Биография
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Год рождения
30 августа 2001 (возраст 22)
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Место рождения
Illinois, США
Emily Bear (born August 30, 2001) is an American composer and pianist, who has achieved wide notice at an early age. After beginning to compose and play piano as a small child, Bear has played with orchestras in the U.S., Europe and Asia, at such venues as Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl.
Emily Bear was born and raised in Rockford, Illinois, the youngest of three children of Brian, an orthopedic surgeon, and Andrea Bear, and is home schooled. Emily is the great-granddaughter of late Judge Max H. Reicher of New Britain, Connecticut.
When Emily was two years old, her grandmother, Merle Langs Greenberg, recognized her talent at the piano. Emily began to study with Emilio del Rosario at the Music Institute of Chicago. Within four years, she was enrolled at the Winnetka campus to study classical music. Emily started to compose music at the age of three. By the age of eight, she had composed more than 350 pieces. For her piece Northern Lights, she won the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award for composers under 18 years of age. She also won the Rockford Area Music Industry Award (RAMI). Emily debuted at the Ravinia Festival at age 5.
Bear has made six appearances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, played 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.
Emily Bear made her debut at Carnegie Hall in 2010 at age 9. In 2011, she appeared at the Hollywood Bowl before more than 11,000 people, where she played a medley of her own arrangement, “The Bumble Boogie” and performed “Miss Celie’s Blues” (from the score of The Color Purple) with singers Gloria Estefan, Patti Austin, Siedah Garrett and Nikki Yanofsky. That summer, Quincy Jones presented Bear at the 45th Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and the Festival Castell in Peralada, Spain where she performed solo as well as with Esperanza Spalding. Bear's mentor Quincy Jones stated: "I am at once astounded and inspired by the enormous talent that Emily embodies. … She is the complete 360-degree package, and there are no limits to the musical heights that she can reach."
Since age six, Bear has studied classical piano with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s principal keyboardist Mary Sauer and also studies with Veda Kaplinsky, head of the piano department at Juilliard. She studies jazz improvisation with Alan Swain and composing with Ron Sadoff, head of New York University Film Scoring Department. Bear continues to compose prolifically and particularly enjoys composing for film.
Released in May 2013, Diversity, a jazz album on the Concord Records label, produced by Quincy Jones, was recorded at Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles. Bear composed all of the music on the album. The album peaked at #3 on Billboard's Traditional Jazz Albums chart. In 2015, Bear won another ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award.
At age 13, Pianist/Composer/Arranger Emily Bear is one of the most astonishing and prolific musical talents of our time – composing, orchestrating, and performing in an astonishingly (remarkable) diverse collection of styles. She has performed at many of the worlds most famous venues including Carnegie Hall, the White House, Lincoln Center, Montreux Jazz Festival, Blue Note, Ravinia, and the Hollywood Bowl, among others. Her sold out concerts have taken her to concert halls across the U. S. and Europe - from palaces in Vienna to stadiums in Japan and Korea. Her love for all musical styles runs from classical to jazz and everything in-between. Whether before a crowd of 15,000 at Art On Ice in Zurich or an intimate concert at The Blue Note in NYC - Emily's rare ability to inhabit a composers style or to touch emotions with her original melodies has inspired people worldwide.
At 6 years of age, Emily was the the youngest recipient to ever receive the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award. She established herself as a classical artist performing Mozart's Piano Concerto, no. 23 K488 at the age of 7, followed by the Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor and most recently, Rhapsody In Blue by Gershwin, which she performed with several orchestra's this fall across the U.S. and Canada. She premiered several new orchestral works this year that she composed and orchestrated to critical acclaim. Her love for jazz has taken her from the famous hall of the Montreux Jazz Festival to Blue Note Tokyo, Dizzy's at Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Blue Note in NYC - where she recently premiered original music she composed for Big Band Jazz Orchestra.
Emily also loves composing for film and TV and this year composed the music for 6 national commercials for the new Weight Watchers ad campaign. Emily has released 6 CD's of original music, with her most recent CD, Diversity, produced by Quincy Jones for Concord Music. “She’s the most delightful human being I’ve ever met in my life,” Quincy says. “And her music is the same way. I am at once astounded and inspired by the enormous talent that Emily embodies. With the ability to seamlessly move from Classical to Jazz and Be-bop, she shows as much musical prowess as pianists/composers twice her age, and I am thrilled to be working with her. She’s astounding, man … she’s astounding. She plays like she’s 40 years old. She is the complete 360-degree package, and there are no limits to the musical heights she can reach.”
Emily has been composing since she was 3 years old. By the time she was 4, she was having pieces published and distributed by Hal Leonard and currently has 5 original sheet music songbooks distributed worldwide. Emily has helped raise millions for charities across the globe through performances and events. Each of her CD's and songbooks dedicate a portion of sales to various charities. A documentary on Emily has attracted more than 26 million views on youtube and has recently won an Emmy Award. Emily appeared on the Ellen Degeneres Show 6 times in 2 years, performing an original song she composed for each appearance. She has been featured nationally and internationally on TV and print including ABC nightline, Katie Couric Show, Queen Latifah Show, Dancing With the Stars, Good Morning America, Australia Sunday Night Channel 7, Germany SAT1, and others. Emily was interviewed for NPR Radio by David Green that was selected for a CD collection of NPR's top stories: People We Meet: Unforgettable Conversations.
An ASCAP member since age 5, Emily's teachers include Mary Sauer, principal pianist for the Chicago Symphony; Veda Kaplinsky, Head of the Piano Department at Juilliard; Ron Sadoff head of NYU Steinhardt for film scoring; and Frank Kimbrough, head of the Juilliard Jazz program for jazz piano. She also studies theory with Marshall Griffith from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Emily and her family live in Illinois where in her free time, she loves to bake, wakeboard, volunteer at local animal shelters and make jewelry.
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