Steve Horowitz

Steve Horowitz (born October 3, 1964 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York) is an American composer, producer, audio engineer, musician, author, and educator. He is perhaps best known as the composer for the Academy Awards-winning Morgan Spurlock documentary film Super Size Me. Steve is the long-standing audio director of Nickelodeon Digital.
== Career ==
Steve attended Berkeley High School (California). He studied music composition at the California Institute of the Arts, alongside or under the mentorship of notable composers such as Mel Powell, Morton Subotnick, Michael Jon Fink, and Stephen L. Mosko|Stephen "Lucky" Mosko.
Since 2004 Steve has been a contributing member of the Interactive Audio Special Interest Group, developing curriculum and procedure to be utilized in graduate and undergraduate interactive audio programs.
In 2013, under partnership with avant-garde pianist and fellow CalArts alumni Scott Looney, Steve founded the Game Audio Institute, a venture to develop and propagate video game audio-focused instructional materials and college-level educational framework to private individuals and various Accreditation universities, respectively. The following year, the duo authored the interactive audio textbook The Essential Guide to Game Audio: The Theory and Practice of Sound for Games.
Throughout the span of his career, Steve's creative contributions have made him recipient of various awards:
* 1997 Grammy Awards in support of Todd Phillips (musician) for his role as audio engineer on the compilation album True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe.
* 2003 Webby Awards for audio direction of the Nick.com website design.
* 2003 Broadcast Design award for audio direction on Max And Ruby Toy Bowling.
* 2003 Broadcast Design award for audio direction on a Wonder Pets! interactive media project entitled Wonder Pets Save The Day.
* 2017 Kidscreen Awards for audio direction on Nickelodeon Digital's Nickelodeon: Code a Character.
* 2020 Kidscreen Award for music composition and audio direction on Nickelodeon's Do Not Touch augmented reality mobile game.
Steve currently resides in San Francisco, California with his wife and son. He is an active lecturer of music composition for games, film, and television at San Francisco State University, and faculty of the Audio for Visual Media department at Academy of Art University.
== Gameography ==
Year	Title 	Role
1994	Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: The Second Cataclysm 	Composer
2003	Max And Ruby Toy Bowling 	Audio Director
2007	Wonder Pets Save The Day 	Audio Director
2008	Dora the Explorer: Dora Saves the Snow Princess 	Audio Director, Producer
2008	Dora the Explorer: Dora Saves the Mermaids 	Audio Director, Producer
2009	Dora the Explorer: Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom	Audio Director, Producer
2010	Dora the Explorer: Dora's Big Birthday Adventure 	Audio Director, Producer
2010	Dora the Explorer: Swiper's Big Adventure 	Audio Director, Producer
2010	Dora's Cooking Club 	Audio Director, Producer
2010	SpongeBob's Boating Bash 	Audio Director, Producer
2010	Oceanis 	Composer, Sound Designer
2020	The Loud House: Outta Control 	Composer
== Filmography ==
Year	Title 	Role
2002	I Bet You Will 	Composer
2004	Super Size Me 	Composer
2004	Casino Cinema 	Composer
2005	Don Gorske: Mac Daddy 	Composer
2007	What Would Jesus Buy? 	Composer
2008	Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden?	Composer
2010	The Lift 	Composer
== Discography ==
As Steve Horowitz
Year	Title 	Label
1993	The CODE 	FOT Records
1997	San Francisco Chronicled 1990-1996	Ponk 016
2009	Stations Of The Breath 	Fluff-Tone Media
2012	New Monsters 	Posi-Tone
As Steve Horowitz & The Code Ensemble
Year	Title 	Label
2008	The ReTaking Of Pelham One Two Three	Fluff-Tone Media
Category:1964 births
Category:American composers
Category:American producers
Category:American audio engineers