Carter Pann (b.1972) began studying piano at an early age with his grandmother.  At fifteen he began lessons with Emilio Del Rosario at the North Shore School of Music in Winnetka, Illinois.  In 1994 he received his Bachelor's degree from the Eastman School of Music, and subsequently his Master's degree from the University of Michigan. Honors in composition include the K.Serocki Competition for his Piano Concerto (premiered by the Polish Radio Symphony in Lutoslawski Hall, Warsaw), first prizes in the Zoltan Kodaly and Francois d'Albert Concours Internationales de Composition, a Charles Ives Scholarship from the Academy of Arts and Letters and five ASCAP composer awards.  His works have been performed bythe London Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, National Symphony of Ireland, Syracuse Symphony, New York Youth Symphony, Chicago Youth Symphony, and the Haddonfield Symphony among others.  In 1997 the Czech State Philharmonic of Brno recorded four of his orchestral works under Jose Serebrier.  Naxos released it in February of 2000 on its Amercian Classics series (Carter Pann- PIANO CONCERTO/DANCE PARTITA 8.559043). The Piano Concerto was submitted for a Grammy nomination in the "Best Classical Composition of the Year" category for 2001.  His Clarinet Concerto, commissioned for Richard Stoltzman, is to be recorded by the Seattle Symphony under Gerard Schwarz.  Love Letters (string quartet no.1) was recently completed for the Ying Quartet's Life Music commissioning project through a grant from the American Music Institute. SLALOM was performed at the 2001 Masterprize Finals by the London Symphony under Daniel Harding and has since been widely performed throughout Europe.  His Triple Trombone Concerto for trombonists John Rutherford, Mike Becker, Randy Hawes, and members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra will be recorded in the spring of 2003. Anthems in Waves, a tribute to one of the most weathered American battleships inexistence, the USS New Jersey, was commissioned by the Haddonfield Symphony through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.  He is currently working on a Piano Trio for the New England based Amelia Trio (for a premiere on the "Music in the Loft" series in Chicago, January 2003).