Event overview
The Contemporary Music Research Unit welcomes back Ian Pace to give this early evening recital of works by Ferneyhough, Redgate, Wolpe, Redhead and Beethoven-Liszt.
Programme:
Beethoven-Liszt: Symphony No. 7 in A, op. 92
Brian Ferneyhough: Quirl
Roger Redgate: Monk
Roger Redgate: Beuys
Lauren Redhead: nothing really changes
Stefan Wolpe: Piano Sonata No. 1, ‘Stehende Musik’
Ian Pace is an internationally renowned pianist, musicologist and writer. He studied at Chetham’s School of Music, The Queen’s College, Oxford, and as a Fulbright Scholar at the Juilliard School, where his teacher was György Sándor. Later he completed a PhD at Cardiff University on new music in occupied Germany and its roots in the Weimar and Nazi eras. He has played in over 25 countries, recorded over 40 CDs, and given over 300 world premieres. He has long been strongly associated with avant-garde music, performing regularly the ‘classics’ of Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis, John Cage, Mauricio Kagel, György Ligeti and many others, and amongst subsequent generations has been a major interpreter of the music of Richard Barrett, James Dillon, Pascal Dusapin, Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Finnissy (whose complete piano music he performed in 1996 and 2016), Christopher Fox, Sam Hayden, Volker Heyn, Helmut Lachenmann, Horatiu Radulescu, Wolfgang Rihm, Frederic Rzewski, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Walter Zimmermann. He also plays a wide repertoire from Beethoven onwards, and in 2022 performed a cycle of the complete Beethoven Symphonies transcribed for piano by Liszt. He has worked at City, University of London since 2010 and was made Professor in 2021. His research and teaching are wide-ranging, encompassing nineteenth- and twentieth-century musical history and historiography, especially relating to Germany from the period from the Weimar Republic until the early post-war era, critical musical analysis, aesthetics of romanticism, modernism and postmodernism, historical performance practice and contemporary performance studies, critical musicological issues especially relating to ethnography and autoethnography, and music in tertiary musical education; as well as wider teaching of literature, art and philosophy, sociology of culture and classical social theory. He has published articles in many academic journals, a monograph on Michael Finnissy’s 'The History of Photography in Sound' published by Divine Art in 2013, several edited volumes, and is currently working on a new biography of Karlheinz Stockhausen for Reaktion Books, as well as studies of musical modernism in Germany after 1945, and a history of specialist music education in the UK.
Free event, all welcome and no need to book.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Nov 2023 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm |
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