![]() More baking than cooking, because that's more fun to eat.Bear was born and raised in Rockford, Illinois, the youngest of three children of Brian, an orthopedic surgeon, and Andrea Bear. "I love swimming and I love wakeboarding, and I just recently hiked a glacier in Alaska, which was pretty cool," she says. ![]() That being the case, perhaps the most amazing thing about Bear is that she finds time for so many other interests - and still sounds like a normal kid. So I still have to spend many hours practicing and drilling just like everyone else." "(But) even though it's a little more natural for me, I definitely have to work very, very hard to get classical and jazz and orchestrating the way it is. "The hardest part for me in film scoring is actually trying to learn the computer stuff rather than writing music," she says. "Peralada" was inspired by a trip to Spain, while "Tutti Cuore" takes the listener on a short jaunt to Italy.Įven though new melodies bubble out of her with ease, Bear emphasizes that her success has not come without effort. Performed with a jazz trio, it ranges from a light-classical feel to peppy Latin rhythms. "Diversity" reveals a composer with an adventurous ear. That a person could sit down, not make errors, that it just flooded out of their system, both as a virtuoso but also just as a blatant creator of music. "One could ask and argue, 'Is this what Mozart was like?' Because we talk about people like this, and you sometimes don't believe the stories. You are hearing someone who is not only a master of their craft but is channeling something that can only be produced by someone who has lived a full life. That doesn't match.' Then you forget you're listening to someone as young as she is. You see this cute girl walk out and she's just as nice as can be, and she starts playing and you kind of crease your brow and wonder, 'OK, wait. Her ear and the ease with which she plays at her age is off the charts. "She's extraordinarily gifted with improvisation. "I've never seen someone like this before. "That word is completely overused to sell tickets. He also is an artistic director who designed the Mesa Arts Center's classical music series for the 2014-15 season.īailey also has a problem with the P-word, but for completely different reasons. In Mesa, Bear will play selections from "Diversity" with cellist Zuill Bailey, a Texas-based musician who performed on the album. Oh, and she also was a competitive ice skater, until a broken thumb sidelined that pursuit. ![]() I'm a kid, and I have friends, and I have playdates, and I have sleepovers, and I used to be on the swim team, and I used to play the French horn in the band." ![]() "When people think of the term prodigy, they usually think of a person who spends their entire life in a room, rehearsing 10 hours a day, that kind of thing, and they have no childhood, they're not very well-adjusted. It's positive and it's fun," says Bear, who will perform Thursday, Oct. "I feel like 'prodigy' has kind of a negative stereotype to it, and I feel like playing piano and writing music should not be negative. Despite her resume, she's not a big fan of "the P word": prodigy. On her most recent CD, last year's "Diversity," she collaborated with legendary producer Quincy Jones on a collection of original music inspired by her love of classic, jazz and world travel.Īt her age, it's a list of accomplishments that leaps over the line between impressive and OMG. Now 13, she has played Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl and on television for Ellen DeGeneres and Queen Latifah. At 6, she performed for President George W. Emily Bear began playing the piano at 18 months.
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