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Ian Scarfe enjoys a wide ranging career as a concert pianist, an organizer of large-scale musical happenings, and as an advocate for the arts. The majority of his work comes in the form of over 150 concerts each year, as a soloist, ensemble artist, and director.
His career as a performer is bolstered by his thoughtful, humorous, and charismatic stage presence. Ian enjoys sharing the history of the music being performed, giving specific listening guides about it, and generally acting as both a performer and a musical tour-guide. He is the pre-concert lecturer for Chamber Music Monterey Bay and a guest speaker with other organizations. He produces a patron-supported YouTube series called “In the Practice Room with Ian”, and broadcasts monthly live-streamed concerts from his living room. |
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He is the founder and director of the Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival, founded in 2011, which has presented hundreds of free concerts and school programs across rural Northern California. Dozens of professional musicians from around the world have come to the Trinity Alps region to participate in artist retreats and tours. In the San Francisco Bay Area, Scarfe is the director of Chamber Music at the Century Club, which brings ensemble concerts to the beautiful ballroom of one of San Francisco's historic buildings. Scarfe also curates Gravity and Grace, a series at Monument SF that blends aerial dance and circus arts with classical music.
He is on faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and teaches occasional private lessons to dedicated advanced students. He coaches chamber music students through the Crowden School in Berkeley and Chamber Musicians of Northern California, an organization that creates workshops for adult amateurs.
He has been the host for concerts at orchestra halls, jazz clubs, and private homes, and has been the narrator for several children's concerts, including “Peter and the Wolf'', “Babar the Elephant'', and Rudyard Kipling's “Just So Stories”. His professional sports career featured 5 years as the starting pianist of the San Francisco 49ers... which involved spending game days performing background music in the Stadium Club Restaurant at Candlestick Park.
Born in Bryan, Texas, and raised on a farm, Ian moved to Oregon to study at Willamette University in Salem. Since 2006, he has lived in San Francisco, where he earned graduate and postgraduate diplomas from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He lives near the Pacific Ocean in the beautiful Presidio of San Francisco.
He is on faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and teaches occasional private lessons to dedicated advanced students. He coaches chamber music students through the Crowden School in Berkeley and Chamber Musicians of Northern California, an organization that creates workshops for adult amateurs.
He has been the host for concerts at orchestra halls, jazz clubs, and private homes, and has been the narrator for several children's concerts, including “Peter and the Wolf'', “Babar the Elephant'', and Rudyard Kipling's “Just So Stories”. His professional sports career featured 5 years as the starting pianist of the San Francisco 49ers... which involved spending game days performing background music in the Stadium Club Restaurant at Candlestick Park.
Born in Bryan, Texas, and raised on a farm, Ian moved to Oregon to study at Willamette University in Salem. Since 2006, he has lived in San Francisco, where he earned graduate and postgraduate diplomas from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He lives near the Pacific Ocean in the beautiful Presidio of San Francisco.