Praised for his “fascinating, surprising, rich, and colorful” music by Haaretz, Udi Perlman (b. 1990) is an Israeli composer based in Berlin, recognized as one of his country’s “most promising contemporary composers.”

His orchestral, chamber, and vocal music has been commissioned and performed by ensembles across the U.S., Europe, and Israel. He is the recipient of a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Pogorzelski‑Yankee Award, and the Israeli Prime Minister’s Composer Award, and has held fellowships at MacDowell and the Aspen Music Festival. He holds a DMA from the Yale School of Music and degrees from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and the Barenboim‑Said Akademie in Berlin.