Ian Power
composer, performer
ianhpower at gmail dot com
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EVENTS
Performances
19 September 2025
LOS ANGELES
6:30pm, Free
Music For Your Inbox Fall Screening: It Allowed Them To Produce A Single Sound
Altadena Library Main Branch Community Room, 600 E. Mariposa Street, Altadena, CA 91001
15 October 2025
BALTIMORE
6pm, Free
Live scoring on the DW Griffith silent film Edgar Allan Poe, along with a screening of It Allowed Them To Produce A Single Sound.
11 November 2025
NEW YORK
8pm, $15
Fridman Gallery, 169 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
Brace Record Release Show feat. Bergamot Quartet, Victoria Cheah & Screening of It Allowed Them To Produce A Single Sound.
17 January 2026
NEW YORK
Church of St Luke and St Matthew, 520 Clinton Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238
I'm playing oud with the amazing Ekmeles vocal ensemble on Sinan Samanlı's Üç Anayasa. Also on the program are pieces by Balch, von Schweinitz, Gavett, and Khumalo.
Other Events
11 September 2025
Composition Seminar Presentation at Peabody Institute, Baltimore, Md.
20 October 2025
Composition Colloquium Presentation at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
11 November 2025
Guest Lecture at Manhattan School of Music, New York
Work
Work
A Soul? A Desire?
A 50-minute set of theatrical pieces co-composed with Clint McCallum. We explore religious death, social death, hermeneutic death, political death, and life after death. The centerpiece and inspiration is a medley of pieces by [THE], the San Diego-based performance duo of Ed Harkins and Phil Larson, who were active from the 1970s - 2010s.
This set was premiered at Le Mondo, Baltimore, 30 May 2024, and performed at the Dogstar Festival, Automata, Los Angeles, 22 June 2024.
It Allowed Them to Produce a Single Sound, by Ian Power, excerpts
[THE] medley, complete
BYE BYE LOVE
For orchestra. Commissioned and premiered by the TECTONICS Festival, Ilan Volkov, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Glasgow City Halls, 30 April 2023.
Stream an excerpt below. For further information on score and recording, please contact the composer.
Brace Each Other Dive
for the Bergamot Quartet.
A text-based string quartet that, neither sightreadable nor memorizable, pulls the quartet together in an exhilarating feat of listening, rhythm, and coordination.
Premiered by the Bergamot String Quartet, ICE Rehearsal Space, NYC, 28 October 2020.
Forthcoming on new portrait CD, Fall 2025.
BUOY (after Laurence Crane)
for electric organ and several electronic kitchen appliances.
Premiered at Tzlil Meducan, Tel Aviv, July 2015, and at Red Room, Baltimore, April 2016. Since performed in the US, New Zealand, Denmark, and Japan.
Featured on Maintenance Hums (Carrier, 2020).
Ave Maria: Variations on a Theme by Giacinto Scelsi
An album-length piano piece.
"Easily the best music I have yet reviewed for TEMPO." -Alex Huddleston
Winner of a 2024 Graphic Design USA award for designer Jacob DeGeal.
Premiered by Stephen Lewis at UC San Diego, 19 May 2009. Since performed throughout the United States. Recorded by Anne Rainwater.
WHAT IS LOVE BUT THE PAIN OF WAITING?
For toy trumpet.
Premiered at Rhizome DC, 1 July 2022.
mahrem bir eser | a private work
for Mariel Roberts, cello
Premiered by Mariel Roberts at the Red Room, Baltimore, February 2018.
Featured on Diligence (Wandelweiser, 2020).
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