John Bisharat is a Palestinian-American composer and conductor, who has composed, arranged and conducted music for numerous film and television productions.

Bisharat was born in 1964 in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, California

California

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, and grew up playing the piano

Piano

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, cello

Cello

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, and bass

Double bass

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. In 1986, he graduated from UCLA's Professional Designation in Film Scoring program.

Bisharat has conducted various symphonies across the United States

United States

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, including the National Symphony Orchestra, the Colorado Symphony Orchestra

Colorado Symphony Orchestra

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, and the Kansas City Symphony

Kansas City Symphony

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. Outside of the United States

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, he has conducted the London Symphony Orchestra

London Symphony Orchestra

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.

Bisharat has also worked on numerous musical scores for films, including the 2006 Omar Sharif

Omar Sharif

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 film One Night With the King and the 2004 short film The Trumpeter. He recently composed the score for the forthcoming film Magdalena: Released from Shame (2008).