Sample tracks are excerpts, except where noted. If you can't hear it, turn up the volume, some of the music is very soft. Full tracks available: e-mail me and I can either e-mail you tracks or mail a CD. For all contact use [email protected]
My name is Ian Power, and I am an American musician and composer.
I was born in 1984 in Rochester, New York.
I currently attend Harvard University, and have received degrees from Ithaca College and the University of California, San Diego. I have also attended summer courses in Brevard, Darmstadt, and Schloss Solitude. My principle teachers have been Chaya Czernowin, Steven Kazuo Takasugi, Anthony Burr, Robert Morris, Dana Wilson and Gregory Woodward.
My work incorporates elements of theatre, theater, humor, humour, and awesome sounds. I also perform my own and others' works on any number of instruments, and conduct as well. I am active in I guess what you would call "amateur" musicology, but I am getting pretty good at it.
I'm on facebook and I have a blog, linked to your left.
Recent List of Works:
Günaylın for viola (2009);
The Entire Schnittke Viola Concerto for viola (2009);
Ave Maria: Variations on a Theme by Giacinto Scelsi for piano (2009);
Ligeti for Two Pianos for viola, two pianos, assistants, and tape (2009);
Interlude for percussion quartet and carillon (2009);
Our Hero's Dilemma for Batman and one other performer (2008);
My lips grow dry,...,,,,,,, for 13 players (2008);
"We have not been...picked out...simply to be abandoned..." for two strings and two optional assistants (2007);
I seem to be a verb, for reciter, ceramic coffee mug and butter knife (2007);
Quartet for violin, clarinet, piano and percussion (2007);
in memory of Austin T. Craig for piano (2006);
Recent Writings:
Value Discourses and Britney Spears Fans: An Ethnography (2009);
Indulgence in an Imaginary Past: Inherent Nostalgia in the use of "Ready-Made" Musics (2009);
On the Nature of Aesthetic Evaluation (2007);
Covering a Basis: Tactics of Experiential Manipulation in Skye Sweetnam's cover of "Wild World" (2006);
Motivic Parallelism and Prolongation in Tchaikovsky’s 1st Piano Concerto, Mvt. II (2004).
