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Bernard Rands
Biography
Bernard Rands (b. 1934, Sheffield, England) is an American composer and teacher.
Mr. Rands emigrated to the United States in 1975, becoming an American Citizen in 1983. He has been honored by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters; B.M.I.; the Guggenheim Foundation; the National Endowment for the Arts; Meet the Composer; the Barlow, Fromm and Koussevitzky Foundations, among many others. Through more than a hundred published works and many recordings, Bernard Rands is established as a major figure in contemporary music. His work Canti del Sole, premiered by Paul Sperry, Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic, won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize in Music. His large orchestral suites Le Tambourin won the 1986 Kennedy Center Freidheim Award.
A dedicated and passionate teacher, Rands has been guest composer at many international festivals and Composer in Residence at the Aspen and Tanglewood festivals. Rands is the Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music at Harvard University where he teaches with distinction.
Rands was elected and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004.
Works for Winds
- Ceremonial (1993)
- Unending Lightning (2002)
Resources
- Bernard Rands website
- Bernard Rands, Prized Composers, University of Washington
- Miles, Richard B., and Larry Blocher. 2002. Teaching Music Through Performance in Band. Volume 4. Chicago: GIA Publications. pp.