John Kaefer was born on October 1,1976 and is a composer for film, television, and the concert stage.
17 Facts About John Kaefer
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John 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.
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John Kaefer then went on to compose the scores for several short films, including To Kill A Bore and They Say It's Wonderful, and In Pursuit of Woody Allen.
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John Kaefer began working on ABC's Good Morning America, co-composing the theme music and the rest of the score until 2012.
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John Kaefer co-composed the music for Good Morning America Weekend Edition.
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In 2009, John Kaefer composed for another short film, Forget Me Not, and contributed the theme music for Focus Earth with Bob Woodruff.
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In 2010, John Kaefer composed his second full-length film score for the crime-drama The Rise and Fall of Their American Dream and for another short, Lily of the Feast.
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John Kaefer was credited as music programmer and orchestrator for the film One Fall in 2011.
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In 2012, John Kaefer composed for another short, Pandora's Box, and ended his time with Good Morning America and Good Morning America Weekend Edition.
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In 2014, John Kaefer worked on the series, Sequestered, the first season of which aired on the Crackle network.
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John Kaefer composed the music for his second documentary by Robert Orlando, Silence Patton, the following year in 2015.
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John Kaefer worked on the score for the live-action sequences of Quantum Break, a third-person shooter action game released for the Xbox One on April 5,2016.
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John Kaefer composed the music for the Fullscreen series, Making Moves, which will be released on April 26,2016, and he composed the theme music for The Kidnapping of a Fish, a short set to release later in 2016.
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John 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.
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In 2000, John Kaefer was recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Charles Ives Scholarship.
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John Kaefer received the BMI foundation's Student Composer Award in 2002 and the Pete Carpenter Fellowship in 2006.
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John Kaefer has been a guest composer and instructor in the American Composers Orchestra, Film Music Factory Program and is a member and mentor for the Society of Composers and Lyricists.