Randy Roos

Randy Roos is an active guitarist, teacher, composer, studio owner and engineer/producer. Currently leader of Vertigo-Z and a member of Club d'Elf and Van Gogh Shadowtree, he has a number of CD and vinyl releases to his credit stretching back to the cult band Orchestra Luna and including several CDs on the Narada label. Randy is an Emmy-nominated TV composer and since 1991 has scored and produced the music for the PBS series Scientific American Frontiers. He is the former owner of the Roosongs studio in Boston, and now has a new recording facility, Squam Sound, situated near the filming location of the classic, On Golden Pond.

Randy has written for Guitar Player magazine and has been featured in Electronic Musician. After teaching at New England Conservatory for fourteen years, he joined the Berklee faculty in 2003, where he now serves as Associate Professor of Guitar and Music Synthesis.