The composer Jonathan Goldstein and his wife, saxophonist Hannah Goldstein have died along with their seven-month old daughter, Saskia, after the light aircraft they were travelling in crashed in Switzerland.
Swiss police confirmed that a Piper plane which had taken off from an airfield in Western Switzerland on Sunday morning had crashed approximately 90 minutes later near the Italian border. Three bodies were recovered from the wreckage.
Mr Goldstein, who began his career as a music director for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, would go on to assist on the soundtrack for Martin Scorsese’s Cape Fear, as well as re-recordings of famous soundtracks such as the score to the director’s classic movie Taxi Driver.
In 2007 he was nominated for an Ivor Novello award for his score for the BBC/HBO film Primo, adapted from the memoirs of Auschwitz survivor Primo Levy.
