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Ian Pace

A pianist to hold aloft the torch of contemporary music from his generation to the next... following in the royal line of David Tudor and Roger Woodward
Piano Journal (summer 2001)

On performances of Michael Finnissy's 5 ½ hour The History of Photography in Sound:

Pace's strength and conviction were magnificent. ...a remarkable journey of discovery. The Guardian

Pace's steely control of the idiom and sheer athletic power were deeply impressive. The Sunday Times

On the 2 CD set of Michael Finnissy's Verdi Transcriptions and other Finnissy works:

Throughout, Ian Pace's technique astounds, and his enthusiasm for this music is infectious. In his booklet note he calls the Verdi work 'one of the most significant contemporary cycles for piano'. His playing, and a splendidly sonorous recording, make that claim seem an understatement.
International Record Review

Pace's hands traverse the keyboard with a vertiginous velocity matched by supreme delicacy of touch. And his pearly voicing of the multiple trills with wich the 6th Concerto ends is further evidence of absolute technical control.
Gramophone

The result is something thoroughly new, and entirely compelling, especially when given the ardent advocacy of Ian Pace whose ability to combine thoughtfulness with extreme virtuosity can be heard nowhere better than here.
BBC Music Magazine

On Tracts, Ian Pace's CD on NMC including music by Richard Barrett, Brian Ferneyhough and others:

Ian Pace is a powerful advocate for 'hard-edged' contemporary piano music, in which he is an acknowledged leader at the keyboard... this uncommonly well-filled CD is a perfect introduction to the esoteric field in which he flourishes... you will surely marvel at Ian Pace's virtuosity.
Music on the Web

Britain's most uncompromising champion of new piano music tests the limits of mental power and physical prestidigitation in this collection
The Observer

For further information on the Ian Pace or his availability, please send an e-mail to Julia Haferkorn at: info@haferkornassociates.com