- Jan Randall
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Name = Jan Randall
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Background = solo_singer
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Born = Birth date and age|1952|7|26|mf=yPhiladelphia ,Pennsylvania , U.S.
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Instrument =piano
guitar
Genre = Folk
Blues
Jazz
Classical
Soundtrack
Occupation =Singer-songwriter Composer
Years_active = 1967 – present
Label =iTunes
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URL = [http://www.arlo.net/ Official Website]
Notable_instruments =Canadian composer Jan Randall was born inPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania , in 1952. His family moved toEdmonton, Alberta , Canada, in 1961, and they became Canadian citizens in 1967.He received a Bachelor of Music in 1975 majoring in Theory and Composition from the
University of Alberta . There he studied composition, orchestration and conducting withMalcolm Forsyth andViolet Archer .An alumni Musical Director/Composer for
Second City , Randall appeared on "SCTV", collaborating with Mike Myers,Catherine O’Hara ,Ron James ,Richard Kind , andRyan Stiles . He also performed withThree Dead Trolls in a Baggie ,Rapid Fire Theatre andTheatresports . He was founding Music Director for the live improvised soap operaDie-Nasty .Commissioned works by Randall include a
ballet for the National Ice Theatre of Canada, "A Midsummer Night’s Ice Dream" (1992) followed by "Tangled Ice Webs" (1998) and "Poetry in Motion" (2006). He is credited as a Composer for 1996World Figure Skating Championships , and Composer/Music Director for the 2001IAAF World Championships in Athletics . The cast included the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, seven thousand dancers, a dozen feature acts, and a one thousand voice choir. Event was broadcast live to over four billion people worldwide. . From 1995-2007 he was Music Director for theBanff World Television Festival .In 1985 he built Randall's Recordings, a
recording studio that specializes in production of music for film and television.SOCAN , the Canadian performing rights society, has over 700 broadcast productions with credits of original music from this facility.Randall has performed live with
Bo Diddley ,Otis Rush ,Amos Garrett ,Sha Na Na ,Spencer Davis , Sam Lay (drummer forPaul Butterfield andHowlin' Wolf ) andGary U.S. Bonds . Jan Randall is the music director for the annualBanff World Television Festival and has worked on tributes forJohn Cleese ,Bob Newhart ,Dame Edna ,Martin Short ,Steve Allen andKelsey Grammer .Currently he is the radio host of the weekly classical music series "The Weekend Breakfast Shows" on
CKUA .He is 3rd cousin to folk singer
Arlo Guthrie .Discography
* Good Fair World (2008) [http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/janrandall]
Television Soundtracks
*"Lost Over Burma" (
National Film Board of Canada / news documentary)
*"Wilderness Journeys" (Discovery Channel /nature series),
*"Geek TV" (ACCESS/comedy series)
*"Naked Frailties" (drama/feature film)
*"Purple Gas" (comedy/ feature film)External links
*imdb name|0709608
* [http://www.secondcity.com/?id=history/alumni/edmonton The Second City Edmonton Alumni] list 1982
* [http://www.ckua.com CKUA]
* [http://www.gcfc.ca Guild of Canadian Film Composers]
* [http://www.socan.ca SOCAN]
* [http://www.ampia.org AMPIA] (Alberta Motion Picture Industry Ass.)
* [http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/janrandall Good Fair World]
* [http://www.sonicbids.com/janrandall SonicBids]
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