John Swihart is an American musical composer for film and television.

He is perhaps best known for his score to Napoleon Dynamite,[1] Youth in Revolt,[2] Employee of the Month,[3] and his music for the TV shows How I Met Your Mother,[4] and Go On.

He spent a portion of his formative years in Europe and Asia, where his father would sabbatical.

Swihart would leave Indiana to attend Berklee College of Music, in Boston.

[6] Swihart played Chapman Stick, Bass, Guitar and Zither in the Boston, New York and Las Vegas Blue Man Group shows, on his way to Los Angeles.