Philip Miller

2016 has seen Triumphs & Laments in Rome which featured Miller's music for two processional marching bands with solo singers, choirs, musicians and dramatic live shadow play, all performed against the backdrop of Kentridge's 500 m frieze along the banks of the Tiber River.

A number of their collaborations are on tour in Europe in 2016, including Paper Music, which makes its German premiere at the Berlin Festspiele in July 2016 and The Refusal of Time at Whitechapel Gallery in London in September.

Miller is a contributing composer for the 2016 Darmstadt International Summer Course for New Music.

He also composed the music for the first episode of Roots, the series premiering on A+E Studios History channel mid-2016. This historical portrait of American slavery is directed by Phillip Noyce (Salt, Patriot Games, The Bone Collector). The cast includes Forest Whitaker, Anna Paquin, Laurence Fishburne and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

He won Best Original Music Score Award at the Canadian Screen Awards in March 2016 for The Book of Negroes – a 2015 miniseries adaptation of the 2007 award-winning novel by Canadian writer Lawrence Hill. The miniseries stars Louis Gossett Jr. and Cuba Gooding Jr.

An exhibition of sculptures by Deborah Bell which showed at the Everard Read Gallery in Johannesburg and Cape Town in 2015, which featured music and sound by Philip Miller: the chord of a single-stringed instrument, the call of a ram's horn, the sound of a violin or the chanting of a Xhosa sangoma.

A small-chamber opera in which Miller explores the subterranean sound world of miners in South Africa. The focus of this work dealt with the subterranean sound world of local miners – exploring the use of localised mining language or dialect "fanakalo", a pidgin language used in the mines – and how this reflects on the current mining crisis in South Africa and the tragic massacre of 38 miners at Marikana in 2013. Composed and created in 2014 in association with Cape Town Opera and the vocal ensemble it played both in Sweden and in Cape Town.

Part of an installation at The Kaunas Biennial (2009) (Lithuania). It used recorded telephone conversations with Holocaust survivors, which were then incorporated into the recordings of a local Lithuanian choir learning to sing an old Yiddish folk song which was popular at the time of the mass executions of Jews.

Reflections on the war in Iraq for tenor, soprano, violin, viola, cello, clarinet, piano, and electric piano played by Ensemble PI premiered in New York City in 2009.

Conceived and composed, in 2007, this became an award-winning choral work, based on the testimonies of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa. The cantata had its international debut in New York at the Celebrate Brooklyn! festival and has been performed at the Royal Festival Hall, London, Williams College 62 Centre for Theatre and Dance, the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, and Baxter Theatre, Cape Town.

This collaboration dates back to 1993 when he wrote the score for Kentridge's film Felix in Exile, part of his celebrated Soho Eckstein series. This evolved into the live concert series 9 Drawings for Projection and Black Box/Chambre Noir touring Australia, the UK, (Germany), Italy, Belgium, France and the US.

Philip Miller (born 7 June 1964) is a South African, international composer and sound artist based in Cape Town. His work is multi-faceted, often developing from collaborative projects in theatre, film, video and sound installations.