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Richard Horowitz is the founding artistic director of the Gnaoua Music Festival in Essaouira Morocco and was nominated for the American Academy of Arts and Letters Goddard Liberson Awardby Paul Bowles in 1982. He has recorded and performed with vocalist Sussan Deyhim since the early eighties. Their recordings and multimedia operas include Majoun (Sony Classical) Azax/Attra:Desert Equations, The Ghost of Ibn Sabbah and The Gift of Love (Deepak Chopra/Mother Teresa). He also collaborated with Deyhim and Shirin Neshat on the multimedia production Logic of the Birds produced by Lincoln Center, Art Angel in London and The Ortiga Festival in Siracusa Sicily. He is currently working on a new opera with Deyhim: Zarathustra's Mother.

He has recently completed the score for the film Les Amants de Mogador starring Max Von Sydow and is producing cheky Karyo's first recording for Universal Music France. He has also worked with Jon Hassell, David Byrne, Jaron Lanier Duncan Sheik, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Michael Brook, Hassan Hakmoun, Branford Marsalis, Hector Zazu, Doug Wimbish, Will Calhoun, Gram Haynes, Suzanne Vega, Steve Shehan, Marius Devries, Rufus Wainwright, Mickey Hart, Adrian Sherwood, Frank Serafine, and Bill Laswell.