Click at left to view the video. In this
scene from the movie
Showboy,
the lead character tours the Liberace Museum in Las Vegas and
fantasizes about playing a piece that sounds like something
Liberace would play (actually composed and performed by John
Sawoski).
Voodoo
II Album Videos
John Sawoski's keyboard-playing can now
be heard on
Robert Drasnin's newly-released album, Voodoo II, with Mike
Lang, Bobby Shulgold, Peggy Baldwin, and others. See these
You-Tube Videos for more information.
John Sawoski appears in several scenes in Sony Pictures' "Walk
Hard"
John Sawoski
appears in several scenes of Sony Pictures' 2008
release of "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story," contracted by
Rick Fleishman of Visual Music. Click at left to watch the
trailer, in which John Sawoski appears momentarily in a
scene with "Elvis Presley," played by Jack White of
White Stripe.
This program will be broadcast on KCET-TV (PBS) in Los
Angeles in early 2008.
John Sawoski Plays and Conducts on the 2004 Jerry Lewis Telethon (Video
removed - please contact
John@LAPianist.com for more information)
John Sawoski, Pianist / Arranger / Orchestrator /
Musical Director
John Sawoski's appearance as
pianist / arranger / orchestrator / musical director on the 2004
Jerry Lewis Telethon, playing piano and
conducting The Leading Ladies and the orchestra, consisting of top Los Angeles
session players like Rick Baptist, Ken Wild, Larry White, Gene Cipriano, Sal Lozano, Albie Berk, and many more, in a medley of
songs from musical theatre and Phantom of the Opera.
The Leading Ladies
Video Demo
(Video removed - please contact
John@LAPianist.com for
more information)
John Sawoski, Pianist / Arranger / Musical Director
Vocalists: Lisa
Vroman, Mary D'Arcy, Elizabeth Ward Land, Luann Aronson, and
others
The Leading Ladies -
Between 2001 and 2006, John Sawoski worked
as pianist / arranger /
orchestrator / musical director with a
soprano trio called The Leading Ladies. This archival
demo video includes highlights of performances.
(warning: rated R for explicit lyric and visual content)
John Sawoski, pianist / musical
director
Leslie Zemeckis,
singer/dancer/actress (wife of film director Robert Zemeckis)
performing one of her signature songs as
Staar
on stage at the Conga Room in Los Angeles, with pianist/musical
director John Sawoski and his band (warning: explicit lyric
content).