Udi Harpaz is an Israeli-born composer and conductor.

Udi Harpaz started his career in Hollywood orchestrating & arranging for Television, working on shows such as Little House on the Prairie, Fame, Cheers and Knight Rider. In 1984 he was hired to compose the theme to theme for the cult TV series Airwolf and since then he's gone on to compose for many other TV shows and Movies, including Shell Game, Annihilator, Shadow of Obsession, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Tim Conway's-Funny America and many more. As well as his work for live action show, Udi has composed for several animated series, such as Mister T and Centurions for Ruby-Spears, as well as Space Cats and more recently, Digimon: The Movie, among others.

Since 1992, Udi has divided his time between Los Angeles and Israel where he has recorded his symphonic scores for Movies, including Digimon and Casper: A Spirited Beginning, as well as working extensively for BMG, composing/conducting & producing over 30 symphonic CDs. This music has been featured on numerous TV shows Including Dancing with the Stars, America's Got Talent and more.

Udi has also been involved as a composer and music director on a numerous stage shows, such as Night of the Sultans, Masada, Fantazi, Ali Baba & the 40 Thieves, Aladdin and many others. While working on the dance show Night of the Sultans, Udi had the opportunity to collaborate with Turkish musicians, recording the music there in Istanbul. For the musical drama Masada, Udi travelled to conduct the Moscow Symphony Orchestra in Russia for a ten-day recording session, a year later directing and conducted that show once more in a gala performance at the Schubert Theatre in Los Angeles. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.