Randolph Klein

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RANDY KLEIN (Composer) is a multi-award-winning composer, pianist, record producer, author, music educator. Musical Theatre: SPEAK, Black Swan BluesTwinkle's Fairy Pet DayFancy Nancy: Splendiferous Christmas, Ever Happily AfterFlambé Dreams, Move! (Royal Theatre Carré, Amsterdam); I Don't Do Club Dates; Falling Apart. Concert and Choral Works: Fanfare For Jerusalem performed at the Metropolitan Opera House by 400-voice Hazamir Chorale; The Margaret Walker For My People song cycle featuring poetry of Margaret Walker, will have its symphonic premiere November 2023 with the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, Facing It and Dear John, Dear Coltrane, based on poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa and Michael Harper, premiered at the Forbes Center For The Performing Arts. Awards: Creatives Rebuild New York Award, The Simons Public Humanities Fellowship, Hall Center for the Humanities at University of Kansas; Recipient of BMI Foundation Jerry Harrington Award for Musical Theatre; Southern Regional Emmy Awards, including original score to the film-documentary Richard Wright (Black Boy) (PBS/BBC). Two gold records for songs recorded by R&B legend, Millie Jackson. Randy’s music can be heard: National Emmy-winning documentaries Free To Dance (PBS Great Performances); Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life Of Hattie McDaniel (American Movie Classics); African Burial Ground Museum in lower Manhattan and Civil Rights Museum, Greensboro, NC. Randy is composing the folk opera, Jubilee based on Margaret Walker’s novel. Randy is a longtime member of the Advanced BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop, The Dramatists Guild, NARAS. Alumnus, Berklee College of Music. Exclusive Steinway Artist. www.randyklein.com