# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bernard-rands
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:34:09.262Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bernard-rands"
name: "Bernard Rands"
slug: "bernard-rands"
description: "Bernard Rands was a British and American contemporary classical composer and professor. He composed orchestral works and chamber music, often with a vocal element, and a series of Memos for solo instruments. His Canti del Sole for tenor and orchestra received the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1984. He taught at Harvard University from 1988 to 2005."
tagline: "British-born American composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bernard_Rands_1983.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1934-03-02"
deathDate: "2026-03-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           9.216056
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  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "7Mb1O2zCtDyTAsm2cF1Rue"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.bernardrands.com"
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    title: "Bernard Rands"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump