Carter Pann

Instructor of Theory and Composition

Email: Carter.Pann@colorado.edu
Website: http://www.carterpann.com
Office Location: Room C127, Imig Music Building
Office Phone: 303-492-2173
Mailing Address: 301 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0301

In the last ten years Carter Pann’s music has become known for its blend of crafty, popular-sounding idioms, subtle and unabashed humor, and haunted melodic writing.  His music has been performed around the world by such ensembles and soloists as the London Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, Berlin-Stockholm-Finnish Radio Symphonies, Seattle Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, National Symphony of Ireland, New York Youth Symphony, Richard Stoltzman, the Ying Quartet, pianists Barry Snyder and Winston Choi, and the Antares ensemble, among others.  Honors include the K.Serocki Competition for his Piano Concerto (premiered by the Polish Radio Symphony in Lutoslawski Hall, Warsaw 1998), a Charles Ives Scholarship from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and five ASCAP composer awards.   In 1997 the Czech State Philharmonic of Brno recorded four of his orchestral works under José Serebrier.  Naxos released the album in February of 2000 in their AMERICAN CLASSICSseries (Carter Pann—PIANO CONCERTO/DANCE PARTITA 8.559043). His Piano Concerto was nominated for a GRAMMY as “Best Classical Composition of the Year” 2001.  The Clarinet Concerto Rags to Richard, commissioned for Richard Stoltzman, was recently recorded by the Seattle Symphony under Gerard Schwarz. Love Letters (string quartet no. 1) was commissioned by the Ying Quartet for their LIFE MUSICcommissioning project through a grant from the American Music Institute.  SLALOM (for orch.) was performed by the London Symphony under Daniel Harding in 2001 and has since been widely performed throughout the United States and Europe (and subsequently showcased on NPR’s Performance Today). Anthems in Waves, a tribute to one of the most weathered American battleships in existence, the USS New Jersey, was commissioned by the Haddonfield Symphony through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.  More recent works include Nicky’s Trio (Piano Trio No. 1) for the Amelia Trio, American Child for a consortium of 10 university wind ensembles and ANTARES (piano - violin - cello - clarinet) for the Antares ensemble.  Fantasy-Inventions (an extended solo piano work) was premiered in Alice Tully Hall, October 2004 by pianist Barry Snyder.  He has since been contributing to the explosion of new Wind Symphony works being written for the many collegiate ensembles around the country.