- John began musical training on string bass at age 8. Starting in classical music, he was recruited in middle school to play electric bass in jazz and rock bands. As a bass player there were opporunities to play in many genres - rockabilly, new wave, alternative, folk rock, blues, and musical theater.
John majored in Computer Science at MIT, worked as a Macintosh software engineer on Digital Performer for MOTU, and got a Harvard MBA. The Silicon Valley startup scene led to a stint at Google in its early days. All this time, he played in bands at night and dove deeper into musical theory and orchestration.
After Google John studied with choral composer David Conte and began training on piano, guitar, and vocals. John got started scoring short films, which led to independent features. In 2010 John and his wife Aliona moved to LA, and their son Aleksandr was born that fall. John is currently a student in USC's Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television class of 2012.
- The Cave Feature Documentary, 2011 - dir. Janet Tobias
- The Wine Cellar Short, Fall 2011 - dir. Kelby Wood
- Sati Shaves Her Head Short, Sunmner 2011 - dir. Tejal Shah
- Contractor's Routine - Trailer Trailer, Fall 2010 - dir. Yuri Tsapayev
- The Slap Short, Fall 2010 - dir. Jamie Campbell
- Tile M for Murder Short, Summer 2010 - dir. John Howard
- Pirates of the Produce Aisle Animated Short, Spring 2010 - dir. Lewis Taylor
- The Exit Short, Spring 2010 - dir. Keith Tonini
- Gnomes Animated Short, Spring 2010 - dir. Sarah Verrall
- Contractors Routine Feature, 2009 - dir. Yuri Tsapayev
- The Day Imprisoned 30-minute short, 2009 - dir. Bradley Tangonen
- Goodbye Mr. Jordan 30-minute short, 2009 - dir. Marc Stayman
- Dixie Dynamite Feature, 2009 - dir. Bob Clark
- Rule 1 Short - dir. Marc Stayman
- A Special Night Short - dir. Leopoldo Rivera
- Sudden Short - dir. Leopoldo Rivera
- Josh the Elf Short - dir. Sandeep Parikh
- Echoes of My Past Short - dir. Rohit Aurora
- Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television, USC Film Music Composition - Eric Schmidt
- European American Musical Alliance Counterpoint - Nathan Lane Keyboard Harmony - Narcis Bonet Orchestration - Michel Merlet
- San Francisco Conservatory Music Composition - David Conte Music Composition Seminar - David Garner Piano: Anna Marie McCarthy - San Francisco
- Berklee College of Music Film Scoring - Michael Rendish
- Harvard Business School Master of Business Adminsitration
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harmony & Counterpoint - Peter Child