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Alexander Janko. Composer: My Big Fat Greek Wedding. An award-winning filmmaker, Alexander Janko's creative repertoire spans the music, literary, stage, TV and film industries. Classically trained as a cellist, his first single "Omniscient Woman" won Billboard's Best Original Song competition in 1991.
Alexander Janko. Composer: My Big Fat Greek Wedding. An award-winning filmmaker, Alexander Janko's creative repertoire spans the music, literary, stage, TV and film industries. Classically trained as a cellist, his first single "Omniscient Woman" won Billboard's Best Original Song competition in 1991. After graduating Princeton, he moved to Hollywood where he proceeded to work on more than 65 major motion pictures. Tommy Boy (1995) launched his career as David Newman's orchestrator, including...
Sep 20, 2017 · Joan Anderson’s book A Year by the Sea starts: “The decision to separate seemed to happen overnight.”. Those words captivated Cressey Belden Janko ’91, who promptly brought the memoir home, where her then-husband Alexander “Xandy” Janko ’91, found the book on the kitchen table and read it in one afternoon.
Apr 15, 2014 · In 1995, he became the lead orchestrator for prolific film composer David Newman (of the well-known Newman musical dynasty), including the Oscar-nominated score for the 1997 animation hit Anastasia. Janko composed the music for Oren Safdie’s off-Broadway 2003 premiere of Private Jokes, Public Places. The libretto of his forthcoming first ...
Year by the Sea is a 2016 American independent comedy-drama film starring Karen Allen, Yannick Bisson, S. Epatha Merkerson, Michael Cristofer, and Celia Imrie. It was written, directed and scored by composer Alexander Janko in his directorial debut.
Alexander Janko, the composer of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, was so inspired by Joan Anderson’s memoir, Year by the Sea, that he set out to adapt the book for the big screen. As a first-time director, he had a lot to learn, but after years of obstacles, he’s now set to premiere the movie Friday, Sept. 8 at the Lincoln Plaza Cinema and Landmark Sunshine.
Aug 28, 2017 · Alexander “Xandy” Janko participated in YMM’s Orchestras in the early 1980s. An outstanding talent, he has pursued a career in the arts. He wrote the score for the blockbuster “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” in 2002, which rapidly became the highest grossing romantic comedy in history. His most recent project includes writing the screenplay for “A Year by the Sea” , based on the bestselling stories by author Joan Anderson. Since arriving in Hollywood in 1991, after completing a ...
