Ian Power
associate professor
Klein Family School of Communications Design
Additional Roles:
director, B.A. in Arts Production and Management program
Contact Information:
E-mail: ipower@ubalt.edu
Ian Power's websites:
ianpowerOMG.com
ianpoweromg.bandcamp.com
Ph.D., Harvard University
M.A., University of California, San Diego
B.M., Ithaca College
Ian Power received his Ph.D. in Music Composition from Harvard University, his M.A. in Composition from the University of California, San Diego, and his B.M. in Composition from Ithaca College. He has been Director of Arts Production & Management at UBalt since 2017, and taught courses here as an adjunct since 2013, as well as teaching as an adjunct at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University in Musicology and Music Theory, in musical composition at UMBC in 2014, and was a visiting lecturer in music at Harvard University in 2016. In 2018, Ian won the Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award.
Ian has three albums of his work: Diligence, out on Edition Wandelweiser Records (Germany) in June 2020; Maintenance Hums out on Carrier Records (Chicago) in September 2020; and Ave Maria: Variations on Theme by Giacinto Scelsi, out on Carrier in October 2023. In April 2023, his piece BYE BYE LOVE was premiered by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Glasgow.
Ian’s music is inscrutable, warm, insistent, and performer-driven, and has been performed by ensembles and soloists in the US, UK, Germany, Denmark, and Israel. He performs his own work and others’ on piano, electric organ, and other instruments. He has performed in Baltimore at the Red Room, Wright Theater, EMP Collective, Copycat Building, Cork Factory, An die Musik!, MICA, War Memorial, Baltimore Theater Project, and house and underground venues. His writing on rhetoric in new music and reviews of CDs and performances are published in TEMPO, and he has lectured at the American Musicological Society, American Studies Association, and universities in the US, UK, and Turkey. Ian studied with Chaya Czernowin, Steven Takasugi, and John Luther Adams. He also performs traditional Turkish music on the oud.
Ian lives with his partner, son, and daughter in Pigtown, and spends time with family in Rochester, New York, Orange County, California, and Istanbul, Turkey.