Discipline: Music Composition

Carter Pann

Discipline: Music Composition
Region: Boulder, CO
MacDowell Fellowships: 2001, 2013

Composer/pianist Carter Pann 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 youth orchestras of New York and Chicago, and countless wind ensembles. He has worked with Richard Stoltzman, the Antares Ensemble, the Capitol Saxophone Quartet, the West Coast Wind Quintet, the River Oaks Chamber Ensemble, the Takács Quartet, and many concert pianists. Awards include a Charles Ives Fellowship, a Masterprize seat in London, and five ASCAP awards over the years. His numerous albums encompass solo, vocal, chamber, orchestral and wind music, and have received two GRAMMY nominations to date. Pann was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 2016. He loves a good game of chess or poker with his students and friends, and currently teaches at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Carter Pann worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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