John Kaefer | Selected Credits
Recent Music for TV/Selected Listing
- 20/20 (ABC; Theme Music/Package. Co-composer)
- Good Morning America (ABC; Theme Package. Co-composer)
- Focus Earth With Bob Woodruff (Discovery/ABC; Theme Music Package. Co-composer)
- Portraits (Ebru TV; Theme Music/Score. Composer)
- Matter and Beyond (Ebru TV; Theme Music/Score. Composer)
- Music Cues featured in popular TV series on CBS, NBC, Fox, ABC, Bravo, TBS, The Discovery Channel, The Documentary Channel, MTV, TNT, Comedy Central, AMC, among many others. For a complete listing, please contact the composer.
- Commercial Music work for LG (“Spy”, National Ad Campaign), ABC (“Positively ABC News”, News Branding Campaign), Pfizer (“Chantix”, National Ad Campaign), IBM (“Smart Planet”, Corporate Promotion), Marriott (National Ad Campaign), Curves Gym (“Curve Smart”, National Ad Campaign), among many others.
Recent Music for FILM/Selected Listing
- Lily Of The Feast (Starring Paul Sorvino/Directed by Federico Castelluccio. Composer)
- Mama’s Boy (Warner Brothers Pictures/Starring Diane Keaton. Additional music)
- Dance School: Juilliard (3-Part Documentary/Eye Opener Productions. Co-composer)
- Room Service (Starring Howie Mandel. Additional music/Orchestration)
- Forget Me Not (Directed by Federico Castelluccio. Composer)
- The Rise And Fall Of Their American Dream (Directed by Nash Bhatt. Composer)
- They Say Its Wonderful (Slade Productions. Composer)
- To Kill A Bore (Sunuh Schultz Productions. Co-composer)
Recent Music for the CONCERT STAGE/Selected Listing
- MOSAIC (for large orchestra/12 min)
- Revolutions Per Minute (for large orchestra/20 min)
- FRACTURE (for large orchestra/4 min)
- Paths Of Movement (for violin and piano/15 min)
- Time Capsule I (for solo piano/10 min)
- Concerto for Viola and Chamber Orchestra (15 min)
- Silhouettes (for flute, violin, and viola/18 min)
- THANATOS (for percussion quartet/4 min)
Selected AWARDS/HONORS in Composition
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Charles Ives Scholarship)
- The Pacific Symphony Orchestra (American Composers Competition Winner/Guest Composer)
- The Barlow Endowment for Music (Barlow Prize, Honorable Mention/Runner-up)
- BMI Foundation (Pete Carpenter Fellowship)
- The American Composers Orchestra (Guest Instructor/Advisor; Film Music Factory)
- Meet The Composer (Creative Connection Grant)
- The Haddonfield Symphony (Guest Composer)
- New York Youth Symphony (First Music Award and Commission)
- ASCAP Foundation (Morton Gould Young Composer Awards)
- BMI Foundation (BMI Student Composer Awards)
- Yaddo Arts Colony (Residency Fellowship)
- Norfolk Chamber Music Festival (Compositional Fellow)
Education
- The Juilliard School; Doctor Of Musical Arts in Composition (C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow; Cartwright Scholarship; Henry Mancini Fellowship)
- Yale University; Master Of Music in Composition (John D. Jackson Scholar)
- Eastman School Of Music; Bachelor Of Music in Composition (George Eastman Scholar)
Additional Studies at the Aspen Music Festival, the Oregon Bach Festival, and La Schola Cantorum in Paris, among others. Studied with Pulitzer Prize winning composers Christopher Rouse, Joseph Schwantner, and David Del Tredici, as well as with Robert Beaser, Augusta Read Thomas, and American Romantic composer David Diamond.