Vladimir Horunzhy

Vladimir Horunzhy
Born Vladimir Horunzhy
(1949-09-19) September 19, 1949
Kiev, Ukraine
Occupation Film producer, composer
Years active 1975–present

Vladimir Anatolieyvych Horunzhy (born September 19, 1949 in Kiev) is a film producer and composer. In the late 70's led the Pop-Symphony Orchestra of Radio and Television of Ukraine. Moved to the U.S. in 1981. The first project, which he participated as a composer there, was the soap opera “Santa Barbara”.

A native of Kiev, Vladimir's music career began at the age of 5 when he received his first piano lesson. Within two years, he composed his first original piece. He studied piano and composition at Lisenko Music School (similar to Juilliard School) and Kiev Conservatory of Music. An active jazz musician, Vladimir performed at Soviet jazz festivals in Tallinn, Moscow, Donetsk and throughout the Soviet Union. At age 26 he became principal conductor and staff composer for the Ukrainian National TV and Radio Orchestra, Kiev. Living in Budapest, Vladimir composed and conducted for Hungarian State Orchestra. Entering the realm of film scoring, he scored feature films and animation. He also performed with jazz-rock groups throughout the European community. In 1981 Vladimir came to New York, where he had the opportunity to work with George Benson, Michael Brecker, Marcus Miller and Michael Urbaniak, to name just a few. In the course of his work, Vladimir met film composing-great Jerry Goldsmith. Orchestrating for and studying with the Master, Vladimir further refined his art of film scoring. Starting in 1991 Vladimir Horunzhy produced his first feature. Comedy "High Strung" had the all star cast and became an instant hit with fans of Jim Carrey, Steve Oedekerk, Fred Willard and Kirsten Dunst (her first part in the movies). There are more than 60 features, TV and animation films produced and/or scored by Vladimir Horunzhy. Since 2006 along with US based production company, producing Ukrainian film projects. In 2009 he founded the production company/studio inQ located in Kiev, Ukraine.

Filmography

Producer

Composer

Quotes

Our goal - to make Kiev a film set of Hollywood and Europe. And I will not rest until we’ll bring over multimillion dollar film productions. Interview for Elle Ukraine № 108. May 2010

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