Carter Pann
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Carter Pann (born February 21, 1972, in La Grange, Illinois) is an American composer. He studied composition and piano at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree. His teachers include Samuel Adler, William Albright, Warren Benson, William Bolcom, David Liptak, Joseph Schwantner, and Bright Sheng, and piano with Barry Snyder.[1]
His works have been performed by major orchestras, youth symphonies, and ensembles across the United States and internationally, including the London Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, and RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra.[2] He has collaborated with artists such as clarinetist Richard Stoltzman and the Takács Quartet.[3]
Pann has received awards and recognition from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Masterprize, the American Composers Orchestra, and ASCAP. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2016.[4]
Pann currently teaches composition and conducts the Boulder Altitude Directive contemporary music ensemble at the University of Colorado Boulder.[5]
Selected recorded works
[edit]- Antares
- Dance Partita
- Deux séjours
- Differences for cello and piano
- Factories: Locomotive/Gothic/Mercurial/At Peace, for wind ensemble
- Hold This Boy and Listen
- Love Letters (2000)
- Piano Concerto
- Slalom, for symphony orchestra
- Soiree Macabre: with demons on the dance floor
- Symphony for Winds "My Brother's Brain"'
- The Bills, for piano
- The Cheese Grater – A Mean Two-Step
- The High Songs
- The Mechanics, for saxophone quartet
- The Piano's 12 Sides
- The Three Embraces
- Two Portraits of Barcelona
- Wrangler, for wind ensemble
References
[edit]- ^ "Interview with Bruce Duffie". Retrieved January 26, 2025.
- ^ "Carter Pann Artist Profile". Retrieved January 26, 2025.
- ^ "Wind Repertory Project: Carter Pann". Retrieved January 26, 2025.
- ^ "University of Colorado Composer Carter Pann Named Pulitzer Prize Finalist". Retrieved January 26, 2025.
- ^ "Carter Pann Faculty Profile". Retrieved January 26, 2025.
External links
[edit]- "Welcome". CarterPann.com. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
- Carter Pann's page at Theodore Presser Company
- "Carter Pann". 31 March 2012. Archived from the original on 31 March 2012. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
- "Carter Pann – CU-Boulder College of Music – CU-Boulder". 12 October 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- Interview with Carter Pann, July 16, 2000
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- 1972 births
- Eastman School of Music alumni
- Living people
- People from La Grange, Illinois
- Ragtime composers
- University of Colorado Boulder faculty
- University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance alumni
- Pupils of Samuel Adler (composer)
- 20th-century American classical composers
- 21st-century American classical composers
- American male classical composers
- Classical musicians from Illinois
- 20th-century American male musicians
- 21st-century American male musicians
- Pupils of Joseph Schwantner
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