Carter Pann

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...

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 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...

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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...

In diesem kurzen und wilden Ritt ohne Taktstriche bietet Panns phantastische Vorstellungskraft Bassklarinettisten ein aufregendes Abenteuer. Der Komponist schreibt: "Im Verlauf dieser vier Seiten vers...

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...

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...

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 einem Musikstil, der stark von der amerikanischen Popmusik beeinflusst ist (und gelegentlich parodiert), mag der Untertitel "Baroque" auf den ersten Blick rätselhaft erscheinen. Es ist auch der Sch...

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.