Michael Horvit
Michael Miller Horvit is an American composer. Horvit trained at Yale University and Boston University and studied with Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss and Walter Piston, as well as Quincy Porter and Gardner Read. He was a professor of music theory and composition on the faculty of the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston.
He is coauthor, with Thomas Benjamin and Robert Nelson, of Techniques and Materials of Music. Thomson Schirmer. 7th edition..Selected works
- Aleinu
- Concerto for Brass Quintet and Orchestra
- Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, 'Daughters of Jerusalem'
- Invocation and Exultation
- Ohiloa la'el
- The Cullen Overture
Recordings
- Horvit: The Cullen Overture and other works Albany 2000
