Lee Holdridge

Having composed, orchestrated, or directed pieces for a broad range of esteemed popular musicians, Lee Holdridge has likewise created numerous soundtracks for both television programs and feature films. Born in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti and raised in Costa Rica, he took up the violin at age ten under the guidance of a conductor from the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica. During his teenage years he resolved to pursue composition as a career, prompting a move to Boston for formal study. Several years afterward he relocated to New York City, where he produced chamber pieces, rock works, theatrical scores, and incidental music for motion pictures. Recognition from Neil Diamond prompted Holdridge to settle in Los Angeles and contribute material for the singer, an association that yielded multiple successful albums and included their joint effort on the soundtrack for Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

Those projects opened doors to film and television scoring assignments that encompassed Splash, Big Business, Mr. Mom, Micki & Maude, 16 Days of Glory, The Other Side of the Mountain, Pt. II, Mustang Country, The Beastmaster, Jeremy, the Cannes Festival-award-winning Sylvester, A Tiger's Tale, and El Pueblo del Sol, along with the series Moonlighting, Beauty and the Beast, the eight-hour East of Eden remake, The Tenth Man, Dreamer of Oz, Hallmark Hall of Fame's One Against the Wind, and The Story Lady. Parallel opportunities arose to collaborate with Barbra Streisand, Brian May of Queen, Stevie Wonder, John Denver, Al Jarreau, Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross, Natalie Cole, and opera tenor Placido Domingo. Holdridge has also released a number of recordings, among them El Pueblo del Sol, the Grammy-award-winning Symphonic Hollywood, Film Music, and Into Thin Air: Death on Everest.