Over the years this explorer of musical landscapes has traveled successfully across many diverse musical territories as a musician, arranger, producer and film composer. Studied at Berklee College of Music (Boston-USA)

Started his musical career as a studio guitarist with a few thousands sessions to his credit for artists from the 5 continents : Midnight Oil, Patricia Kaas, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Roger Hodgson (Supertramp), John Wetton (Asia), Manu Dibango, Billy Preston, Justin Hayward (Moody Blues), Jon Anderson (Yes), Zucchero, Anggun, Jean Michel Jarre and Alan Simon (Gaia , Excalibur) to name just a few.

He soon became an accomplished arranger with several gold and platinum credits to his name . Claude evolved quite naturally into producing and composing music for film and more personal projects. When not working as a musician/Musical Director for electronic music pioneer Jean Michel Jarre (since 2004), Claude writes music for Film/TV Series/VideoGames and Music Libraries. Claude SAMARD POLIKAR’s unique compositional versatility led him to involvement in far-ranging projects like scoring UbiSoft’s runaway international video game hit Rayman as well as composing reggae songs for Rita Marley (Bob's wife). But it is in working with film directors that his talents find their most complete medium of expression. His first movie soundtrack "Bo Ba Bu" (Directed by Uzbek Ali Khamraev) won the Best Music Award in 2001 at the Shanghai International FIlm Festival. “The folk music of central Asia and modern music are beautifully blended in BO BA BU” was the Jury's comment. He recently worked for Maxime Alexandre on "Holy Money" (2009) and with Max Sender on "Christopher Roth" (2010 - voted Best Music at Sao Paulo-Brazil 5th Cinefantastic Festival.