Richard Horowitz – Film Composer
Richard Horowitz was a composer, producer, arranger, and musician – He was best known for his work on The Sheltering Sky, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, which was awarded the 1990 Golden Globe and LA Film Critics Music Awards; Any Given Sunday, directed by Oliver Stone, which was awarded the 2000 BMI Music Award; and Majoun an album released on Sony Classical in 1997, with Sussan Deyhim. He performed his score for 1999 Three Seasons, (directed by Toni Bui produced by Harvey Keitel, Jacon Kliot and Joanna Vincente) live at the Sundance Film Festival‘s 25th Anniversary Benefit in New York in 2006. Horowitz was known for creating a unique sonic language by fusing together his roots in classical, jazz and electronic music with the intensity of the trance music he first experienced in Morocco at the age of nineteen. Other film credits as composer include Kajarya, Intersections, Zero, Highway, Johnny’s Gone, Love in the Medina, Kandagar, Genghis Khan: The Story of a Lifetime, Casanegra, Tobruk,, David & Layla, Inshallah: Diary of an Afghan Woman, Les amants de Mogador, Logic of the Birds, Skeleton Woman, Drowning on Dry Land, Tre stagioni, L’ombre du pharaon, Quattro bravi ragazzi, L’Atlantide, and La thune. Richard sadly passed away April 13, 2024 in Marakech, Morocco, his adopted home, at the age of 75.
