Jones stated: "I am at once astounded and inspired by the enormous talent that Emily embodies the ability to seamlessly move from Classical to Jazz and Be-bop." Bear returned to Carnegie Hall at the end of the year. Later in 2011, she appeared with him at the Hollywood Bowl, where she played a medley of her own arrangement, "Bumble Boogie" and accompanied "Miss Celie's Blues", from The Color Purple, sung by Gloria Estefan, Patti Austin, Siedah Garrett and Nikki Yanofsky. He presented Bear at the 45th Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and the Festival Castell at the Peralada Castle in Spain, where she performed her original song, "Peralada", and a trio with Esperanza Spalding and Andrea Motis. The same year, she began working with Quincy Jones. In 2011, at the 3rd PTTOW! Youth Media and Innovation Summit in California addressed by the Dalai Lama, Bear performed her song "Diversity", which she had written in honor of the Dalai Lama. The same year, she performed on the television show Dancing with the Stars. In 2010, Bear made her Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 9, playing her own piece for orchestra and chorus, "Peace: We Are the Future". She has expressed a strong interest in film scoring, and in 2013 she was the youngest composer in history to attend the NYU Steinhardt Film Scoring Workshop.Ĭareer 2010 to 2012 Carnegie Hall debut and festival performances She studies jazz improvisation with Frank Kimbrough and composing with Ron Sadoff, head of NYU Steinhardt film scoring department. By the age of eight, she had composed more than 350 pieces.įrom the age of six, Bear studied classical piano with the former principal keyboardist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Mary Sauer, and also has studied with Veda Kaplinsky, head of the piano department at the Juilliard School. She also participated that year at the McDonald's Thanksgiving Parade in Chicago and performed the next year on Good Morning America. She performed the same piece later in 2008 with the Rockford Symphony Orchestra. 23 with the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra at the age of 7. Bush, at the age of six, and performed Mozart's Piano Concerto No. She played in 2008 at the White House for President George W. She also won the Rockford Area Music Industry Outstanding Achievement Award (RAMI) that year.Īs a small child, Bear made six appearances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. At age six, in 2008, she won her first ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award for her piece "Northern Lights", the youngest composer ever to win the award. Soon she was enrolled at the Winnetka campus to study classical music. She made her professional piano debut at the Ravinia Festival at age five, the youngest performer to play there. Hal Leonard Music has been publishing Bear's original compositions since she was 4 years old. The next year, Bear began to study with Emilio del Rosario at the Music Institute of Chicago. By age three, she had composed her first song, "Crystal Ice". When Bear was two years old, her grandmother Merle Langs Greenberg, a piano teacher, recognized her talent at the piano. After being home-schooled for a few years, Bear enrolled in Guilford High School in Rockford in 2015, graduating at age 15 in 2017. Her mother has sung professionally and has a music education degree. Later in 2017, Bear became the youngest performer in the history of the Night of the Proms tour.īear was born and raised in Rockford, Illinois, the youngest of three children of Brian, an orthopedic surgeon, and Andrea Bear. She leads her own jazz trio, with which she recorded an EP, Into the Blue, released in 2017. She composes and plays both classical and jazz music, studies film scoring and is heard on the 2015 Broadway cast recording of the musical Doctor Zhivago. In 2013, Bear released her first studio album, Diversity, containing her own jazz compositions, produced by her mentor, Quincy Jones. She has also won two Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers Awards. She has won two Morton Gould Young Composer Awards and was the youngest person ever to win the award. She has since played her own compositions and other works with orchestras and ensembles in North America, Europe and Asia, including appearances at Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, the Montreux Jazz Festival and Jazz Open Stuttgart. She gained wider notice from a series of appearances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show beginning at the age of six. After beginning to play the piano and compose music as a small child, Bear made her professional piano debut at the Ravinia Festival at the age of five, the youngest performer ever to play there. Emily Jordan Bear (born August 30, 2001) is an American composer, pianist, songwriter and singer who has received notice at an early age.
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