Music Clips

This page is your guide to the audio-visual content on this web site.

  • Piano-playing Audio Clips – John Sawoski plays commercials, classical concerts, film scores, theatrical performances, and more
  • Albums Discography – Browse John Sawoski’s discography and listen to his recordings and other recordings on which he has worked as pianist, keyboardist, producer, arranger, orchestrator, or keyboardist. John Sawoski’s independently-released MP3s were played via streaming audio over 130,000 times on MP3.com, and several of his recordings topped the MP3.com listening charts (click here and here to see example charts).
  • Video Clips – Clips with music and video.
  • Film/TV Music – music for the visual media. Scores composed, performed, and/or conducted by John Sawoski
  • Demonstration Recordings and other audio clips are below

Chopin Scherzo #2 in B-flat Minor  – John Sawoski plays the Quantum Leap Pianos Steinway.


Jacques Ibert Flute Concerto Excerpt  – Zachary Valenzuela, Flute with John Sawoski, Pianist  
From the album Masterworks for Flute, featuring flutist Zachary Valenzuela, accompanied by John Sawoski, recorded and edited in April 2009 by John Sawoski at John Sawoski Studio


The Impossible Dream, Sam McElroy, Baritone. John Sawoski, producer. Pre-recorded orchestra. Recorded at The Sawoski Music Group Studio.
Danny Boy, Sam McElroy, Baritone. John Sawoski, pianist/producer. Recorded at The Sawoski Music Group Studio.

Act Without Words – Music composed and played by John Sawoski. Contemporary classical piano piece commissioned by Perviz Sawoski
for a production of Samuel Beckett’s Act Without Words staged at Long Beach City College. Click here for script and more information.


Danny Boy for tenor and orchestra with tenor Dennis McNeil. John Sawoski, Orchestrator. Dennis McNeil, Tenor. Click here to rent the score and parts for your concert.

Is It Over? from The Count of Monte Cristo. Davis Gaines and Lisa Vroman, Vocalists. John Sawoski, Piano. For more information on The Count of Monte Cristo, click here
Angel of Vengeance clip fromThe Count of Monte Cristo. Davis Gaines, Vocalist. John Sawoski, Pianist. For more information on The Count of Monte Cristo, click here
John Sawoski, Pianist with Pops Orchestra. Click here for longer clip.

Solo Piano Background Music Clips


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Christmas Music – sent on Christmas postcards and via email list (Click here to sign up):

  • Pee-Wee Riding In A Train In New York On Christmas Eve When A Nuclear Bomb Explodes (Christmas 1997)
  • The Morning Light (Christmas 1998)
  • Jesus, Born for Us (Christmas 1999)
  • Cradle Song (Christmas 2000)