Partitions Carter Pann piano

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...

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...

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...