ABOUT

Dr Alexander Horowitz is a game development leader and audio specialist based in South East England. He is the Creative Craft Director at Electronic Arts' Criterion in Guildford, UK, contributing to the ongoing development of Battlefield. Alexander was previously the Audio Director at Criterion, the Audio Director at Improbable in London, and the Audio Lead at Studio Gobo in Brighton and Hove, directing the European audio team on Hogwarts Legacy, and contributing to its Grammy Award-nominated original score.

Prior to his work on Hogwarts Legacy, Alexander was the Head of Audio at Imaginati Studios, the games division of Andy Serkis' Imaginarium in London, and also worked on well-known AAA games including Red Dead Redemption 2 and GTA V: Online at Rockstar North, and Madden NFL 17 for Electronic Arts.

Having initially trained as a composer at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Alexander received a BAFTA New Talent nomination for the short film ‘Room 9’ in 2011 and graduated from the BMus (Hons) Composition programme in 2013 and the MEd Learning and Teaching in the Arts programme in 2026. At the Glasgow School of Art, he graduated from the MDes Sound for the Moving Image programme in 2015 and the MSc Serious Games and Virtual Reality programme in 2016, and successfully defended his PhD in Game Development in 2022.

Alexander is in demand internationally as a public speaker and guest lecturer on game development, audio, education, and accessibility. He has spoken at numerous universities, colleges, schools, and conferences, and presented the Audio Engineering Society’s Christmas Keynote 2021, at Audiokinetic’s Wwise Tour 2023 events in Hilversum, Netherlands, and Tokyo, Japan, at Devcom 2024 in Cologne, Germany, GameSoundCon 2024 and 2025 in Burbank, LA, and AuTECH 2025 in Monterrey, Mexico.

Involved extensively in the game development, audio, and education communities, Alexander is the Chair of the Audio Engineering Society’s UK Committee, the President-Elect of the Independent Society of Musicians, and a Liveryman-Elect of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, where he established the Video Game Composition Award.