John Bucchino's songs have been performed and recorded by renowned pop

(Art Garfunkel, Judy Collins), theatre (Liza Minnelli, Patti LuPone, Kristin

Chenoweth, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDonald), cabaret (Barbara Cook,

Michael Feinstein), and classical (Yo-Yo Ma, Deborah Voight, Nathan Gunn),

artists as well as The Boston Pops, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the

Mormon Tabernacle Choir in venues including Carnegie Hall, The Metropolitan

Opera, The Hollywood Bowl, The Kennedy Center, The Sydney Opera House,

London’s O2 Arena and The White House.

Among his honors are two Drama Desk nominations, The Johnny Mercer

Songwriter Award, The ASCAP Foundation Richard Rodgers New Horizons

Award, The Jonathan Larson Award, The Kleban Award, The Los Angeles

Ovation Award (for the revue IT’S ONLY LIFE), The DVD Premiere Award (for

the song “Better Than I”), and the first annual Fred Ebb Award.

He has written music and lyrics for the Broadway musical A CATERED AFFAIR

with a book by Harvey Fierstein (nominated for 12 Drama Desk Awards, 3

Tony awards, and winner of the New York Drama League Award for Best

Musical), as well as the musicals URBAN MYTHS, LAVENDER GIRL, the new

Danish musical ESAURA, the revue IT’S ONLY LIFE, and the Dreamworks

animated film JOSEPH, KING OF DREAMS, and the lyrics for the children’s

musical SIMEON’S GIFT with a book by Julie Andrews and Emma Walton

Hamilton and music by Ian Fraser. Some recordings of his work are:

GRATEFUL, THE SONGS OF JOHN BUCCHINO (with companion songbook),

SOLITUDE LESSONS, the Australian release DAVID CAMPBELL SINGS JOHN

BUCCHINO which reached number one on the Australian jazz chart, the PS

Classics releases of the cast albums of IT’S ONLY LIFE (with companion

songbook) and A CATERED AFFAIR, and two recordings of solo piano

improvisations: ON RICHARD RODGERS’ PIANO (performed on the composer’s

own Steinway, voted Best Instrumental CD by Show Business Weekly), and

BEATLES REIMAGINED. As part of their Julie Andrews Collection, Harper Collins

published a children's book, based on John’s song, called “Grateful, A Song of

Giving Thanks” which was awarded the Parents’ Choice Gold Award.

For more information, and to purchase CDs, songbooks or download sheet

music or accompaniment tracks, please visit www.johnbucchino.com

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