Ian Geoffrey Pace, born in 1968 in Hartlepool, United Kingdom, is a British pianist and musicologist renowned for his performances of contemporary classical music. He studied at Chetham's School of Music, The Queen's College, Oxford, and the Juilliard School in New York under György Sándor. Pace is celebrated for his interpretations of 20th- and 21st-century works, particularly by British, French, German, and Italian composers, and has premiered pieces by Richard Barrett, Luc Brewaeys, Michael Finnissy, Brian Ferneyhough, and others. In 1996, he performed a six-concert series of Finnissy’s complete piano works, and in 2013, he released The History Of Photography In Sound. He regularly collaborated with the Arditti Quartet and served as the artistic director of Topologies. In addition to performing, Pace has published extensively on music theory, performance practice, and modernism in music.
