John Sawoski will play keyboards with the orchestra for Disneyland's Annual Candlelight Concert, featuring a 650-voice choir, various soloists, and a celebrity guest narrator. Town Square, Disneyland. The orchestra, made up mostly of Los Angeles studio musicians, performs a beautifully moving collection of Christmas music, from Handel's Hallelujah Chorus to songs and carols arranged by Bob Krogstad, John Rutter, Jack Askew, Peter Knight, Ken Whitcomb, musical director Bruce Healey, and others. The conductor is Nancy Sulahian, Director of Chamber Singers in the Los Angeles Master Chorale. To get an idea of what this unadvertised yet huge event is like for Disneyland Park visitors, click here.

October 2008 Issue of Keyboard Magazine calls Quantum Leap Pianos "The New Meaning of Heavyweight"

Click here to read an excerpt of a review from the October 2008 issue of Keyboard Magazine calling the EastWest Quantum Leap Pianos “The New Meaning of Heavyweight,” “the biggest, most ambitious sampled piano project ever, with the sound quality to prove it,” and  “by far the most detailed and biggest-sounding pianos of the bunch.” (The entire article is here.)

John Sawoski, the pianist who actually played every note sampled in three of the four Quantum Leap Pianos (the Bosendorfer, the Steinway, and the Bechstein), is pictured here in August 2006 at the Bechstein at EastWest Studios in Hollywood during a break in the Quantum Leap Pianos recording sessions.

John Sawoski, Carl Rigoli, and Richard Maloof played John Sawoski's trio arrangements of themes from television programs nominated for 2008 Emmy Awards in Cinematography, as part of Eastman Kodak's Salute to Cinematography/em>, a private event and ceremony honoring eighteen of the 2008 Emmy nominees in cinematography.