- Bernard Rands
Bernard Rands (born
Sheffield ,England ,2 March 1934 ) is a composer ofcontemporary classical music .Rands studied music and English literature at the
University of Wales, Bangor , and composition withPierre Boulez andBruno Maderna inDarmstadt ,Germany , and withLuigi Dallapiccola andLuciano Berio inMilan ,Italy .He held residencies at
Princeton University , the University of Illinois, andYork University 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 theNew York Philharmonic , won thePulitzer Prize for Music .He has since taught at the
University of California, San Diego , theJuilliard School ,Yale University , andBoston University . From 1988 to 2005 he taught atHarvard University , where he is Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music Emeritus. His notable students includePaul Dresher ,Bun-Ching Lam ,Michael Daugherty ,Jing Jing Luo ,Sidney Corbett ,Daron Hagen ,Marc Mellits ,Vic Hoyland ,Dominic Muldowney ,Roger Marsh andRobert Scott Thompson .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 thePhiladelphia 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.Rands is married to American composer
Augusta Read Thomas .References
* Kennedy, Michael and Kennedy, Joyce Bourne (eds.) (2006) "Rands, Bernard" "The Oxford Dictionary of Music" (2nd rev.) Oxford University Press, Oxford, ISBN 0-19-861459-4
External links
* [http://www.bernardrands.com/ Bernard Rands official site]
* [http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/compbio.pl?compname=randsbernard Bernard Rands page] from Art of the States siteListening
* [http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/composer.pl?comp=123 Art of the States: Bernard Rands] two works by the composer
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NAME = Rands, Bernard
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SHORT DESCRIPTION = British composer of classical music
DATE OF BIRTH =2 March 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH =Sheffield ,Yorkshire ,England
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