Alexander Horowitz (born January 1991) is a British composer and pianist. He studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the

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. Horowitz received a BAFTA New Talent nomination in 2011. In 2013, Horowitz created the score for the Scottish short film '' The Groundsman'', starring

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. The same year, Horowitz created a score for the theatre show Toi Toi Toi. Horowitz's score blended themes from Mozart,

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, and

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with his original compositions. In 2020, Horowitz accompanied the harpist Heidi Krutzen for a performance of Alexander Scriabin's Etude. He is the audio director at Improbable in London, and was previously head of audio at the games division of

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in London, and the audio lead at Studio Gobo in

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, which produced ''

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''. Horowitz's score incorporated some motifs from

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' original

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score with subdued whimsical pieces that accompanied the player's journey around the

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's open world. His works The Room of Hidden Things and A Focused Mind appear on the ''Hogwarts Legacy'' album ''Study Themes from the Original Video Game Soundtrack''.

Selected works

He has created film and theatre scores and worked on video game music for Avalanche Software,

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, Rockstar Games and

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References

External links

IMDb profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Horowitz, Alexander Living people 1991 births British male pianists Alumni of the Glasgow School of Art Alumni of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Video game developers British video game composers British male film score composers