US authorities confirm death of film composer … – Terra Brazil

The US authorities confirmed on Tuesday the death of the composer James Horner, winner of two Oscars for the soundtrack of “Titanic”, after his small plane was involved yesterday in an accident on the outskirts of Santa Barbara, Calif.

In a statement, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA, acronym in English), said the small plane Horner, “a single-engine S312 Tucano MK1 crashed under unknown circumstances” close to the National Forest Los Padres , about 100 km north of Santa Barbara. “The pilot was killed,” the FAA in the note.

Soon after, the Horner agents, Michael Gorfaine and Sam Schwartz, officially announced the death of the composer 61 the newspaper “Los Angeles Times”. Until then, Horner was considered disappeared.

Throughout his career, Horner received ten Academy Award nominations and won two with the film “Titanic” in 1997, one for the soundtrack and the other by the song of this film, “My Heart Will Go On” , played by Canadian singer Céline Dion.

Horner was also nominated by the compositions of “Aliens: The Rescue,” “Apollo 13,” “A Beautiful Mind,” “Avatar,” “Braveheart,” “Field of Dreams” and “House of Sand and Fog “, besides the song” Somewhere Out There “, the children’s film” Fievel – An American Tail. ”

Among the more than 100 tracks composed, are also successes like “The Mask of Zorro,” “Legends of the Fall,” “Casper: The Friendly Ghost Comrade,” “Jumanji” and “The Amazing Man -Aranha “.

Born in Los Angeles in 1953, Horner began playing piano at age 5 and graduated in London at the Royal College of Music, according to a biography published on the site “Imdb”, specializing in cinema.

In the 1970s, Horner returned to California to continue studying music at two universities that state, to do PhD in Music Composition and Theory at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).

After a while composing soundtracks for student projects, Horner had his first high-profile work in 1982 with “Star Trek II – The Wrath of Khan”. After that, Horner began to receive offers of increasingly renowned film directors.

During his career, the composer worked for George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, Oliver Stone and Ron Howard, among others.