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Lee Elwood Holdridge (born March 3, 1944) is a Haitian-born American composer, conductor, and orchestrator. An 18-time Emmy Award nominee, he has won two Primetime Emmy Awards , two Daytime Emmy Awards , two News and Documentary Emmy Awards , and one Sports Emmy Award .
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- Leslie Holdridge (father)
- Lee Elwood Holdridge, March 3, 1944 (age 79), Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Biography. Lee Holdridge was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. His mother was Puerto Rican and his father American. He spent his early years in Costa Rica, beginning music studies on the violin at the age of ten with Hugo Mariani, then the conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica.
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Welcome. Lee is completely at home in film music, concert music, opera and songwriting. Lee’s recent film scores include Walking With Destiny , Brothers at War and Great Voices Sing John Denver. Previous scores include the eclectic Korgoth of Barbaria and Puerto Vallarta Squeeze. Concert works include the orchestral suite Scenes of Summer and ...
Holdridge, Lee (3rd March 1944-Present) He is a composer, orchestrator, arranger, musician and conductor born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti whose father was a climatologist and botanist. When he was 10 years old he lived with his family in Costa Rica and took studies in the violin with the conductor and composer Hugo Mariani.
Lee Holdridge. Composer: Old Gringo. Lee Holdridge was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He is a composer, known for Old Gringo (1989), Splash (1983) and The Mists of Avalon (2001).
- January 1, 1
- 2 min
- Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Since that time, Holdridge has scored over 150 film and television projects. In the 1980's, Holdridge scored the biggest motion pictures of his career, including such popular favorites as Splash, The Beastmaster, El Pueblo del Sol, and Old Gringo. His television work was (and has remained) far more prolific, with early television efforts ...
About this interview. In his two-hour-and-forty-minute interview, Lee Holdridge talks about his parents' influence on his career and moving to Boston at an early age to study music. He discusses his early paid composing jobs, doing arrangements for RCA records, being a dance arranger for Broadway shows, working with mentor Milt Okun and Placido ...
