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Bernard Rands (born 2 March 1934 in Sheffield, England)[1] is a British-American contemporary classical music composer. He studied music and English literature at the University of Wales, Bangor,[2] and composition with Pierre Boulez and Bruno Maderna in Darmstadt, Germany, and with Luigi Dallapiccola and Luciano Berio in Milan, Italy. He held residencies at Princeton University, the University of Illinois, and the University of York before emigrating to the United States in 1975; he became a U.S. citizen in 1983. In 1984, Rands's Canti del Sole, premiered by Paul Sperry, Zubin Mehta, and the New York Philharmonic, won the Pulitzer Prize for Music.[3] He has since taught at the University of California, San Diego, the Juilliard School, Yale University, and Boston University. From 1988 to 2005 he taught at Harvard University, where he is Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music Emeritus. For his notable students, See: List of music students by teacher: R to S#Bernard Rands.

Rands has received many awards for his work, and was elected and inducted into The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004. From 1989 to 1995 he was composer-in-residence with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Rands's music is widely recorded. The recording of his Canti D'Amor by the men's vocal ensemble Chanticleer won a Grammy Award in 2000.[4] Rands is married to American composer Augusta Read Thomas.[5]


Works



Opera



Orchestral



Chamber



Vocal



Choral



Solo instrumental



Music theatre



Educational



Awards


In 2014 Rands was inducted to The Lincoln Academy of Illinois as a Laureate of the Arts and was awarded the Order of Lincoln (the state's highest honor) by the governor of Illinois.[7]


Current projects


Rands has most recently completed a Seattle Symphony commission, which premièred under Gerard Schwarz on 7 December 2010 at Benaroya Hall, Seattle, alongside works by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich.[8]


References


  1. "Bernard Rands: Concerts, Biography and News". BBC. Archived from the original on 10 December 2019.
  2. "Schott Music". en.schott-music.com. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  3. ""Canti del Sole" for Tenor and Orchestra, by Bernard Rands". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  4. "EAM: Bernard Rands Celebrates 85". www.eamdc.com. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  5. "Bernard Rands : Composer".
  6. Woolfe, Zachary (22 July 2014). "At 50, Festival Is Reunion of Sorts". The New York Times.
  7. "Laureates by Year - The Lincoln Academy of Illinois". The Lincoln Academy of Illinois. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  8. "Recent Press Release - Seattle Symphony Orchestra". Archived from the original on 9 June 2011.



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