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IAN PACE

pianist

SELECTED CONCERTS 1999-2001


***WORLD PREMIERE   **COUNTRY PREMIERE   *CITY PREMIERE


9 December 2001: Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Arts

MICHAEL FINNISSY - History of Photography in Sound (complete)



30 October 2001: Sheffield Firth Hall

BEETHOVEN - Sonata in F minor Op. 57, Appassionata
BRAHMS - Variations on a Theme of Paganini - Book I
BARTOK - Etudes
DEBUSSY - Etudes - selection
XENAKIS - Mists, Evryali



13 October 2001: Transit Festival, Leuven, Belgium

MICHAEL FINNISSY - History of Photography in Sound (complete)  **



12 October 2001 : With Arditti Quartet, Graz, Austria

WALTER ZIMMERMANN - De Umbris Idearum  ***
BEAT FURRER - Spur



4 October 2001 : With Topologies, The Warehouse, London

JAMES DILLON - portrait concert including
The Book of Elements, Volume I
The Book of Elements, Volume III
  **
L'Évolution du Vol   *



16 September 2001 : ...antasten... International Piano Festival, Heilbronn

JAMES DILLON - The Book of Elements, Volume I, II & III
THOMAS LAUCK - Spazieren I/II
JAMES CLARKE - new piece
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH - Opus Contra Naturam **



14 September 2001 : ...antasten... International Piano Festival, Heilbronn, with James Clapperton , piano

HORATIO RADULESCU - Outer Time  ***



13 September 2001 : ...antasten... International Piano Festival, Heilbronn

ROBERT H. P. PLATZ - Klavierstück IV



29 June 2001 : Goldsmiths College, London

BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH - Opus Contra Naturam *



13 June 2001 : IRCAM, Paris, Agora Festival

BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH - Epigrams; Three Pieces for Piano;
Lemma-Icon-Epigram; Opus Contra Naturam
 **



10 May 2001 : Fulbright Association Concert, US Embassy, London

DEIRDRE GRIBBON - Rothko Chord
ROBERT SAXTON - Chacony (for the left hand) **



4 April 2001 : "Transcendental Pianism" concert series, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.

LISZT - Le Jeux d'Eau aux Ville d'Este
RAVEL- Jeux d'Eau
SALVATORE SCIARRINO - Étude de Concert; Anamorfosi
RAVEL - Gaspard de la Nuit
SALVATORE SCIARRINO - ...de la Nuit
PAUL RHYS - Not I
REBECCA SAUNDERS - "Mirror, mirror on the wall"
JAMES DILLON - The Book of Elements, Volume III **
JAY ALAN YIM - tendril
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH - Opus Contra Naturam **



20 March 2001 : Archipel Festival, Geneva, Switzerland

KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN - Klavierstück IX
SALVATORE SCIARRINO - Sonata No 5
PASCAL DUSAPIN - Études 1-4 **



9 March 2001 : Berlin Bienalle, Germany

PASCAL DUSAPIN - New Études ***
JAMES DILLON - The Book of Elements, Volume III ***
PIERRE BOULEZ - Sonata No 2



26 February 2001 : Great Hall, King's College, London

Early evening programme:
N.A. HUBER - Darrabuka; Beds and Brackets; Disappearances
Main programme to include:
GYÖRGY LIGETI - Touches Bloqueés
MAURICIO KAGEL - Metapiece/Mimetics
RICHARD EMSLEY - For Piano 10
HELMUT LACHENMANN - Serynade
SALVATORE SCIARRINO - Nocturnes
SYLVANO BUSSOTTI - Pour Clavier



9 February 2001 : Wigmore Hall, London. A concert sponsored by the John Ogdon Foundation.

JOHN OGDON - Ballade
LISZT - Mephisto Waltz No. 3 **
JOHN OGDON - Sonata
PETER MAXWELL DAVIES - Five Pieces Op. 2 **
JOHN OGDON - Theme and Variations
SCRIABIN - Sonata No. 10
BUSONI - All'Italia; Turandot's Frauengemach
JOHN OGDON - fromKaleidoscope: Sonata No. 6: Reminiscences of Scriabin; Sonata No. 11: Sonata super Boris
MUSSORGSKY-OGDON - Varlaam's Song



28 January 2001 : Duke's Hall, Royal Academy of Music, London

MICHAEL FINNISSY- History of Photography in Sound (complete) ***



7 December 2000 : Bank of Ireland Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland

MICHAEL FINNISSY - Snowdrift
RICHARD EMSLEY - For Piano 10 **
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH - Opus Contra Naturam **
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE - Harrison's Clocks Nos. 3, 4, 5



25 November 2000 : Beethoven-Haus, Bonn, Germany

BEETHOVEN - Sonatas Op. 31 No. 1, Op. 57 "Appassionata"
MICHAEL TIPPETT - Sonatas Nos. 1 & 3



22 November 2000 : Keele University

GYÖRGY LIGETI - Touches Bloqueés
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH - Opus Contra Naturam
HELMUT LACHENMANN - Guero
REBECCA SAUNDERS - "Mirror, mirror on the wall"
GYÖRGY LIGETI - Galamb Borong
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN - Klavierstuck X
GYÖRGY LIGETI - White on White



20 November 2000 1 p.m.: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, St Paul's Hall

HELMUT LACHENMANN - Wiegenmusik; Guero
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH - Opus Contra Naturam**
MAURICIO KAGEL - À Deux Mains; Impromptu II
WOLFGANG RIHM - Nachstudie



19 November 2000 : De Ijsbreker, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

MILTON BABBITT - Three Compositions for Piano
BO NILLSON - Quantitaten
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH - Three Pieces; Opus Contra Naturum**
JEAN BARRAQUÉ - Sonata



15 November 2000 : Guest Artist with Ensemble Musica Temporale, Dresden

FRIEDRICH GOLDMANN - augenblick
KNUT MÜLLER- Frame 52
VOLKER STAUB - Curare



27 October 2000 : Vestry Hall, Ranelagh Road, Ealing W5 - London College of Music, 1:15 p.m., with viola player Dov Scheindlin

Programme to include: SCHUMANN - Fantasiestucke
BRITTEN - Lachrymae



26 October 2000 : Vestry Hall, Ranelagh Road, Ealing W5 - London College of Music, 1:15 p.m.

MAURICIO KAGEL - MM 51; Passe Compose; Impromptu II** ; An Tasten

To be followed by a lecture on the music of Mauricio Kagel



19 October 2000 : The Music School, Durham University, 1:15 p.m.

CHRISTOPHER FOX - Prime Site
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN - Klavierstuck X



14 October 2000 : Flanders Festival, Stuc-zaal Vlamingenstraat, Leuven, Belgium

MILTON BABBITT - Three Compositions for Piano
BO NILLSON - Quantitaten
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH - Three Pieces; Opus Contra Naturum***
JEAN BARRAQUÉ - Sonata



28 September 2000 : Rebecca Saunders Portrait Concert, with TOPOLOGIES, The Warehouse, London

Solo: REBECCA SAUNDERS - "Mirror, mirror on the wall"
GALINA USTVOLSKAYA - Sonata No. 6
Ensemble: KAIJA SAARIAHO- Folia
GALINA USTVOLSKAYA - Trio
REBECCA SAUNDERS - Duo; The Underside of Green; Quartet



27 September 2000, 6 p.m. : MusICA, Palais des Fetes, Strasbourg, France


SALVATORE SCIARRINO - Sonata No. 1
MICHAEL FINNISSY - Snowdrift
JAMES DILLON - The Book of Elements Chapter 1
PASCAL DUSAPIN - Études Nos. 2 & 4 ***
IVAN WYSCHNEGRADSKY - Étude sur le carré magique sonorite
IANNIS XENAKIS - Evryali



22 September 2000 : Guest Artist with Arditti Quartet: MusICA, Strasbourg

BEAT FURRER - Spur**



18 September 2000 : Hartlepool Town Hall

FREDERIC CHOPIN - Ballade No. 1 in G minor
FRANZ LISZT - Sonata in B minor
CLAUDE DEBUSSY - Études (selected)
GYÖRGY LIGETI - Études (selected)
SERGEI PROKOFIEFF - Sonata No. 6



5 September 2000 : Guest Artist with Ensemble Musica Temporale, EXPO Hannover

FRIEDRICH GOLDMANN - augenblick ***
KNUT MÜLLER- Frame 52 ***
VOLKER STAUB - Curare***



19 August 2000 : Garrett Centre, Mansford Street, Bethnal Green, London

3 p.m. MARK R. TAYLOR - Patterns 3
LAMONTE YOUNG- X for Henry Flint
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN - Klavierstuck IX
HELMUT LACHENMANN - Ein Kinderspiel
NIKOLAUS A. HUBER - Darrabuka

5 p.m.: Round Table Discussion on 'Whither Experimental Music?'

7:30 p.m. MARK R. TAYLOR - Lijn***
GIACINTO SCELSI- Action Music
HORATIU RADULESCU - Sonata No. 1 "cradle to abysses"
HORATIU RADULESCU - Sonata No. 4 "like a well ... older than God"
TOSHI ICHIYANAGI - Piano Media 1
MARK R. TAYLOR - Piano Piece 1980 No. 1 ***



27 July 2000 : BMIC, London

JEREMY MARCHANT - Piano Piece 1
BACH/BUSONI - Chaconne in D minor
DAVID LUMSDAINE - Ruhe sanfte, sanfte ruh'
MICHAEL FINNISSY - Bachsche Nachtdichtungen**
BRAHMS - Klavierstücke Op. 118
RENÉ WOLLHAUSER - Drei Klavierstucke
BEAT FURRER - voicelessness (the snow has no voice)
NIKOLAUS A. HUBER - Beds and Brackets ***



12 July 2000 : Summer Festival, Paxton House, nr. Berwick-upon-Tweed

GYÖRGY KURTÁG - Játékok (selections)
GYÖRGY KURTÁG - Transcriptions of Frescobaldi, Schútz, Purcell, Bach

solo and duet works with Philip Mead, piano



5 July 2000 : Cheltenham International Music Festival

CLAUDE DEBUSSY - Pagodes
LEOPOLD GODOWSKY - Phonoramas (Java Suite) (selections)
CLAUDE DEBUSSY - Canopé
ANDRÉ JOLIVET - "Mana" suite
GYÖRGY LIGETI - Der Zauberlehrling; Galamb borong (Etudes No. 10 & 7)
CLAUDE DEBUSSY - Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut

plus music for gamelan



29 April 2000 : St John's, Smith Square, London, UK

RACHMANINOFF - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
STRAVINSKY - Petrouchka

with Amadeus Orchestra - Philip Mackenzie, conductor



28 April 2000 : Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, UK

RACHMANINOFF - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
STRAVINSKY - Petrouchka

with Amadeus Orchestra - Philip Mackenzie, conductor



15 April 2000 : Bangor Festival of Contemporary Music

MAURICIO KAGEL - Complete Piano Works:
Metapiece/Mimetics; MM 51;
An Tasten; Passe Compose;
A Deux Mains; Impromptu II**

CHRISTOPHER FOX - Schwärme
PWYLL AP SION - Waltz
GUTO PUW - Ffantasia III***



7 April 2000 : University of Champaign-Urbana, U.S.A.

MESSIAEN - Cantéodjaya
PIERRE BOULEZ - Sonata No. 2
REBECCA SAUNDERS- Mirror, Mirror on the Wall **
GWYN PRITCHARD - From Time to Time **
ALWYNNE PRITCHARD - Invisible Cities **
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN - Klavierstuck X



30th March 2000 : State University of New York at Buffalo, U.S.A.

JAMES DILLON- Spleen
JEAN BARRAQUÉ- Sonata
MORTON FELDMAN- Extensions 3
ALWYNNE PRITCHARD- Invisible Cities**
MICHAEL FINNISSY - Alkan-Paganini**
SAM MIRELMAN- Sans Hauteur***
SALVATORE SCIARRINO - Sonata No. 3



21 March 2000: Logos Foundation, Ghent, Belgium

LUC BREWAEYS - Pyramids of Siberia
N A HUBER - Beds and Brackets
ALWYNNE PRITCHARD - Invisible Cities **
REBECCA SAUNDERS- Mirror, Mirror on the Wall **
PIERRE BOULEZ - Sonata No. 2



5 March 2000 : Dukes Hall, Royal Academy of Music, London

ELENA FIRSOVA - Hymn to Spring



29 February 2000 : Sheffield University

BEETHOVEN - Sonata in Bb Op. 106 "Hammerklavier"
PAUL RHYS - Preludes
PIERRE BOULEZ - Sonata No. 2



3 February 2000 : Welsh College of Music and Drama

KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN - Klavierstücke VII, VIII
GWYN PRITCHARD - From Time to Time
ALWYNNE PRITCHARD - Invisible Cities
REBECCA SAUNDERS- Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
GARETH DAVIES - Four Études



25 January 2000 : Birmingham Conservatoire

Lecture-Recital



17 January 2000 : TOPOLOGIES Concert, Cheltenham Town Hall

MORGAN HAYES - Trio***
PASCAL DUSAPIN - Trio Rombache**
JAMES DILLON - Redemption
CHRISTOPHER FOX - Straight Lines in Broken Times 2
MAURICIO KAGEL- Trio



13 January 2000 : BMIC, London

LUC BREWAEYS - In Between**; Pyramids of Siberia**
REBECCA SAUNDERS - Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
JAMES ERBER - Fluctuations**
STEFAN VAN EYCKEN - Titanic Light**
CHRISTOPHER FOX - Schwarme**
MICHAEL FINNISSY - My Parents' Generation Thought That War Meant Something**



REVIEW HIGHLIGHTS

"Pace plays with clarity and fervour throughout" The Sunday Times

"Pianist Ian Pace's performances are exceptional and insightful" Classic CD

"Highly recommended." The Wire

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