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'''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 City|New York]]. His main teacher was the Hungarian pianist [[György Sándor]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ianpace.com/?page_id=2|title=Biography {{!}} Ian Pace|website=Ianpace.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-06-19}}</ref>


== Repertoire ==
'''Ian Pace''' (born [[1968]] in [[Hartlepool]]) is a British pianist.
Born in [[Hartlepool]], 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 by [[Richard Barrett (composer)|Richard Barrett]], [[Luc Brewaeys]], [[Aaron Cassidy]], [[James Clarke (composer)|James Clarke]], [[Raymond Deane]], [[James Dillon (composer)|James Dillon]], [[Gordon Downie]], [[Pascal Dusapin]], [[Richard Emsley]], [[James Erber]], [[Brian Ferneyhough]], [[Michael Finnissy]], [[Christopher Fox (composer)|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]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.operamusica.com/artist/ian-pace/|title=Ian Pace – Pianist|website=Operamusica.com|language=en|access-date=2019-06-19}}</ref>


His huge repertoire also includes more established works by [[Pierre Boulez]], [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], [[Jean Barraqué]], [[Iannis Xenakis]], [[György Ligeti]], [[Luigi Nono (composer)|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.<ref>{{Cite web |url = http://www.mdt.co.uk/finnissy-michael-the-history-of-sound-ian-pace-metier-5cds.html|title = FINNISSY, MICHAEL The History of Photography in Sound. Ian Pace. Metier 5cds|website = www.mdt.co.uk|publisher = www.mdt.co.uk|date = |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170917152048/http://www.mdt.co.uk/finnissy-michael-the-history-of-sound-ian-pace-metier-5cds.html|accessdate = 2021-08-28|archive-date = 2017-09-17}}</ref> He regularly performs together with the [[Arditti Quartet]], and is also artistic director of the ensemble Topologies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000n7t|title=BBC Radio 3 – Hear and Now, Ian Pace, contemporary virtuoso pianist|website=BBC|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-06-19}}</ref>
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]].


== Recordings ==
He 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 by [[Richard Barrett (composer)|Richard Barrett]], [[Luc Brewaeys]], [[Aaron Cassidy]], [[James Clarke (composer)|James Clarke]], [[Raymond Deane]], [[James Dillon (composer)|James Dillon]], [[Gordon Downie]], [[Pascal Dusapin]], [[Richard Emsley]], [[James Erber]], [[Brian Ferneyhough]], [[Michael Finnissy]], [[Christopher Fox (composer)|Christopher Fox]], [[Volker Heyn]], [[Wieland Hoban]], [[Evan Johnson]], [[Hilda Paredes]], [[Horatiu Radulescu]], [[Frederic Rzewski]], [[Howard Skempton]], [[Gerhard Stäbler]], [[Serge Verstockt]], [[Jay Alan Yim]] and [[Walter Zimmermann]].
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 Records|Mode]], [[Naïve Records|Naïve]], [[NMC Records|NMC]] and [[Stradivarius (record label)|Stradivarius]] labels, including discs of Dusapin, Finnissy, Fox, Zimmermann and the [[New Complexity|new complexity]] disc ''Tracts''. From 2003 to 2006 he was [[Arts and Humanities Research Council|AHRC]] Creative and Performing Arts Research Fellow at the [[University of Southampton]]. From 2007 to 2010 he was lecturer in Musicology at [[Dartington College of Arts]] and in 2010 took up a lecturership at [[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.<ref name=":0" />


== Music theory ==
His huge repertoire also includes more established works by [[Pierre Boulez]], [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], [[Jean Barraqué]], [[Iannis Xenakis]], [[György Ligeti]], [[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]]''. He regularly performs together with the [[Arditti Quartet]], and is also artistic director of the ensemble Topologies.
As a musicologist, his areas of speciality are 19th-century [[performance practice]], music and society, the work of [[Theodor Adorno]], and post-1945 modernism.<ref>{{Cite web |url = https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/6695/1/Musicology%20is%20not%20Musical%20PR%20%282013%29.pdf|title = Musicology is not Musical PR Ian Pace|website = openaccess.city.ac.uk|publisher = openaccess.city.ac.uk|date = |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200529131429/https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/6695/1/Musicology%20is%20not%20Musical%20PR%20%282013%29.pdf|accessdate = 2021-08-28|archive-date = 2020-05-29}}</ref>


== References ==
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 Records|Mode]], [[Naïve Records|Naïve]], [[NMC]] and [[Stradivarius]] labels, including discs of Dusapin, Finnissy, Fox, Zimmermann and the [[New Complexity|new complexity]] disc ''Tracts''. From 2003-2006 he was [[AHRC]] Creative and Performing Arts Research Fellow at the [[University of Southampton]]. From 2007 to 2010 he was Lecturer in Musicology at [[Dartington College of Arts]] and in 2010 took up a lecturership at [[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. As a musicologist, his areas of speciality are nineteenth-century [[performance practice]], music and society, the work of [[Theodor Adorno]], and post-1945 modernism.
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== External links ==
Pace is also known for his leftist views on music and musicology and his advocacy of [[modernist aesthetics]].
* [https://ianpace.com/ Ian Pace's Homepage]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110929012048/http://www.falmouth.ac.uk/component/contacts/0/view/performance-contemporary-music-ma-379/ian-pace-220/index.html Homepage at Dartington College (now part of University College, Falmouth)]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110908133442/http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2001/Feb01/pace1.htm Ian Pace in interview with Marc Bridle]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20210410115150/http://compositiontoday.com/interviews/ian_pace.asp Interview at Composition Today]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6OMv54W8lU&t=43s 'Podcast 5: Pianist/writer/musicologist Ian Pace. Gill's article & a variety of related subjects.'] Interview by Tigran Arakelyan


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==External links==
*[http://www.ianpace.com/ Ian Pace's Homepage]
*[http://www.falmouth.ac.uk/component/contacts/0/view/performance-contemporary-music-ma-379/ian-pace-220/index.html Homepage at Dartington College (now part of University College, Falmouth)]
*[http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2001/Feb01/pace1.htm Ian Pace in interview with Marc Bridle]
*[http://www.compositiontoday.com/interviews/ian_pace.asp Interview at Composition Today]


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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 Hartlepool, 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 by Richard 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 Yim and Walter Zimmermann.[2]

His huge repertoire also includes more established works by Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Jean Barraqué, Iannis Xenakis, György Ligeti, 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, Métier, Mode, Naïve, NMC and Stradivarius labels, including discs of Dusapin, Finnissy, Fox, Zimmermann and the new complexity disc Tracts. From 2003 to 2006 he was AHRC Creative and Performing Arts Research Fellow at the University of Southampton. From 2007 to 2010 he was lecturer in Musicology at Dartington College of Arts and in 2010 took up a lecturership at 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 performance practice, music and society, the work of Theodor Adorno, and post-1945 modernism.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Biography | Ian Pace". Ianpace.com. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Ian Pace – Pianist". Operamusica.com. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "BBC Radio 3 – Hear and Now, Ian Pace, contemporary virtuoso pianist". BBC. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  5. ^ "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.

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