John Kaefer

John Kaefer (born October 1, 1976) is a composer for film, television, and the concert stage.

Education Kaefer is a doctoral graduate of The Juilliard School and also earned degrees in composition from Yale University (MM) and the Eastman School of Music (BM).

Career Kaefer began his professional television music career during his time at The Juilliard School, where he composed the music for the TV mini-series Dance School: Juilliard. He then went on to compose the scores for several short films, including To Kill A Bore (2006) and They Say It's Wonderful (2006), and In Pursuit of Woody Allen (2007). In 2007, he provided additional music for another short, Room Service, as well as for his first feature film, Mama's Boy. He also began working on ABC's Good Morning America, co-composing the theme music and the rest of the score until 2012. Kaefer also co-composed the music for Good Morning America Weekend Edition.

In 2013, Kaefer provided the theme music for Primetime: Would You Fall for That?. He also scored his first documentary, A Polite Bribe. In 2014, Kaefer worked on the series, Sequestered, the first season of which aired on the Crackle network. He composed the music for his second documentary by Robert Orlando, Silence Patton, the following year in 2015. He composed the music for the Fullscreen series, Making Moves, which will be released on April 26, 2016, and he also composed the theme music for The Kidnapping of a Fish, a short set to release later in 2016.

Concert Music As a composer for the concert stage, Kaefer's music has been programmed by The Pacific Symphony, Eighth Blackbird, the Aspen Music Festival Contemporary Ensemble, The Juilliard Orchestra, Symphony In C (Haddonfield Symphony), The New York Youth Symphony, the Chamber Symphony of New Jersey and The Yale Philharmonia.

Kaefer has led performances at venues including Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, and La Schola Cantorum in Paris.

Awards In 2000, Kaefer was recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Charles Ives Scholarship. The following year, he received the Morton Gould Composer Award from the ASCAP Foundation.

Kaefer received the BMI foundation's Student Composer Award in 2002 and the Pete Carpenter Fellowship in 2006. He was also a panelist/advisor to Mike Post for the Pete Carpenter Fellowship from 2007 to 2010.

Filmography

Film Stoic FilmsComposerRoom Service (short)Kevin CastroEmmett/Furla/Oasis Films Valhalla Motion PicturesComposerMama's BoyTim HamiltonWarner Bros. That Storm FilmsTheme music

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