Steven Pane

A collaborative, sound-text media work created with poet Kristen Case. 

Presented at the Belfast Poetry Festival, Maine (October, 2014)

An intermedia collaboration with video artist, Dawn Nye and poet Jeff Thomson based on Schumann’s Carnaval and Thomson’s poem cycle, Celestial Emporium

Presented at the Emery Arts Center, Maine - September, 2011

In the spirit of the Opus 111 Project: Intermedia Variations on Beethoven's Last Piano Sonata, The Lyric Chopin, curated Kristen Case, will ask writers, artists, students, philosophers and others to create a response to an aspect of the world of Chopin's Four Ballades.

Feldman’s Last Pieces is a group of four short works for piano that continue to be hot topics for music theorists and historians. Pianist Steve Pane (U-Maine Farmington) will perform Feldman’s work and join Colby’s Steven Nuss, Anindyo Roy, Christiane Guillois, U-Maine Farmington philosopher Matthew Houston, and the audience for a discussion of Last Pieces informed by issues raised in Jean-Luc Nancy’s relatively recent work, Listening. In addition to raising deep questions about what music is, does, and might be, Nancy’s work also offers new ways of thinking about the possibility of a shared aesthetic among the composers and painters—Morton Feldman, John Cage, Christian Wolff, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline, and others—of the so-called New York School of Music and Visual Arts in the 1950s-80s.

Goldberg Variations: The Ecstasy of Always Bursting Forth

A collaboration with author Patricia O’Donnell blending Bach’s Goldberg Variations with fragments of text,

University of Maine Farmington, April 2007