Udi Perlman (b. 1990) is a Tel Aviv-born, Berlin-based composer. With vibrant harmonies and kaleidoscopic textures, his compositions reveal lyricism and beauty hidden within simple gestures through imaginative recontextualization and evocative juxtapositions. Rooted in a love of the Western classical canon, his work reimagines its forms and idioms through a distinct cultural lens, drawing on the influences of his Jewish-Israeli roots.

His music has been commissioned and performed by the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Haifa Symphony Orchestra, Yale Philharmonia, Symphonieorchester der Universität der Künste Berlin, Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra, and the Jerusalem Street Orchestra; by ensembles including Ensemble Modern Academy, Meitar Ensemble, Israel Contemporary Players, Ensemble Arava, Concierto Ibérico, KIMI Ensemble, Lysander Piano Trio, loadbang, the Israeli Chamber Project, and Duo Shiluv; and by vocal groups including the Yale Glee Club, polyLens Vocal, The Israeli Vocal Ensemble, and The Gary Bertini Israeli Choir, among others.

Recognitions include the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Pogorzelski‑Yankee Award, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Composer Award, and the America‑Israel Cultural Foundation’s Aviv Competitions Composition Prize. He has been an artist fellow at MacDowell, I-Park, and Herrenhaus Edenkoben, and held fellowships at the Aspen Music Festival, Bang on a Can Summer Festival, and the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music. He is a member of the Young Academy at the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz.

Music education is central to his practice. He serves on the music theory faculty at the Jerusalem Music Center, directs the Jerusalem Street Orchestra Mentorship Program, and has taught at SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences and Yale University.

Perlman holds a DMA in composition from the Yale School of Music, where his doctoral thesis received the Friedmann Thesis Prize. He holds further degrees from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin. His primary teachers have included Christopher Theofanidis, Aaron Jay Kernis, David Lang, Martin Bresnick, Jörg Widmann, Wolfgang Rihm, Yinam Leef, and Menachem Wiesenberg.