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Carter Pann

b. 1972

American composer and composition professor

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Born 1972. Carter Pann is an American pianist, composer, musicologist, music teacher and university teacher.

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.

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. He has collaborated with artists such as clarinetist Richard Stoltzman and the Takács Quartet.

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.

Pann currently teaches composition and conducts the Boulder Altitude Directive contemporary music ensemble at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Selected recorded works

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 pianoThe Cheese Grater – A Mean Two-StepThe High SongsThe Mechanics, for saxophone quartetThe Piano's 12 SidesThe Three EmbracesTwo Portraits of BarcelonaWrangler'', for wind ensemble

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University of Michigan, Eastman School of Music
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University of Colorado Boulder

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Who is Carter Pann?

American composer and composition professor

When was Carter Pann born?

Carter Pann was born on 21 February 1972 in La Grange.

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Carter Pann is a pianist, composer, musicologist, music teacher and university teacher.

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Carter Pann is American.

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· Wikipedia: Carter Pann

· Wikidata: Q2012938

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