Bernard Rands (born 2 March 1934 in Sheffield, England)[1] is a British-American contemporary classical 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.
In 1984, Rands's Canti del Sole, premiered by Paul Sperry, Zubin Mehta, and the New York Philharmonic, won the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Rands has received many awards for his work, and was elected and inducted into The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004.
The recording of his Canti D'Amor by the men's vocal ensemble Chanticleer won a Grammy Award in 2000.