October 6, 2011
Event: Faculty Tuesdays
Date: Tuesday, November 1, 7:30 p.m.
Description: Colors on Canvas: Painting J.S. Bach and the Music of Carter Pann
Program:
CARTER PANN: Selections from Piano 12 Sides
Love Letters for string quartet
"The Bach Buch"
Location: Grusin Music Hall, Imig Music Building, 18th St. & Euclid Ave.
Admission: Free and open to the public
Public Contact: music.colorado.edu or 303-492-8008
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FACULTY TUESDAY SERIES WORKS BY COMPOSER, CARTER PANN
On Tuesday, November 1, at 7:30 p.m. in Grusin Music Hall, Canadian pianist Joel Hastings will premiere selections from Pann's recent work Piano 12 Sides. CU-Boulder's graduate quartet in residence, the Tesla Quartet, will perform Pann's Love Letters string quartet, and performance painter Kym Finkle will join the CU Graduate Chamber Winds in a complete performance of Pann's newly published book of transcriptions "The Bach Buch." This concert is free and open to the public. Call the CU Presents Box Office at (303) 492-8008 or visit music.colorado.edu/events/faculty-tuesdays/ for more information.
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Biography
Carter Pann
In the last ten years Carter  Pann's music has become known for its blend of crafty, popular-sounding idioms, subtle and unabashed humor, and haunted melodic writing. His music has been performed around the world by such ensembles and soloists as the London Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, Berlin-Stockholm-Finnish Radio Symphonies, Seattle Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, National Symphony of Ireland, New York Youth Symphony, Richard Stoltzman, the Ying Quartet, pianists Barry Snyder and Winston Choi, and the Antares ensemble, among others. Honors in composition include the K. Serocki Competition for his First Piano Concerto (premiered by the Polish Radio Symphony in Lutoslawski Hall, Warsaw 1998), the Charles Ives Scholarship from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and five ASCAP composer awards. His Piano Concerto was nominated for a GRAMMY as "Best Classical Composition of the Year" 2001.
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Click here to download a high-resolution photograph of Carter Pann
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About the College of Music
Since its founding in 1920, the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music has earned a reputation not only for preparing students for successful careers in music, but also for providing them with an outstanding college education. The College of Music offers seven degree plans and over 23 fields of study, and its programs cover virtually all areas of music. The members of the College of Music's faculty are respected performers, composers, educators, and scholars who take a deep and lasting interest in the students of the College of Music. Internationally renowned artists such as Christopher Parkening, James Galway, and Wynton Marsalis perform and teach master classes on campus.
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College of Music Media Contact
Laima Haley
Marketing and Public Relations Manager
laima.haley@colorado.edu
Phone: (303) 492-4247
Fax: (303) 492-1131
302 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0302
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College of Music Public Contact
CU Presents Box Office
musictix@colorado.edu
Phone: (303) 492-8008
Location: University Club,
972 Broadway, Boulder
Hours: M-F 9 a.m.- 4 p.m.
302 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0302
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