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John Swihart

John Swihart

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John Swihart (born 1964) is an American musical composer for film and television. Some of his best known scores include the films Napoleon Dynamite (2004), Employee of the Month (2006), Youth in Revolt (2009), and television shows How I Met Your Mother (2005 - 2014), and Go On (2012 - 2013). Swihart was raised in Bloomington, Indiana, the adopted son of a physicist based at Indiana University. He attended Berklee College of Music, in Boston, graduating in 1986. Prior to becoming a film and television composer, he performed in shows as a multi-instrumentalist for the Blue Man Group.

Participates in

  • The Brothers Solomon
  • The Year of Getting to Know Us
  • Employee of the Month
  • New in Town
  • Inheritance
  • Daltry Calhoun
  • As Night Comes
  • Finding Bliss
  • The Young Kieslowski
  • Our Very Own
  • Out There
  • Staten Island Summer
  • Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach
  • Garden Party
  • For a Good Time, Call...
  • Glazed
  • Full of It
  • On Location Napoleon Dynamite
  • Odd Thomas
  • Bye Bye Benjamin
  • Randy & the Mob
  • Cheech & Chong's Hey Watch This
  • The Perfect Host
  • Table 19
  • The Other Zoey
  • Accidental Love
  • The Last Word
  • Napoleon Dynamite
  • Spread
  • Youth in Revolt
  • Just Add Water
  • Flypaper
  • The Other Woman
  • The Education of Charlie Banks
  • First Girl I Loved
  • The Sasquatch Gang
  • One Last Dance
  • The Fanatic
  • Dinner in America
  • The Violent Heart
  • Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas
  • Lucky
  • Haunting on Fraternity Row
  • Ideal Home
  • Bedford Springs