Richard Horowitz

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Richard Horowitz specialized in music from the Middle East. From 1968 to 1979, he lived in Paris and Morocco, where he studied music, Arabic, French, and Oriental philosophy while performing throughout Europe and Morocco. Horowitz had musical roots in classical, jazz, and electronic/computer music, and he studied trance, tribal, classical, and sacred music from North Africa to Indonesia. He played keyboards, percussion, and various wind instruments, including the ney, an obliquely blown reed flute. Horowitz scored many feature films and rec...