John DiSanto

John DiSanto is a graduate of the Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts and New Jersey City University with a Masters in multiple woodwind performance.  He plays all the members of the saxophone, clarinet and flute families as well as the bassoon.  He is an active freelance woodwind artist in the New York area, currently playing the reed 3 chair on Disney’s Aladdin.  John has also played the reed 2 chair on the Broadway shows “The Prom” and “Caroline or Change”.  He has performed as a substitute musician on over 30 Broadway shows, held the reed 6 chair in Radio City Music Hall's Christmas Spectacular orchestra, the reed 2 on the off Broadway show “Kid Victory” and reed 2 on the off Broadway show “The Unsinkable Molly Brown”.  John has been a member of the Swingadelic big band since 2010, you can hear him on the band’s recent album release “Bluesville”.  John has recorded with Charlie Rosen’s 8-Bit Big Band, the Broadway cast recordings of “The Prom”, “Caroline or Change” as well as the off Broadway cast recording of “Kid Victory”.  John has performed with the New Jersey Symphony, Princeton Symphony, Queens Symphony and New Jersey Festival Orchestra.  He has also appeared with the Ron Aprea Big Band featuring Lew Tabackin at Birdland Jazz club.  He currently resides in New Jersey with his daughter Charlotte and wife Wendy.