Pance Pony is a composer, songwriter, cellist, and performer based in New York, New York.

After graduating from Ithaca College in 2015, Pance began her career as the Recording Studio Director for a charter school in Brooklyn. There, she founded a fully-functioning student-operated record label, Wolverine Studios.

As a cellist, Pance has performed and recorded for NBC’s RISE, and has played at Lincoln Center, 92nd Street Y, and Alice Tully Hall. She began songwriting as a hobby by accompanying herself on the cello. In 2017, her song American Millennial Salvation won the Global Music Awards for Best Songwriter.

Pance went on to pursue a Masters in Composition from NYU, studying privately with Broadway Music Director Joseph Church, and Grammy-winning songwriter “Swagg” R’celious Harris. She learned to blend her classical training with hip-hop and EDM beats to create a versatile and unique sound.

While studying at NYU, Pance has been in the studio with major artists such as Tone Stith, Leo the Kind, JAGMAC, and American Idol’s Di and Chi. Additionally, she’s written theme songs, for podcasts, and engineered live shows. In 2019, Pance was named the National Songwriters Hall of Fame Scholar. Her debut EP, Metamorphosized, started as a COVID project, but later became her ticket to the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Songwriter workshop. She’s currently in her second year of the workshop developing a new musical adaptation.