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 the London Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Syracuse Symphony, New York Youth Symphony, Chicago Youth Symphony, Metropolitan Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Haddonfield Symphony, Carolina Crown Drum and Bugle Corps, and many other college orchestras and bands, among others. He has also received awards and recognition from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Masterprize, the American Composers Orchestra, ASCAP, the K. Serocki Competition in Poland, the Zoltan Kodaly and Francois d'Albert Concours Internationales de Composition, and a concerto commission for clarinettist Richard Stoltzman. Pann currently teaches composition and theory 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 External links Carter Pann's page at Theodore Presser Company Interview with Carter Pann, July 16, 2000 1972 births Eastman School of Music alumni Living people People from La Grange, Illinois Ragtime composers University of Colorado Boulder faculty University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance alumni Pupils of Samuel Adler (composer) 20th-century classical composers 21st-century classical composers 21st-century American composers American male classical composers American classical composers 20th-century American composers Classical musicians from Illinois 20th-century American male musicians 21st-century American male musicians Pupils of Joseph Schwantner