1. Kristopher Bowers was born on April 5,1989 and is an American composer, pianist, and director.
35 Facts About Kris Bowers
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Kris Bowers has composed scores for films including Green Book, King Richard, The Color Purple, and The Wild Robot and television series Bridgerton, Mrs America, Dear White People, and When They See Us.
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At the 96th Academy Awards, Bowers won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film for The Last Repair Shop, along with his co-director Ben Proudfoot.
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Kris Bowers is the recipient of the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition for Amazon Prime Video's adaptation of The Snowy Day.
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Kris Bowers has garnered multiple nominations at the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards, and Critics' Choice Awards.
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Kris Bowers has collaborated with filmmakers Blitz Bazawule, Ava DuVernay, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Malcolm D Lee, Chris Sanders, and Justin Simien.
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Kris Bowers was born in Los Angeles, California, on April 5,1989.
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Kris Bowers's father is a film and television writer, and his mother is an executive at DirecTV.
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Kris Bowers began piano lessons at the age of 4 and private classical music lessons starting at around the age of 9.
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Kris Bowers studied jazz and classical piano at Los Angeles County High School for the Arts where his teachers included Mulgrew Miller and Donald Vega.
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Kris Bowers studied jazz at Colburn School for Performing Arts.
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Kris Bowers graduated in 2006, then attended Juilliard and obtained a bachelor's and master's degree in jazz performance.
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In 2011, Kris Bowers played on Watch the Throne, a Jay Z and Kanye West album.
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In 2014, Kris Bowers performed at the International Jazz Day Concert in Japan, the Festival de Jazz de Vitoria-Gasteiz in Spain, and at the London Jazz Festival.
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Kris Bowers was one of six composers invited to the Sundance Composers Lab in 2015.
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Kris Bowers teamed up with the choreographer Kyle Abraham, to create Absent Matter, which premiered at the Joyce Theater in New York City.
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In 2016, Kris Bowers was invited to perform at The White House for the International Jazz Day Concert hosted by President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama.
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Kris Bowers has paired his music with extensive and immersive dining experiences.
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In 2017, Krug commissioned Kris Bowers to write compositions inspired by and paired with a signature Krug champagne.
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In 2017, Kris Bowers worked on the documentary Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You and the film Little Boxes, as well as the television programs Religion of Sports and Dear White People.
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Also in 2016, Kris Bowers composed music for the Amazon children's Christmas special, The Snowy Day, based on the 1962 book of the same title by Ezra Jack Keats.
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Kris Bowers wrote the score for the 2018 film Green Book, which was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Score.
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Kris Bowers was the piano teacher for the film's star, Mahershala Ali, and was Ali's stand in for some close ups of hands playing.
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In 2019 Kris Bowers wrote the score for Ava DuVernay's mini-series When They See Us.
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Kris Bowers received his first Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards nominations for Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited or Anthology Series, Movie or Special.
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In 2020, Kris Bowers and Ben Proudfoot codirected the short documentary film A Concerto Is a Conversation, centering on Kris Bowers' conversations with his grandfather about personal and family history.
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Since 2020, Kris Bowers has been composing the score for Netflix's period drama, Bridgerton, being nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series.
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Kris Bowers composed the score for the comedy horror film Bad Hair.
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Kris Bowers wrote the score of the 2021 film Space Jam: A New Legacy.
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In May 2022, the Monterey Jazz Festival commissioned Kris Bowers to compose a work, which he presented that September at the annual event.
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Kris Bowers had previously performed at the festival as a high school student for three years starting in 2003.
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In May 2023, Kris Bowers worked on two original soundtrack projects for the series Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story: the first one as the score of the series, while the second one provided for the reinterpretation in a classical music key of pop songs, working with Alicia Keys on the remaining of her song "If I Ain't Got You" as the lead single of the album.
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In December 2023, Kris Bowers composed the score of The Color Purple by Blitz the Ambassador.
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Kris Bowers's set had range and ambition and said something strong, sweet, and normative about phrasing and rhythm in jazz right now.
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Kris Bowers' influences include "Oscar Peterson, Wynton Kelly, Duke Ellington, Ahmad Jamal and Count Basie", as well as John Williams.