1. Kristopher Bowers was born on April 5,1989 and is an American composer, pianist, and director.
30 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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Kris Bowers played on Jay-Z and Kanye West's 2011 album Watch the Throne, and later toured with Marcus Miller throughout 2012.
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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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Kris Bowers performed at The White House in 2016 for the International Jazz Day Concert hosted by President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama.
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The next year, Krug commissioned Kris Bowers to write compositions inspired by and paired with one of their signature champagnes.
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Kris Bowers developed his scoring career across film and TV with the 2017 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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Kris Bowers composed the score for Green Book, earning him a nomination for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Score.
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Kris Bowers' debut as a director began with A Concerto Is a Conversation, a documentary short film he co-directed with Ben Proudfoot.
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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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Since 2020, Kris Bowers has composed the score for Netflix's period drama, Bridgerton.
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Kris Bowers produced two original soundtracks for Netflix's Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story : the first as the series' score, and the second with classical reinterpretations of pop songs.
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Kris Bowers collaborated with Alicia Keys to reimagine her song "If I Ain't Got You" for the album's lead single.
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Kris Bowers's film scoring work accelerated in this period with Justin Simien's comedy horror film Bad Hair, Space Jam: A New Legacy and the Chevalier.
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In 2023, Kris Bowers scored three films and two television projects, including Haunted Mansion, Origin, The Color Purple, Secret Invasion, and Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, continuing his working relationship with Justin Simien and Ava DuVernay.
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Kris Bowers received further acclaim for his score for DreamWorks Animation's The Wild Robot, which garnered nominations from the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, Critics' Choice Awards, and BAFTAs, as well as the award for Outstanding Original Score for a Studio Film from the Society of Composers and Lyricists.
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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.