Albert Pace was born in Hamrun in 1958. He studied Music Theory and Composition with Carmelo Pace and with Charles Camilleri, with the latter both privately and at the University of Malta, where he graduated in Music Studies in 1994, with a dissertation entitled Texture in late Twentieth Century Music.

In 1998 Pace was awarded an M.Mus. degree in Composition with distinction by the University of Edinburgh, for his Overlapping Backgrounds for solo piano, a challenging, complex work, premiered by Scottish pianist Murray McLachlan in Edinburgh in February 2001. In 2004 his Un reste de suite was partly premiered in Germany by well-known German harpist Florence Sitruk, winner of the Bucchi Harp Competition, 2000. Other compositions of his have been performed in Malta, Edinburgh, London and Wales.

Pace was awarded a D.Mus. in Composition by the University of Malta in 2007. His composition portfolio consisted of: a Trio for clarinet, violin and piano; a harp suite; a clarinet quartet; a Flute Concerto; and Psalms for Today.

In 2008 he won the competition for Maltese composers organized by APS Bank. The winning entry was Ghanjiet ta’ Bniedem Solitarju (“songs of a Solitary Man”) a song cycle based on poems by the Maltese poet Ruzar Briffa, premiered in October 2009 and recorded on CD.

Other compositions of his have been performed in Malta (including the 2015 orchestral piece In Amore illo ardeas, as well as the Concertino Grosso for Maltese traditional instruments and orchestra - 2017), London, Wales and Germany. His major unperformed works include a Piano Concerto (1994 – revised 2016), a Clarinet Concerto (2016) and the music-scenic representation of Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone (2012), out of which the composer also extracted the chamber-orchestral Antigone Episodes in 2016. His String Quartet no. 2 (“Haunted by B.) (2017) has been awarded the Mullord Award by the 2016-17 ACO Composition Competition 'As you like it'. His Salve regina profugorum (2018) has been nominated as finalist in the Sacrarium International Competition for religiously inspired works held in Lviv, Ukraine, in December 2018.

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