IAN PACE will take on the marathon challenge of performing three concerts in one day for the York Late Music series on Saturday at the Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate, York, to mark his 50th birthday year.

In Ian Pace At 50, a three-part journey through 20th century piano repertoire, he will perform music by 27 composers, featuring 100 years of composer birthdays from 1854 to 1954 and 100 years of new piano music.

This major survey by the indefatigable Pace will take in Schoenberg and Ives, working at the start of the century, right through to Michael Finnissy, Ligeti and Judith Weir at the close.

Concert One from 11.30am to 1pm will comprise Schoenberg's Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke; Ives' The Alcotts (from the Concord Sonata); Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales; Poulenc's Trois mouvements perpétuels; Lili Boulanger's Trois morceaux; Bartók's Allegro Barbaro; Debussy's Estampes; Busoni's Nuit de Noel; Satie's Enfantillages pittoresques; Scriabin's Deux morceaux and Prokofiev's Toccata in D minor Op. 11.

Concert Two, from 3pm to 4pm, features Janácek's Four Pieces from On An Overgrown Path; Webern's Variations for Piano; Crawford Seeger's Piano Study in Mixed Accents; Cage's In A Landscape; Tippett's Piano Sonata No. 2 and Messiaen's Three Pieces from Vingt Regards.

Concert Three will be preceded by a pre-concert talk at the earlier-than-usual starting time of 6.30pm, when concert-goers may join composer, pianist and conductor Dr Edward Caine and composer David Power for a discussion about the music, plus a complimentary glass of wine The concert will follow at 7.30pm with a Pace programme of Stockhausen's Klavierstücke IX; John Adams's China Gates; Judith Weir's The Art Of Touching The Keyboard; Boulez's Trope (from the Third Sonata); Thea Musgrave's Monologue; Howard Skempton's Well, Well, Cornelius; Tristan Murail's Cloches d’Adieu et un Sourire; Michael Finnissy's Snow Drift; Takemitsu's Rain Tree Sketch and Ligeti's Three Pieces from Etudes Book One.

Day tickets are available in advance for £18, concessions £14, at latemusic.org/event/ian-pace-a-three-part-journey-through-twentieth-century-piano-repertoire/. Alternatively, the first concert costs £7, concessions/students £5, on the door or online; second concert, £5/£3; third, £10/£8.