Horner, James

James Horner was born in Los Angeles in 1953 and died in the Los Padres National Forest in 2015. James Horner was an American film composer and conductor. His music continues to be frequently performed, recorded, and studied by musicians and audiences around the world. He is known for integrating choral and electronic elements into traditional orchestrations and for using motifs from Celtic music. Horner worked on more than 160 film and television productions between 1978 and 2015. He also wrote the music for the most successful film of all time, Cameron's Avatar. His distinct, expressive, imaginative, influential, and enduring musical legacy lives on.