EMILY BEAR

At age 13, Pianist/Composer/Arranger Emily Bear enjoys composing, orchestrating, and performing in a diverse collection of styles. She has performed at many of the worlds’ most well known venues including Carnegie Hall, the White House, Lincoln Center, Montreux Jazz Festival, Blue Note, Ravinia, and the Hollywood Bowl, among others. Her concerts have taken her to concert halls across the U. S. and Europe. Her love for all musical styles ranges from classical to jazz, and everything in-between.
At 6 years of age, Emily received the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award. She has continued to be a prolific composer and premiered several new orchestral works this year that she composed and orchestrated to critical acclaim. 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 orchestras this fall across the U.S. and Canada. 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.