John Swihart

John Swihart is an American musical composer for film and television. He is perhaps best known for his score to Napoleon Dynamite,[1] Youth in Revolt,[2] Employee of the Month,[3] and his music for the TV shows How I Met Your Mother,[4] and Go On.[5]

John Swihart
OccupationComposer
Websitehttp://www.johnswihart.com

John Swihart was raised in Bloomington, Indiana, the son of a physicist based at Indiana University. He spent a portion of his formative years in Europe and Asia, where his father would sabbatical.

John had some musical training at a very young age but was not deeply absorbed by music until he was about eight. Swihart would leave Indiana to attend Berklee College of Music, in Boston.

Swihart played Chapman Stick, Bass, Guitar and Zither in the Boston, New York and Las Vegas Blue Man Group shows, on his way to Los Angeles. His breakout film project Napoleon Dynamite premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004.[6]

Works

2000s
Year Title Director Notes
2002 When Boys Fly
  • Stewart Halpern-Fingerhut
  • Lenid Rolov
 N/A
2002 Bedford Springs Marc Berlin N/A
2004 Napoleon Dynamite Jared Hess N/A
2004 Purgatory House Cindy Baer N/A
2004 The Least Likely Candidate Will Hartman N/A
2005 The Great New Wonderful Danny Leiner N/A
2005 Mall Cop David Greenspan N/A
2005 Life on the Ledge Lewis Helfer N/A
2005 Our Very Own Cameron Watson N/A
2005 Nadine in Date Land Amie Steir Television film
2005 Daltry Calhoun Katrina Holden Bronson N/A
2006 One Last Dance Max Makowski N/A
2006 The Sasquatch Gang Tim Skousen N/A
2006 Champions David Wike N/A
2006 Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas Scott Lew N/A
2006 Think Tank Brian Petersen N/A
2006 5up 2down Steven Kessler N/A
2006 Employee of the Month Greg Coolidge N/A
2007 Full of It Christian Charles N/A
2007 The Hammer Charles Herman-Wurmfeld N/A
2007 The Education of Charlie Banks Fred Durst N/A
2007 The Brothers Solomon Bob Odenkirk N/A
2007 Randy and the Mob Ray McKinnon N/A
2007 South of Pico Ernst Gossner N/A
2008 The Last Word Geoffrey Haley N/A
2008 The Year of Getting to Know Us Patrick Sisam N/A
2008 Just Add Water Hart Bochner N/A
2008 Garden Party Jason Freeland N/A
2008 HottieBoombaLottie Seth Packard N/A
2009 Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach Danny Leiner N/A
2009 Spread David Mackenzie N/A
2009 Finding Bliss Julie Davis N/A
2009 New in Town Jonas Elmer N/A
2009 Youth in Revolt Miguel Arteta N/A
2009 The Other Woman Don Roos N/A
2009 Splinterheads Brant Sersen N/A
2009 The Strip Jameel Khan N/A
2009 Operating Instructions Andy Tennant Television film

2010s
Year Title Director Notes
2010 The Perfect Host Nick Tomnay N/A
2010 Hey Watch This Christian Charles N/A
2011 Flypaper Rob Minkoff N/A
2011 Losing Control Valerie Weiss N/A
2011 Lucky Gil Cates Jr. N/A
2012 For a Good Time, Call... Jamie Travis N/A
2012 Love Sick Love Christian Charles N/A
2013 Odd Thomas Stephen Sommers N/A
2014 The Young Kieslowski Kerem Sanga N/A
2014 As Night Comes Richard Zelniker N/A
2015 Accidental Love Stephen Greene N/A
2015 Staten Island Summer Rhys Thomas N/A
2015 A Light Beneath Their Feet Valerie Weiss N/A
2016 First Girl I Loved Kerem Sanga N/A
2017 Table 19 Jeffrey Blitz N/A
2017 A Symphony of Hope Brian Weidling N/A
2017 Angry Angel Jamie Travis Television film
2018 Ideal Home Andrew Fleming Composed with Martin Simpson
2018 Haunting on Fraternity Row Brant Sersen N/A
2019 The Fanatic Fred Dunst N/A
2019 The Fan Connection Mary Wall N/A
2019 The Turkey Bowl Greg Coolidge N/A

2020s
Year Title Director Notes
2020 Dinner in America Adam Rehmeier N/A
2020 The Bay of Silence Paula van der Oest N/A

Television series
Year Title Notes
2004 The Drive N/A
2005 Home Blitz N/A
2005–2014 How I Met Your Mother N/A
2006 Trick My Truck N/A
2006 Shorty McShorts' Shorts Episode: "My Mom Married a Yeti"
2007 Trick My Trucker N/A
2007–2011 Greek' N/A
2008 Fear Itself Episode: "Community"
2008 Ski Patrol 2 episodes
2008 Ski Patrol 2 episodes
2009–2010 Accidentally on Purpose N/A
2010 Sons of Tucson N/A
2010–2011 Backwash N/A
2011 Mad Love N/A
2011 Pretty Tough N/A
2011–2012 How to Be a Gentleman N/A
2011–2015 Web Therapy N/A
2011–2016 Switched at Birth N/A
2012 The Booth at the End N/A
2012–2013 Go On N/A
2012–2014 Men at Work N/A
2013 The Goodwin Games N/A
2013 We Are Men N/A
2014 Cristela N/A
2014 Cristela N/A
2014–2015 Red Band Society N/A
2016 The Great Indoors N/A
2017–2018 Trial & Error N/A
2018 Break a Hip N/A
2018 American Woman Composed with Michael Suby

Video game
Year Title Notes
2019 Far Cry New Dawn Composed with Tyler Bates

Awards and nominations
  • Golden Satellite Award (2004) for best original score (Napoleon Dynamite)
  • Grammy Nomination (2006) for best compilation soundtrack album for motion picture, television or other visual media (Napoleon Dynamite)

References
  1. "IMDB page for Napoleon Dynamite". Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  2. "IMDB Page for Youth in Revolt". Retrieved 9 October 2012.
  3. "IMDB page for Employee of the Month". Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  4. "IMDB page for How I Met Your Mother". Retrieved 8 October 2012.
  5. "IMDB Page for Go On".
  6. "Bio page from John Swiharts website". Archived from the original on 7 March 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
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