John Swihart
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John Swihart

Mt. Kisco, New York, USA
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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.

Known for

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