Quick Facts
Biography
Randy Miller is a Los Angeles based film, television and media composer from Ellenville, New York.
Early Career Composing Credits
A few of Miller’s early career composing credits include: M.A.N.T.I.S. (TV series), The Outer Limits (1995 TV series), Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (film, Clive Barker), Dreamrider (film, James Earl Jones), Darkman II: The Return of Durant (film, Sam Raimi), And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird (film), Heaven and Earth (film, Oliver Stone, additional music), The Soong Sisters (film, Vivian Wu), and Without Limits (film, Robert Towne, Tom Cruise).
Later Composing Credits
The Heart of Nuba, Spartacus (USA Network mini series), Amargosa (Oscar documentary finalist), The Freedom to Marry, Handy Manny (Disney TV series), 2002 Firestarter 2: Rekindled, Yellow RockJack and the Beanstalk , Shanghai Red, Prancer Returns Go Tigers! , Most Valuable Players, Extinction Soup.
Other Work
Miller has done extensive work for other film composers including: Cliff Martinez, BT, Marcelo Zarvos, David Newman and Robert Folk as an additional composer, arranger, conductor and orchestrator on films such as: Game Night, The Fast and the Furious, Contagion, What’s My Name: Muhammad Ali, Breakthrough, The Best of Enemies, Stealth, Rememory, Zoolander, Summer Wars, The Flintstones, The Sandlot, Tremors, Hoffa, Tommy Boy, Police Academy 6: City Under Siege, The Company You Keep, Coneheads, I Love Trouble, Driven, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, Miles From Home.
His work for recording artists, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Kitaro, Nathan Pacheco, Sir Anthony Hopkins and BT includes string arrangements, orchestrations and conducting assignments.
Miller has composed industrial music for Walt Disney Imagineering.
Multimedia/Immersive
In addition to working in the recorded medium, Miller has composed music for live multimedia immersive events such as: The Marvel Experience and Impressions of the West Lake (directed by Zhang Yimou).
Background
Miller is the son of vocalist and entertainer Muriel King. At a young age he worked as a keyboardist/arranger in many hotels of the Catskills Mountains. He is currently on the faculty at Emerson College Los Angeles. He has a music composition degree from Berklee College of Music and continued his advanced studies in film scoring at the University of Southern California. Miller studied piano with the Bostonian pedagogue Mme. Margaret Chaloff. He maintains recording facilities in Calabasas, CA and at his Sequoia National Forest retreat.
Scores as Composer (Partial list)
Awards
- 1997 The Soong Sisters, Golden Horse Award - Best Original Film Score
- 1998 The Soong Sisters, Hong Kong Film Award - Best Original Film Score
- 2001 Prancer Returns, Video Premiere Award - Best Original Score
