1. Emily Jordan Bear was born on August 30,2001 and is an American composer, pianist, songwriter and singer.
58 Facts About Emily Bear
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Emily Bear gained wider notice from a series of appearances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show beginning at the age of six.
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Emily Bear 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.
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Emily Bear won two Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, the youngest person ever to win the award, and won two Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composers Awards.
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In 2013, Emily Bear released an album of her own jazz compositions, Diversity, produced by her mentor and manager, Quincy Jones.
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Emily Bear 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.
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Emily Bear was the youngest performer in the history of the Night of the Proms tour.
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In mid-2023, Emily Bear toured as the featured pianist for Beyonce's Renaissance World Tour.
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Barlow and Emily Bear wrote songs for the Disney film Moana 2.
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Emily Bear was born and raised in Rockford, Illinois, the youngest of three children of Brian, an orthopedic surgeon, and Andrea Emily Bear.
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Emily Bear's mother has sung professionally and has a music education degree.
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When Emily Bear was two years old, her grandmother Merle Langs Greenberg, a piano teacher, recognized her talent at the piano.
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The next year, Emily Bear began to study with Emilio del Rosario at the Music Institute of Chicago.
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Emily Bear made her professional piano debut at the Ravinia Festival at age five, the youngest performer to play there.
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Emily Bear won the Rockford Area Music Industry Outstanding Achievement Award that year.
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Emily Bear played in 2008 at the White House for President George W Bush, at the age of six, and performed Mozart's Piano Concerto No 23 with the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra at the age of seven.
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Emily Bear performed the same piece later in 2008 with the Rockford Symphony Orchestra.
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Emily Bear participated that year at the McDonald's Thanksgiving Parade in Chicago and performed the next year on Good Morning America.
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Emily Bear studied jazz improvisation with Frank Kimbrough and composing with Ron Sadoff, head of NYU Steinhardt film scoring department.
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Emily Bear 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.
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In 2010, Emily Bear made her Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 9, playing her own piece for orchestra and chorus, "Peace: We Are the Future".
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Emily Bear 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.
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Emily Bear performed at the Life Ball 2012 gala in Vienna, Austria, to benefit the charity AIDS Life.
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Emily Bear returned to perform with the same orchestra two years later.
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In 2013, Emily Bear released Diversity, an album of original jazz compositions, on the Concord Records label, with bassist Carlitos del Puerto, drummer Francisco Mela and cellist Zuill Bailey, led by Emily Bear at the piano.
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Emily Bear can improvise smartly, shift between genres, tempos and dispositions effortlessly, elevate a melody.
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Emily Bear composed the music for a national ad campaign for Weight Watchers, called "Simple Start".
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Emily Bear performed in 2014 on The Queen Latifah Show, accompanying herself at the piano and singing "The Girl from Ipanema".
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In concerts and on broadcasts, Emily Bear has demonstrated her ability to compose musical stories and mood music improvisationally upon request.
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Since 2014, Bear has led the Emily Bear Trio, consisting of Bear, bassist Peter Slavov and drummer Mark McLean.
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In 2015, Emily Bear won another ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award for her orchestral piece "Les Voyages".
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Emily Bear appears on the 2015 Broadway Cast Recording of the musical Doctor Zhivago playing a solo piano version of "He's There".
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Emily Bear ended the year with her debut at Joe's Pub in New York City.
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In 2016, for the opening charity gala of the "Play Me, I'm Yours" street piano event in Mesa, Arizona, Emily Bear re-orchestrated "The Bravest Journey" for 25 pianos.
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Also in 2016, Emily Bear returned to Rockford Symphony to play "Les Voyages" and Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor.
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On January 27,2017, Emily Bear released a jazz EP, Into the Blue, with her trio, on her independent label, Edston Records.
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Emily Bear noted that "Araingnee", is adapted from Bear's soundtrack for an animated film about two spiders competing to create increasingly elaborate webs inspired by famous works of art.
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In January 2017, Emily Bear performed three of her pieces at Valley Performing Arts Center near Los Angeles, California, in a concert benefit for Save a Child's Heart, an Israel-based international humanitarian organization that provides lifesaving heart surgery for children in developing countries.
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In November 2017, Emily Bear performed the piano score to The Cat Concerto live at the Hollywood Bowl, accompanying screenings of the 1947 Tom and Jerry short.
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From late November to December, Emily Bear performed at Night of the Proms 2017, a 25-concert arena tour in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.
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Emily Bear was the youngest artist ever to appear at Night of the Proms.
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Emily Bear was a 2018 recipient of Illinois' Order of Lincoln Award, the state's highest honor for professional achievement and public service.
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In May, Emily Bear returned to the Hollywood Bowl to play two performances of the Freddy Martin piano and orchestra arrangement of "Bumble Boogie" live to the segment of the same name in the 1948 Disney film Melody Time as part of an evening that featured a live concert of the Beauty and the Beast soundtrack.
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In June, Emily Bear received a 2018 Abe Olman Scholarship at the Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards in New York City.
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In February 2019, Emily Bear played with the World Doctors Orchestra in Israel to benefit Save a Child's Heart and sang together with Ester Rada.
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Emily Bear composed and sang "More than Just a Girl" and "Daylight", two songs in the film Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase.
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Emily Bear played the piano on the score for another 2019 film, A Dog's Journey.
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Emily Bear released an EP of pop songs, Emotions, in October 2019.
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Emily Bear performed several concerts beginning in August 2019 and released the album's title track, "Emotions", in September.
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Emily Bear orchestrated and produced a concept album consisting of 15 of the songs, The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical, which she and Barlow released on September 10,2021.
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Emily Bear is the youngest Grammy nominee, and youngest winner, in the musical theater category to date.
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Also in 2021 Emily Bear orchestrated and conducted "The Magic Is Calling", an anthem written to celebrate Walt Disney World's 50th anniversary, scored, with Brooke Blair, two episodes of the streaming series The Premise, and composed the music for the KCET documentary Life Centered: The Helen Jean Taylor Story, for which she won a 2022 Los Angeles Area Emmy Award.
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Emily Bear plays the piano on the soundtrack to the game Syberia: The World Before.
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Early in 2022, Emily Bear returned to play with the World Doctors Orchestra in Anguilla.
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Emily Bear discontinued the lawsuit in September 2022 after a reported settlement.
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Emily Bear composed the score of the Netflix film Dog Gone, based on the 2016 book by Pauls Toutonghi; the film and soundtrack album were both released in January 2023.
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In mid-2023, Emily Bear toured as the featured pianist for Beyonce's Renaissance World Tour and appears in the concert film Renaissance: A Film by Beyonce.
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Barlow and Emily Bear wrote songs for the film Moana 2, the youngest composers, and the first female writing team for an animated Disney movie.