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BACKGROUND: John Sawoski began composing music at the age of 10, writing pieces for piano. While a sophomore at Stanford University, he composed, arranged, and conducted a new musical called How to Become a Legend in Your Own Mind. He was then commissioned to compose songs for Stanford's annual musical shows, Gaieties 83: Raiders of the Lost Axe, and Gaieties 84: Cardinal Sins. His work also appeared in Centennial Gaieties 91. Since moving to Los Angeles, he has composed, arranged, and recorded for several film and TV productions including Showboy, Winning Ugly: Twenty Years Later (for the Chicago White Sox), The Woman Chaser (featured at the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center), Wings, What's Shakin', and Day of Atonement. He composed and produced a soundtrack for Hearing the Call, a training film for The United Way. He wrote and arranged for Psalms & Acclamations and Centering Music, (Children's Christian Rock Albums), for Resource Publications, San Jose. He has also arranged and orchestrated for The Leading Ladies, Dennis McNeil, and The Capistrano Valley Symphony. His pop/rock arrangements are heard on Van Nuys Blvd., by The Adam Yurman Project (Pop Album), Crown Records, Tokyo, and he recently orchestrated music for The Feast of Lights, by Tannoz. He has also done theatrical arranging, for the Kevin McGuire Show, as well as writing the music for a production of Act Without Words, by Samuel Becket. Please click here for original Music Clips. Click here for complete resume.
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Last updated: 11/12/08