Carter Pann

Composed in 2016 on commission from Joe Lulloff, Pann's Sonata is a 23-minute monument in 4 movements. The work was inspired by both the saxophone music of late composer William Albright and by Joe's...

A commission from the Wozniak Duo (Lois Hicks-Wozniak; saxophone; and Matthew Wozniak; bass trombone) led the composer to fashion a two-movement synthesis of this dynamic couple. The movements ('Lyric...

What could be more exhilarating than a Carter Pann saxophone quartet? What could have more entrancing textures and giddier rag-inspired dances? Panns EIGHT SAXOPHONES for Double SATB Saxophone Quartet...

Carter Pann writes, “the piece might have been titled Three Improvisations, but there is an expressive inertia baked in to these works which makes them truer as rhapsodies. This description tells us m...

Carter Pann's three songs of remembrance create freshly new colors and moods, always remaining melodic and idiomatic for the voice. The songs were born of admiration for soprano/poet Meagan Mahlberg's...

Olde English Suite explores Carter Pann's infatuation with Edwardian English culture as popularized by Downton Abbey. Its four movements (Overture; Sarabande; Pastorale; Finale: Gallop) evoke the atmo...

Carter Pann calls this work "an exploration in bel canto writing for an instrument I have been in love with since my first forays as a composer." The result is a lusciously haunting and dreamy arioso...

In this short and wild ride free of barlines, Pann’s fantasical imagination gives bass clarinetists an excitement-packed adventure. The composer has written, “As these four pages progress, the music t...

tiny TATTOO was written after the composer visited a 'treetop' bistro at Big Sur, California. The restaurant is named Nepenthe, after an ancient Greek elixir fabled to relieve any and all sorrows. Thi...

tiny TATTOO was written after the composer visited a 'treetop' bistro at Big Sur, California. The restaurant is named Nepenthe, after an ancient Greek elixir fabled to relieve any and all sorrows. Thi...

A microcosmic masterpiece in its own right and defined by the composer as an encore piece; Bitten at the Opera is all that and more. Carter Pann may leave us guessing about some of the references in h...

Commissioned by the Colorado Wind Ensemble, Hold This Boy and Listen is inspired by Carter Pann's young nephew, David Paulus, Jr. It is unusually quiet and subdued for a wind band composition, and wil...

In a musical style strongly influenced by (and occasionally parodying) American popular music, the subtitle “Baroque” may seem a puzzle at first. It is also the key to Pann’s approach in composing for...

Vultures was commissioned in 2013 by Neal Postma for 15 saxophone duos throughout the United States. It is a single movement (fast, slow, fast) lasting seven minutes. Vultures was premiered in March 2...

Carter Pann composed The Mechanics in 2013 at the rustic MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, as a commission for the Capitol Quartet. Pann describes 'picturing all four gentlemen of the Capitol Quartet...

Following the Capitol Quartet's commission and celebrated premiere of The Mechanics, Carter Pann composed this short encore piece for the Capitol Quartet as a written-out improvisation. The players of...

For String Quartet. Score and parts. Composed 2000. Duration 19:30.

Carter Pann's THIRD STRING QUARTET is an 18-minute suite of four atmospheric tangos; which the composer suggests may be accompanied on stage by authentic tango dancers. The darkness and mysterious tea...

Carter Pann's first journey into wind quintet literature creates color and excitement inspired by the mundane events of daily life. The six movements are titled: I. Americano; II. Apology; III. Adjust...

An extraordinary addition to the saxophone repertoire, Pann's concerto is alternately tender and wild, yet idiomatic even in the most challenging pyrotechnics and altissimo. The four movements show of...

Pann's Differences is originally a suite for cello and piano; comprised of five short movements; very much like a Baroque suite or partita. The individual pieces; however; are radically different from...