Harold Wheeler

Harold Wheeler (born June 14, 1943 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an orchestrator, composer, conductor, arranger, record producer, and music director. He has received numerous Tony Award and Drama Desk Award nominations for orchestration, and won the 2003 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations for Hairspray. Wheeler was named Music Conductor for the 76th Academy Awards, becoming only the second African-American conductor in the Academy's his... more

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