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". Career 2010 to 2012: Carnegie Hall debut and festival performances She 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. She studied jazz improvisation with Frank Kimbrough and composing with Ron Sadoff, head of NYU Steinhardt film scoring department. įrom the age of six, Bear studied classical piano with the former principal keyboardist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Mary Sauer, and later with Veda Kaplinsky, head of the piano department at the Juilliard School. By the age of eight, Bear had composed more than 350 pieces, and between 20, she released five albums of her piano music. 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 seven. 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. Īs a small child, Bear made six appearances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. She also won the Rockford Area Music Industry Outstanding Achievement Award (RAMI) that year. 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. She was listed on Forbes ' 2022 30 Under 30.īear was born and raised in Rockford, Illinois, the youngest of three children of Brian, an orthopedic surgeon, and Andrea Bear. In 2021, she and Abigail Barlow co-wrote and released an album inspired by the Netflix series Bridgerton, titled The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical, which won the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album Bear is the youngest Grammy nominee and youngest winner in the musical theater category. Her 2019 EP Emotions was her first to feature Bear singing her own songs. Later that year, Bear became the youngest performer in the history of the Night of the Proms tour. With her own jazz trio, she released an EP, Into the Blue, in 2017. She composes and plays classical, jazz and pop music, film and TV scores, and is heard on the 2015 Broadway cast recording of the musical Doctor Zhivago. In 2013, Bear released an album of her own jazz compositions, Diversity, produced by her mentor, Quincy Jones. She won two Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, the youngest person ever to win the award, and also won two Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers Awards. 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.
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