Randy Klein
Randy Klein is a multi-award-winning composer, pianist, record producer, author and music educator.
He is an award winning composer and pianist with 4 Emmy Awards and 2 Gold Records. His musical theatre works include: Twinkle Tames A Dragon – 2016, Fancy Nancy: Splendiferous Christmas - 2014 Vital Music Theatre.... more
Randy Klein is a multi-award-winning composer, pianist, record producer, author and music educator.
He is an award winning composer and pianist with 4 Emmy Awards and 2 Gold Records. His musical theatre works include: Twinkle Tames A Dragon – 2016, Fancy Nancy: Splendiferous Christmas - 2014 Vital Music Theatre. Flambé Dreams – 2012 New York Musical Theatre Festival; Ever Happily After, a children’s musical, 2013 New York Musical Theatre Festival; Move!, a dance musical commissioned - Royal Theatre Carre', Amsterdam; I Don't Do Club Dates, staged readings Victory Theater, by the National Musical Theater Network and John Harms Arts Center. Recipient of the Simons Fellowship at the Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas, he is an Anna Sosenko Trust Recipient; BMI Foundation Jerry Harrington Award for Achievement in Musical Theatre, nominated for the Jerry Boch Award for theater composition. Composer of the choral works For My People, Facing It and Dear John, Dear Coltrane. His new work Fanfare For Jerusalem will have a world premiere at David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, March 2017. His latest work Brockton had its world premiere April 2018, performed by the Brockton High School Advanced Concert Band.
He is the winner of the USA Songwriting Competition 2005 in the Jazz category and top two in the overall category for his composition “Data”. He is the winner of gold records for songs recorded by Polydor recording artist Millie Jackson, and composed and produced the dance hit "Watch The Closing Doors" for the RCA group IRT. He has had songs recorded by Candy Staton, Sarah Dash (formerly of LaBelle), the rap group Black Sheep, Memphis Bleak, and Savion Glover for Sesame Street.
He is a solo improvising pianist with numerous recordings.
Member of The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, Jazz Educators Network (JEN), Association of Popular Music Educators (APME), NARAS, song coach at SongU.com, The Dramatists Guild. Randy is an Exclusive Steinway Artist. www.randyklein.com