Commissioned Works Artist: Bernard Rands (b. 1934)

Born in England, Mr. Rands emigrated to the U.S. in 1975.  Since then he has been honored by awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Barlow, Fromm, and Koussevitzky foundations, among others.  Commissions include orchestral works for the Suntory concert hall in Tokyo, the New York Philharmonic's performances at the centenary celebration of Carnegie Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Internationale Bach Akademie, Stuttgart. Other recent commissions have resulted in works for the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the Dale Warland Singers, Chanticleer, the Mendelssohn Quartet, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.  Mr. Rands's music has been conducted by many, including Boulez, Berio, Maderna, Marriner, Mehta, Muti, Ozawa, Rilling, Salonen, Sawallisch, Schiff, Schuller, Schwarz, Silverstein, Slatkin, and von Dohnanyi.  His work Canti del sole premiered by Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic, was awarded the 1984 Pulitzer Prize in music.