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Ian Pace presents a solo recital, as part of our City Summer Sounds festival, comprising works by Liszt and Skryabin, world premieres, and Pascal Dusapin's Études pour piano, a major cycle of which Ian gave the world premiere in the Festival d’automne in 2002, and subsequently recorded for Naïve Records to great acclaim.
The event will be preceded by a pre-concert talk by Professor Kenneth Smith (University of Liverpool). Please note the early start times. The event is free to attend, but seats are limited, so please do sign up to attend, via the 'register now' button above.
- 6pm: Pre-concert talk
- 6:45pm: Concert
Programme:
- Claude Debussy, ‘Cloches à travers les feuilles’; ‘Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut’ from Images, 2ème série (1907)
- Aleksander Skryabin, Sonata No. 9, op. 68, Black Mass (1912-13)
- Steven Berryman, ...brightly illuminated, vividly seen (2011) (World premiere)
- Bettina Skrzypczak, Daphnes Lied (2002)
- Franz Liszt, Totentanz, version for solo piano, S.525 (1847-53, rev. 1859-64, version for solo piano 1865)
- Short interval -
- Hannah Barnes, presence of the absence of the presence (2023) (World premiere)
- Pascal Dusapin, Études pour piano 1-7 (1999-2001)
About Ian Pace
Professor Ian Pace is a pianist of long-established reputation, specialising in the farthest reaches of musical modernism and transcendental virtuosity, as well as a writer and musicologist focusing on issues of performance, music and society and the avant-garde.
Based in London since 1993, he has pursued an active international career, performing in 24 countries and at most major European venues and festivals. His vast repertoire of all periods focuses particularly upon music of the 20th and 21st Century. He has given world premieres of over 250 piano works.
He has played with orchestras including the Orchestre de Paris under Christoph Eschenbach (with whom he premiered and recorded Dusapin's piano concerto À Quia), the SWF Orchestra in Stuttgart under Rupert Huber, and the Dortmund Philharmonic under Bernhard Kontarsky (with whom he gave a series of very well-received performances of Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand).
He has recorded nearby 40 CDs, including Michael Finnissy's five-and-a-half hour The History of Photography in Sound (of which he gave the world premiere in London in 2001) and the complete piano works of Brian Ferneyhough. Forthcoming recordings include the Piano Sonatas of Pierre Boulez, and John Cage's Music of Changes.
He has previously held positions at the University of Southampton and Dartington College of Arts, before becoming Professor of Music at the Department of Music at City, University of London. His areas of academic expertise include 19th century performance practice (especially relating to the music of Liszt and Brahms), modernist aesthetics, the Frankfurt School of thought, contemporary performance practice and issues, music and culture under fascism, the post-1945 avant-garde, in particular in West Germany, and issues of critical musicology and musicological method.
He has contributed to and co-edited a number of monographs and volumes, including Critical Perspectives on Michael Finnissy: Bright Futures, Dark Pasts, co-edited with Nigel McBride, (Routledge, 2019) and Researching and Writing on Contemporary Art and Artists: Challenges, Practices, and Complexities, co-edited with Christopher Wiley (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Forthcoming publications include monographs on music in the Weimar Republic and post-war Germany, a book on Brahms Performance Practice, and a history of specialist musical education in Britain.
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