Bernard Rands

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Bernard Rands (born Sheffield, England, 2 March 1934) is a composer of contemporary classical music.

Rands studied music and English literature at the University of Wales, Bangor, 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 York 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 the New York Philharmonic, won the Pulitzer Prize for Music.

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. His notable students include Paul Dresher, Bun-Ching Lam, Michael Daugherty, Jing Jing Luo, Sidney Corbett, Daron Hagen, Marc Mellits, Vic Hoyland, Dominic Muldowney, Roger Marsh and Robert 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 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.

Rands is married to American composer Augusta Read Thomas.

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[edit] Works

[edit] Opera

[edit] Orchestral

  • Per Esempio (1969)
  • Wildtrack 1 (1969)
  • Agenda (1970)
  • Mésalliance (1972), for piano solo & orchestra
  • Wildtrack 2 (1973), for soprano solo & orchestra
  • Aum (1974), for harp solo & chamber orchestra
  • Madrigali (1977), for chamber orchestra
  • Canti Lunatici (1981), for soprano solo & orchestra
  • Canti del Sole (1983), for tenor solo & orchestra
  • Le Tambourin: Suites 1 & 2 (1984)
  • Ceremonial 2 (1986)
  • Fanfare for a Festival (1986)
  • Hiraeth (1987), for cello solo & orchestra
  • ...body and shadow... (1988)
  • London Serenade (1988)
  • Bells (1989), for S.A.T.B. choir & orchestra
  • Ceremonial 3 (1991)
  • Canti dell'Eclisse (1992), for bass solo & orchestra
  • Ceremonial (1992-93), for wind band
  • Tre Canzoni senza Parole (1993)
  • Canzoni (1995)
  • Interludium (1995), for S.A.T.B. choir & orchestra
  • Symphony (1995)
  • ...where the murmurs die... (1995)
  • Cello Concerto (1996)
  • Fanfare (1996)
  • Requiescant (1996), for soprano solo, S.A.T.B. choir & orchestra
  • Triple Concerto (1997), for piano, cello & percussion soli & orchestra
  • apókryphos (2002), for soprano solo, S.A.T.B. choir & orchestra
  • Unending Lightening (2002), for wind band
  • Chains Like the Sea (2008)

[edit] Chamber

  • Actions for Six (1962), for flute, viola, cello, harp & two percussion
  • Espressione IV. (1964), for two pianos
  • Ballad 1 (1970), for mezzo-soprano solo, flute, trombone, piano, percussion & contrabass
  • Tableau (1970), for flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, viola & cello
  • as all get out (1972), for miscellaneous instrumental ensemble (graphic score)
  • déjà (1972), for flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, viola & cello
  • Response - Memo 1B (1973), for contrabass & tape / two contrabassi
  • Cuaderno (1974), for string quartet
  • étendre (1974), for solo contrabass, flute, clarinet, horn, trumpet, trombone, piano, electric organ, percussion, violin, viola & cello
  • Scherzi (1974), for clarinet, piano, violin & cello
  • Obbligato - Memo 2C (1980), for trombone & string quartet
  • ...in the receding mist... (1988), for flute, harp, violin, viola & cello
  • ...and the rain... (1992), for horn, harp, violin, viola & cello
  • String Quartet No. 2 (1994)
  • ...sans voix parmi les voix... (1995), for flute, harp & viola
  • Concertino (1996), for oboe solo, flute, clarinet, harp, two violins, viola & cello
  • Prelude (2004), for flute, viola & harp
  • String Quartet No. 3 (2004)
  • ...now again... (2006), for mezzo-soprano solo, flute, clarinet, trumpet, percussion, harp, violin, viola & cello
  • PRISM (Memo 6B) (2008), for saxophone quartet

[edit] Vocal

  • Ballad 1 (1970), for mezzo-soprano solo & ensemble
  • Ballad 2 (1970), for female voice & piano
  • Metalepsis 2 (1971), for mezzo-soprano solo, two sopranos, two altos, tenor & bass voice ensemble & instrumental ensemble
  • Ballad 3 (1973), for soprano & tape (plus bell)
  • Wildtrack 2 (1973), for soprano solo & orchestra
  • Canti Lunatici (1980), for soprano & ensemble/orchestra
  • déjà 2 (1980), for female voice solo & ensemble
  • Canti del Sole (1984), for tenor solo & ensemble/orchestra
  • Canti dell'Eclisse (1992), for bass solo & ensemble/orchestra
  • Walcott Songs (2004), for mezzo-soprano & cello
  • ...now again... (2006), for mezzo-soprano & ensemble

[edit] Choral

  • ...among the voices... (1988), for S.A.T.B. choir & harp
  • Bells (1989), for S.A.T.B. choir & orchestra
  • Canti d'Amor (1991), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir
  • Introit (1992), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir
  • Interludium (1995), for S.A.T.B. choir & orchestra
  • Requiescant (1996), for soprano solo, S.A.T.B. choir & orchestra
  • Melancholy Madrigal (2001), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir
  • apókryphos (2002), for soprano solo, S.A.T.B. choir & orchestra
  • My Child (2003), for a cappella S.A.T.B. choir
  • Trinity (2008), for a cappella male-voice choir

[edit] Solo Instrumental

  • Tre Espressione (1960), for piano
  • Formants 1 - Les Gestes (1965), for harp
  • Memo 1 (1971), for contrabass
  • Memo 2 (1973), for trombone
  • Memo 3 (1989), for cello
  • Memo 4 (1997), for flute
  • Memo 5 (1975), for piano
  • Memo 6 (1999), for alto saxophone
  • Memo 7 (2000), for female voice
  • Memo 8 (2000), for oboe
  • HBDZ (2001), for piano
  • Preludes (2007), for piano

[edit] Music Theatre

  • Ballad 2 (1970), for female voice & piano
  • Ballad 3 (1973), for soprano & tape (plus bell)
  • Memo 2B (1980), for trombone and female mime
  • Memo 2D (1980), for trombone, string quartet and female mime

[edit] Educational

  • Sound Patterns 1 (1967), for voices & hands
  • Sound Patterns 2 (1967), for voices, percussion and miscellaneous instruments
  • Per Esempio (1969), for youth orchestra
  • Sound Patterns 3 (1969), for voices (project)
  • Sound Patterns 4 (1969), for miscellaneous instrumental groups (graphic score)
  • Agenda (1970), for youth orchestra

[edit] References

[edit] External links

[edit] Listening

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