Carter Pann
- Chair, Composition
- Professor of Composition
- Ralph E. and Barbara L. Christoffersen Faculty Fellow
- COMPOSITION
Composer/pianist Carter Pann resides in the forest just north of Lyons, Colorado and is the chair of the composition department at the CU Boulder College of Music. He founded and conducts the Emerging Composers Project, an ongoing opportunity for young, local composers to receive premiere performances and recordings of their works by Boulder Philharmonic musicians.
Pann also conducts the Boulder Altitude Directive ensemble with a mission to premiere and record the new works of students on the CU Boulder campus with the college’s best players. He has written for and worked with musicians around the world, with performances by the London Symphony and City of Birmingham Symphony, the Tchaikovsky Symphony in Moscow, many radio symphonies around Europe, the Seattle Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, the Youth Orchestras of New York and Chicago, and countless wind ensembles.
Pann has had the privilege to work with Richard Stoltzman, the Antares Ensemble, the Capitol and h2 Saxophone Quartets, the Sphere Ensemble, the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, the Takács Quartet and many concert pianists among other inspiring musicians. Pann was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2016. His music can be found on Spotify, YouTube and other platforms.