Ian Power is a composer and performer in Los Angeles and Baltimore. He has been commissioned by Wet Ink, Heather Roche, Mariel Roberts, and performed in the US, UK, Germany, Denmark, Israel, Japan, and New Zealand. He has three albums: Diligence on Edition Wandelweiser Records; Maintenance Hums on Carrier Records; and Ave Maria: Variations on Theme by Giacinto Scelsi, on Carrier in October 2023. In April 2023, his piece BYE BYE LOVE was premiered by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Glasgow. He has a music video coming out on Music for Your Inbox in Fall 2025.

Ian is Associate Professor and Director of Arts Production & Management at the University of Baltimore. His writing on rhetoric in new music and reviews of CDs and performances are published in Cambridge University Press’s TEMPO Journal, and he has lectured at conferences and universities in the US, UK, and Turkey.

Ian studied primarily with Chaya Czernowin, as well as with Steven Takasugi, John Luther Adams, Antoine Beuger, Anthony Burr, Robert Morris, and Dana Wilson. He grew up in Rochester, N.Y., and plays traditional Turkish music on the oud.