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.
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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. Early life īear was born and raised in Rockford, Illinois, the youngest of three children of Brian, an orthopedic surgeon, and Andrea Bear. In mid-2023, Bear is touring as the pianist for Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour. She was listed on Forbes ' 2022 30 Under 30.
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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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