Bernard Rands

Music for Shoko - Aubade

Subtitle	for english horn and string quartet
Year(s) composed	2017
Publisher	Schott Music
Duration	8'
Premiere	January 26, 2018; Knight Concert Hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, Miami, FL; Stephen Rose, violin • Jeffrey Zehngut, violin • Joanna Zakany, viola • Charles Bernard, cello • Robert Walters, english horn
Composer note	Music for Shoko - Aubade is dedicated to my dear friend Shoko Suzuki in appreciation of many years of friendship and her devotion to my music. This piece is a transcription of the Aubade movement from Concerto for English Horn and Orchestra originally commissioned by the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in celebration of its 150th anniversary and performed in November 2015 by Robert Walters (E.H.) and The Cleveland Orchestra. – Bernard Rands (2017)