Jan Randall

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Jan Randall
Born	Jan Daniel Randall July 26, 1952 (1952-07-26) (age 55) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Years active	1968 – present
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Canadian composer Jan Randall was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1952. His family moved to Edmonton, 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 with Malcolm Forsyth and Violet Archer.

Musical Director/Composer for Toronto's The Second City comedy troupe, Randall appeared on "SCTV", collaborating with Mike Myers, Catherine O’Hara, Ron James, Richard Kind, and Ryan Stiles.

He improvised music for the Edmonton sketch comedy group Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie, and for Rapid Fire Theatre's improv comedy shows Chimprovand Theatresports.

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 1996 World Figure Skating Championships, and Composer/Music Director for the 2001 IAAF 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. .

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 for Paul Butterfield and Howlin' Wolf) and Gary U.S. Bonds. Jan Randall is the music director for the annual Banff World Television Festival and has worked on tributes for John Cleese, Bob Newhart, Dame Edna, Martin Short, Steve Allen and Kelsey Grammer.