Award-winning composer<a href="http://www.visualmusicartists.com.index2.html”> John Swihart, whose career is on a stellar trajectory since scoring “Napoleon Dynamite” five years ago, has scored the first in a series of “Emotional Storytelling” spots for The Mayo Clinic via <a href="http://www.visualmusicartists.com.index.html”>Visual Music.
“Wendy” tells the amazing story of a cancer survivor and how her life was saved by the doctors and staff of The Mayo Clinic. <a href="http://www.visualmusicartists.com.index.html”>Visual Music creative director <a href="http://www.visualmusicartists.com.bio.html”>Tom Seufert oversaw music for the project which originated at The Richards Group/Dallas with Kevin Swisher (Group Copywriter), Mark McKenzie (Art Director) and was produced by the Head of Broadcast Production Greg Gibson.
John Swihart began his musical training at the age of four studying piano; by eight, he added the saxophone, followed by guitar studies at Indiana University — while still in high school. He then continued his formal musical training of composition, production and engineering at Boston’s prestigious’ Berklee College of Music.
After college, Swihart toured with a variety of bands and performed in musical theater in Boston, New York and Los Angeles; simultaneously, he composed for Boston advertising clients and scored student films for Emerson undergrads. When Blue Man Group opened a Vegas show, Swihart was recruited to be a musician in the Grammy nominated ensemble. A year later, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue film composing. His fifth film score as a composer was Napoleon Dynamite and he has since scored over 40 films.<a href="http://www.visualmusicartists.com.index2.html”> John Swihart‘s other film & TV credits include “Youth in Revolt” (starring Michael Cera), “New in Town” (starring Rene Zellweger), “Employee of the Month,” “How I Met Your Mother” and “Greek.” Via <a href="http://www.visualmusicartists.com.index.html”>Visual Music, Swihart has scored national campaigns for Farmers Insurance, The Home Depot, Scrubbing Bubbles, The Salvation Army and MD Anderson.
Credits
CLIENT: The Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
SPOT: Wendy
AGENCY: The Richards Group Dallas
Kevin Swisher (Group Copywriter)
Mark McKenzie (Art Director)
Head of Broadcast Production Greg Gibson
DIRECTOR: Jeff Bednarz
PROD CO: Directorz
EDITORIAL: N20
EDITOR: Scott Hanson
MUSIC HOUSE: <a href="http://www.visualmusicartists.com.index.html”>Visual Music
Creative Director/Exec Prod: <a href="http://www.visualmusicartists.com.bio.html”>Tom Seufert
Composer:<a href="http://www.visualmusicartists.com.index2.html”> John Swihart
About <a href="http://www.visualmusicartists.com.index.html”>Visual Music
<a href="http://www.visualmusicartists.com.index.html”>Visual Music is a boutique music house and business-to-business record label encompassing an extraordinary group of star composers, new emerging artists and award winning composers, songwriters and sound designers.
<a href="http://www.visualmusicartists.com.index.html”>Visual Music‘s mission is to deliver inspired creative innovation to clients by exploring diverse musical possibilities within <a href="http://www.visualmusicartists.com.index.html”>Visual Music‘s roster. <a href="http://www.visualmusicartists.com.index.html”>Visual Music‘s creative director/executive producer <a href="http://www.visualmusicartists.com.bio.html”>Tom Seufert has written for one of the Beatles (Ringo), co-written with Glen Frey (The Eagles) and Trevor Rabin (Yes) and written/produced songs and underscores for television, film and more than 1500 TV commercials, interactive games and web sites.
Recently added composers include <a href="http://www.visualmusicartists.com.biobear.html”>Bear McCreary from the hit sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica and The Walking Dead, Gossip Girl’s “composer collective” <a href="http://www.visualmusicartists.com.indextranscenders.html”>Transcenders (founding members of The Black Eyed Peas) and hot new bands like KCRW discovery <a href="http://www.visualmusicartists.com.indexbigmoves.html”>Big Moves join a select group of "rising musical stars" who are passionate and dedicated to their craft. For more info on <a href="http://www.visualmusicartists.com.index.html”>Visual Music please visit www.visualmusicartists.com.
