Artist description John Sawoski, pianist/keyboardist/composer/producer with distinguished colleagues

Music Style Classical, Film, TV, Musical Theater, and Easy Listening

Musical Influences Chopin, Stravinsky, Henry Mancini, Peter Nero

Similar Artists Artur Rubinstein, Oscar Peterson, Liberace, Peter Nero

Artist History John Sawoski has played for the 2001 Presidential Inaugural, 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 Capistrano Valley Symphony, The Riverside County Philharmonic, The Mark Taper Forum, Yma Sumac, Mable King, Audra McDonald, and Archbishop Roger Mahoney; composed, arranged, and recorded for several film and TV scores including The Woman Chaser, What's Shakin', and Day of Atonement; composed music for three musicals performed at Stanford University (his alma mater); and has appeared on Will & Grace, Veronica's Closet, LA Confidential, The Wedding Singer, Frasier, and Jim Carrey's Man on the Moon. Mr. Sawoski is also co-founder of Swan Orchestral Systems.

Group Members John Sawoski, pianist/keyboardist/composer/producer with distinguished colleagues

Instruments Piano, synthesizer

Press Reviews "... Very entertaining..." -Dr.Demento, February 14, 1993 "... FABULOUS ... JOHN SAWOSKI is a superb keyboard artist..." -Big Bear Life and the Grizzly, October 8, 1992 "A phenomenal find." -Drama-logue, January 19,1989 "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." - Mable 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 IN/LA Magazine says "the six-member ensemble, beautifully balanced under John Sawoski's fine musical direction, generates the largest pleasures."

Location Los Angeles, California - USA

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