Randy Miller (composer)


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., The Outer Limits, , Dreamrider, , And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird, Heaven and Earth, The Soong Sisters, and Without Limits.

Later Composing Credits

The Heart of Nuba, Spartacus, Amargosa, The Freedom to Marry, Handy Manny, 2002, Yellow Rock Jack 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.

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)

1988 The Boy from Hell
1988 Doctor Hackenstein
1988 Witchcraft
1988 Witchery
1988 High Mountain Rangers
1989 Jesse Hawks
1989 Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
1990 The Willies
1990 Tremors
1991 Toy Soldiers
1991 Rock-A-Doodle
1991 Black Magic Woman
1991 And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird
1991 Into the Sun
1992
1992 Santa's First Christmas
1993 A Case for Murder
1993 Dreamrider
1994 Encounters: The Hidden Truth
1994 M.A.N.T.I.S.
1994 The Ghen War
1995 Tommy Boy
1995
1996
1996 The Outer Limits
1996 Space Marines
1996 The Right to Remain Silent
1997 Living in Peril
1997 The Soong Sisters
1997 Byzantine: The Betrayal
1998 Ground Control
1998 Without Limits
1998 Picture of Priority
1999 Pirates of the Plain
2000 Amargosa
2000 Time of Her Time
2001 Go Tigers!
2001 Hitched
2001 Prancer Returns
2002 Firestarter 2: Rekindled
2002 Astronauts
2003 Little Alvin and the Mini-Munks
2004 Spartacus
2004 Vendetta: No Conscience, No Mercy
2006 Last Time Forever
2006 First Snow
2006 Shanghai Red
2007 Second Chance Season
2008 Uncross the Stars
2009 Summer Wars
2009 Jack and the Beanstalk
2010 Handy Manny's School for Tools
2010 Most Valuable Players
2011 Yellow Rock
2012 Life's an Itch
2012 Handy Manny
2014 Extinction Soup
2014 The Marvel Experience
2016 The Freedom to Marry
2016 The Heart of Nuba
2016 Sisters of the Groom
2016 Hometown Hero
2017 The Joneses Unplugged
2017 A Man for Every Month
2017 Happily Never After
2018 Brimming with Love
2018 Choices: I Won't Let Go

Awards