Philip Miller studied music composition in South Africa with composers Jeanne Zaidel Rudolph and Peter Klatzow at UCT’s College of Music. He completed his postgraduate studies in Electro-Acoustic music composition for film and television at Bournemouth University whilst continuing to study with UK composer Joseph Horovitz. He has worked with some of the most innovative filmmakers and visual artists to emerge from South Africa. He has composed music for the soundtracks to many local and international film and television productions including Steven Silver’s The Bang Bang Club, Butterflies; HBO’s The Girl directed by Julian Jarrold, Martha and Mary directed by Philip Noyce; and BBC’s The Borrowers.

Miller has collaborated extensively with internationally acclaimed artist, William Kentridge on projects such as The Refusal of Time at the Tate Modern,Miller’s choral work, Rewind: A cantata for voice, tape and testimony, based upon testimonies from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission had its US premiere in New York at the Celebrate Brooklyn Music Festival. In South Africa it has been performed at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg; Baxter Theatre in Cape Town and the Royal Festival Hall in London. Miller has also produced a number of albums including arrangements of traditional South African lullabies, The Thula Project, the soundtrack to both Black Box/ Chambre Noirand 9 Drawings for Projection by William Kentridge. Other works include Shona Malanga which is arrangements of freedom songs, and the soundtrack to White Lion. His latest CD soundtrack release is The Refusal of Time, which premiered in 2012 at Dokumenta13 in Germany and will be presented at the New York Museum of Metropolitan Art.