Professor Ian Pace
pianist and professor of music at City, University of London
Ian Pace is an internationally-renowned pianist, interdisciplinary scholar and writer on musical, cultural and educational issues. As a pianist he has premiered over 350 works, recorded 45 CDs and performed in 27 countries, with a focus on avant-garde music. He is professor of Music, Culture and Society at City St George’s, University of London, where he has worked for over 16 years, having previously worked at the University of Southampton and Dartington College of Arts.
His scholarship interacts with musicology, sociology, history, politics and culture. His areas of primary expertise include German history, society, politics and music in the twentieth century (especially in the Weimar Republic and post-1945 area), music, culture and fascism, the Cold War and its implications for culture, modernist aesthetics in music and other arts, sociology of culture, historical and contemporary performance, performance studies, and the interactions between scholarship and practice, music and other historiography. Specifically, the history and sociology of higher education, sexual and other assault in elite education, music analysis, urban sociology (currently undertaking a research project on Clydeside), the sociology of romance and relationships, the work of Theodor W. Adorno and the Frankfurt School, twentieth-century French theory, ethnography and autoethnography, critical musicology and wider modern art, literature, theatre, architecture, cinema and media.
He has published three books on the music of Michael Finnissy, with which he is also associated as a pianist, as well as books on researching and writing on contemporary artists, and many articles. He has also written more widely for the Telegraph, Spectator, Critic, London Review of Books, Times Higher Education, Times Education Supplement and appeared frequently on broadcast media. Forthcoming books include edited collections on rethinking contemporary musicology, on writing on contemporary musicians, a new biography of Karlheinz Stockhausen and a history of specialist music education in the UK.
Follow Ian at @ianpacemain and @drianpace.
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