The Music of John Sawoski

Keyboardist / Composer / Producer

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Please click http://www.LAPianist.com for the official home page of Los Angeles-based keyboardist, composer, and producer John Sawoski. John Sawoski has played for Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Bush, for Les Miserables, Both Barrels: A Salvo of John Forster Songs, The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Disney's Beauty and The Beast, The Secret Garden, Cathy Rigby's Peter Pan, The Pasadena Pops, The Capistrano Valley Symphony, The Riverside County Philharmonic, The Mark Taper Forum, Rodney Gilfry, Yma Sumac, Regis Philbin, Susan Lucci, Mable King, Audra McDonald, Leslie Zemeckis, and Cardinal Roger Mahoney; composed, arranged, and recorded for several film and TV scores including ShowBoy, Winning Ugly: Twenty Years Later (for the Chicago White Sox), The Woman Chaser, and Day of Atonement; composed music for three musicals performed at Stanford University (his alma mater); and has appeared on Las Vegas, Will & Grace, Veronica's Closet, LA Confidential, The Wedding Singer, Frasier, Man on the Moon, and HBO's Live From Baghdad. He is currently musical director and arranger for The Leading Ladies, with whom he recently appeared on the Jerry Lewis Telethon.

Please click the links at the left for performances and news, music clips, and more information about John Sawoski and his distinguished colleagues. And don't forget to bookmark this page and join John's email list.

The Latest:

Concert with Perviz, Academy Awards, Sawoski Music in TV Movie, Married Flutes Concert, Staar Video Clip, and More

News: Dennis McNeil, Disneyland Candlelight with Dick Van Dyke, The Leading Ladies on the Road, Rumor Has It, and more

Musical Styles Classical, Jazz, Film, TV, Musical Theater, and Easy Listening

Instruments Piano, synthesizer

Press Reviews & Quotes "enormously entertaining... Sawoski’s seamless segues transported the singer smoothly from one song to the next, and kept the audience involved and delighted. [A] brilliant pianist, John Sawoski supported [the singer] at every turn with sensitivity and style." Mountain News, Oct. 28, 2004 "A phenomenal find." -Drama-logue "... FABULOUS ... JOHN SAWOSKI is a superb keyboard artist..." -Big Bear Life and the Grizzly "I greatly enjoyed your mastery of the art of accompaniment" - Steve Allen "... Very entertaining..." -Dr.Demento, on the air "a dream to work with! The best Musical Director I've ever had the pleasure of knowing." - Evelyn Rudie, Artistic Director, Santa Monica Playhouse "the six-member ensemble [of Funny, You Don't Look Like A Grandmother], beautifully balanced under John Sawoski's fine musical direction, generates the largest pleasures." IN/LA Magazine "Your own arrangements and treatment of those (Japanese) songs made them more contemporary and interesting. I like what you did..." - Lalo Schifrin "great accompaniment" - Rhonda Fleming "An excellent pianist and accompanist, and amazingly versatile as well." - Mabel King "Should do a solo piano album..." - Henry Mancini "Fantastic pianist. Sensitive, subtle... perfect for the room." - Harry Nilsson "Really blew the people away... audience [is] still talking about the [celebrity benefit] show." - Robert Young, Chairman, Western Spaceport Museum and Science Center "He not only looks like a dream, but he plays like a dream, which is rare - let's face it..." - Beatrice Straight "A talented keyboard stylist... Classically trained, [he] is also great with Broadway show tunes as well as pop and rock selections." - Wally Cedar, Editor, The Regency Report

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PO Box 7060, Beverly Hills, CA 90212

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