Carter Pann

Differences was composed for cellist Derek Snyder and is comprised of five short movements; very much like a Baroque suite - however; the five individual pieces are radically different from each other...

GIANTESS was commissioned by the Flute New Music Consortium for simultaneous 'copremieres'

Double Espresso! was written as a gift to flutist Christina Jennings in 2017. It is a 2-minute encore piece flung forward at break-neck speed. True to the work's title, the flutist zips through a mult...

Composed in the mold of Satie's Gymnopedies; Carter Pann's Two Romances for Violin and Piano transport us exquisitely into a dream world of gentle impressionism and lilting dance. The two movements ma...

From the composer of the popular new work Hold This Boy and Listen (115-40202F Score; 115-40202M Parts); we have Serenade for Winds; another thoughtful work for concert band; inspired by the melodic w...

Steinway artist Joel Hastings has championed Carter Pann's piano music; presenting an all-Pann concert; in which the composer has also performed. For Hastings and for himself; Pann has written this th...

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...

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This is a collection of 18 of Bach's most celebrated keyboard and instrumental gems; transcribed by master orchestrator Carter Pann; for a flexibly-scored ensemble of 10 woodwinds. It includes works s...

For Piano Solo. Classical. Solo part. Composed 1997. 12 pages. Duration 11:00.

Described by Pann as 'for the muscular pianist;' Fantasy-Inventions was commissioned through the University of Rochester for Pann's former piano teacher Barry Snyder. There is a transcendental quality...

Pann has written a marvelously manic two-step in response to a recalcitrant cheese grater and bloody knuckles. He says, 'After some racing (and sometimes Gaspard-like ragtime), the grater gets going w...

'Without a melodic line to anchor oneself on, I ask the pianist to use the instrument like a canvas over which many different color combinations are applied evenly throughout. The amount of restraint...

'She Steals Me...is a tender and poignant piece that while not overtly emotional nevertheless reaches the soul. ... When Pann writes in the notes to this movement that he comes 'terribly close to tear...

Pann's setting of the familiar Danny Boy concludes The Piano's 12 Sides in a beautiful and hushed finality.

But for the sudden death of the composer's collaborator on this project; organist/pianist Joel Hastings; the present cycle of piano pieces was intended to be an even greater successor to Pann's The Pi...

An outstanding pianist himself; Carter Pann has created The Piano's 12 Sides; an hour-long collection of 12 movements each developing a color or character. The work's magnificence exudes both from the...

Following their world premiere; The Heare Ensemble proclaimed: 'Melodies for Robert contains rich harmonies; soaring melodies; and unexpected twists; but beyond the musical elements; it also has incre...

The High Songs; a commission from 12 bands across the country; became a 24-minute suite for Amplified Cello and Chamber Winds of five movements; an instrumental song cycle featuring the solo cello in...