quartet,and is also artistic director of the ensemble Topologies.[5]
Recordings
[edit]He has played in 20 countries, including at most major European festivals, and has recorded numerous CDs for the Black Box, Hat Art,Métier,Mode,Naïve,NMCandStradivariuslabels, including discs of Dusapin, Finnissy, Fox, Zimmermann and thenew complexitydiscTracts.From 2003 to 2006 he wasAHRCCreative and Performing Arts Research Fellow at theUniversity of Southampton.From 2007 to 2010 he was lecturer in Musicology atDartington College of Artsand in 2010 took up a lecturership atCity University, London,where he is currently Professor of Music, Culture and Society.[2]He has written widely on music, co-editing and contributing large chapters toUncommon 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 Skemptonand Xenakis.[3]
Music theory
[edit]As a musicologist, his areas of speciality are 19th-centuryperformance practice,music and society, the work ofTheodor Adorno,and post-1945 modernism.[6]
References
[edit]- ^"Biography | Ian Pace".Ianpace.Retrieved19 June2019.
- ^ab"Professor Ian Pace: City, University of London".city.ac.uk.Retrieved17 May2024.
- ^ab"Ian Pace – Pianist".Operamusica.Retrieved19 June2019.
- ^"FINNISSY, MICHAEL The History of Photography in Sound. Ian Pace. Metier 5cds".mdt.co.uk.mdt.co.uk. Archived fromthe originalon 17 September 2017.Retrieved28 August2021.
- ^"BBC Radio 3 – Hear and Now, Ian Pace, contemporary virtuoso pianist".BBC.Retrieved19 June2019.
- ^"Musicology is not Musical PR Ian Pace"(PDF).openaccess.city.ac.uk.openaccess.city.ac.uk. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 29 May 2020.Retrieved28 August2021.
External links
[edit]- 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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