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John Sawoski, born in Philadelphia, has been a Los Angeles-based pianist, composer, and musical director since 1985. Besides serving as principal keyboardist for The Riverside County Philharmonic and The Capistrano Valley Symphony (which he has also guest conducted), he has performed with The Pasadena Pops, The Long Beach Symphony, The San Bernardino Symphony, The Redlands Symphony, The California Pops, and The Orange County Four Seasons Orchestra. He has played for Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Bush, for the Los Angeles Music Center Spotlight Awards (televised on KCET), Les Miserables, Avenue Q, A Chorus Line, 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 Mark Taper Forum, The Pageant of the Masters, and Disney's Candlelight Concert. Mr. Sawoski has created hundreds of orchestrations and arrangements for singers for whom he has accompanied and music directed, including The Leading Ladies, Gregg Marx, Leslie Zemeckis, Dennis McNeil, Rodney Gilfry, Yma Sumac, and Marnie Breckenridge. He has also accompanied Frank Sinatra Jr., Michael Feinstein, Michael Crawford, Dale Kristien, Rachel York, Lisa Vroman, Sam Harris, Lucie Arnaz, Jim Carrey, Seth MacFarlane, Mable King, Audra McDonald, Regis Philbin, Susan Lucci, The Fifth Dimension, and many others. He has composed, arranged, and recorded for numerous film and TV scores including The Starter Wife, 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 played on camera on Walk Hard, Rumor Has It, Las Vegas, Will & Grace, Veronica's Closet, LA Confidential, The Wedding Singer, Frasier, Man on the Moon, and HBO's Live From Baghdad. Mr. Sawoski recently played piano and did some arranging on Peter Sheridan’s album Flute Colors, due to be released soon by Move Records (Australia). His other album credits include playing keyboards for Robert Drasnin’s album Voodoo II (Dionysus Records), The Adam Yurman Project (Crown Records, Tokyo), and for Saylor Shin (Korean vocalist and #1 hit songwriter).
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John Sawoski, born in Philadelphia, has been a Los Angeles-based pianist, composer, and musical director since 1985. Besides serving as principal keyboardist for The Riverside County Philharmonic and The Capistrano Valley Symphony (which he has also guest conducted), he has performed with The Pasadena Pops, The Long Beach Symphony, The San Bernardino Symphony, The Redlands Symphony, The California Pops, and The Orange County Four...
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