Michael Amante, The Big Bang, Jerry Lewis

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Sept. 16, 2004

September 2004:

Friday, September 17 (Mission San Juan Capistrano, CA) – John Sawoski will play keyboards with a small orchestra of top LA session musicians in a concert with tenor Michael Amante at the Great Stone Church, followed by dinner in the mission courtyard. Hosted by the Laguna Niguel Ritz Carlton. $200.00 per person for concert and dinner. Benefits Mission Preservation. Call or click here for tickets and more information. (949) 493-4244.

Michael Amante is the American tenor who can sing it all. Whether commanding the heroic volleys of Puccini’s “Nessun dorma” or melting the tender phrases of “O Sole Mio”, Amante rewrites the book on anybody’s idea of what a tenor can be. The New York Times declared that this “swashbuckling Italian tenor exhibits both the voice and charisma of a crossover star,” and Tony Bennett has hailed him as “the new Mario Lanza.” Throw in some Jon Bon Jovi, too. Movie-star handsome and charming, Michael Amante combines an operatic tenor’s debonair, old-world finesse with the sheer adrenalin rush he discovered as a teenager, when his tenor voice first made itself known soaring over the sound of metal bands in rock clubs.

November 2004:

Thursday, November 4 through Saturday, November 13 – John Sawoski will play piano and music direct for “The Big Bang,” a new musical comedy, at Norris Center for the Performing Arts. Starring Paul Kreppel & Larry Raben. [Click here to read the Los Angeles Times Review of this show.]

Recent News:

Jerry Lewis Telethon Appearance 

Click above to see a video clip of John Sawoski’s appearance as pianist/arranger/orchestrator/musical director on this past Labor Day’s Jerry Lewis Telethon, playing piano and conducting The Leading Ladies and the orchestra, consisting of top LA session players like Rick Baptist, Ken Wild, Larry White, Gene Cipriano, Sal Lozano, Albie Berk, and many more, in a medley of songs from musical theatre and Phantom of the Opera.