This girl is mega-big in the USA. This is her blog:
Emily Bear studies
with Emilio del Rosario at The Music Institute of Chicago but is now studying with Mary Sauer of the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra. Other tutors include Yoheved Kaplinsky, head of the
Juilliard piano department, and jazz teacher, Alan Swain. Emily is
equally at ease with jazz, classical, or her own compositions.
When Emily
was only five years old, she made her professional debut performing a solo concert at the Ravinia
Music Festival in July, 2007. She played a
solo 40 minute program mixing various musical genres.
She is the youngest performer since Ravinia’s was formed more than 100 years ago.
On March 24th, 2008, Emily performed at The White House for The Easter Egg Roll breakfast
for President and Mrs. Bush and 400 guests. She gave a 30 minute
solo concert featuring jazz and original compositions.
Emily was a
recipient of a 2008 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Competition award
for her original song, “Northern Lights”. She was one of 9 winners in
the 18 year old and younger category out of a field of almost 600
applicants. She was asked to be one of two pianists to perform at the
awards ceremony in New York City this past May, and was invited to
perform her winning song again for a performance at Lincoln Center this
past December.
Emily received national attention when she was a
featured guest on The Ellen Degeneres Show. She appeared on 3 episodes
in three and a half months: October 3rd and November 23, 2007 and
January 8th, 2008. She composed an original song for each appearance:
“Ellen’s Song”, “Thanks...”, and “The Love In Us”. She appeared on the
show for a 4th time in November, 2008, debuting another original song,
“Once Upon a Wish”. In April, 2009, she appeared for the 5th time on
the show, debuting her original song, “Tomorrow’s Wishes”.
In
January of 2008, Emily was asked by Steinway and Sons to perform a solo
concert at the Chicago film premier of the new documentary film "Note
by Note: the Making of Steinway L1037". She performed the concert on
the actual piano built in the movie.
This past November. Emily
was personally invited by Lang Lang to perform for him at a Master
Class hosted by The Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Emily opened for
Ramsey Lewis and his Trio on October 17th, 2007, playing a 30 minute
solo piano concert. Emily also appeared at The Raue Center for the Arts
this December 9th in a featured solo concert. She opened The 2007
McDonald’s Chicago Thanksgiving Day Parade (which was televised
nationally on WGN) performing her original song “Waterlights” . The
following year, two more of Emily’s original songs were featured in the
2008 Chicago Thanksgiving Parade: “Giving” and “Christmas Bells”.
Emily
made her orchestral debut in front of a capacity audience of 2500
people performing her original song, “The Love in Us” with The Orlando
Symphony Orchestra at a private corporate event in April, 2008. This
May, she performed at Noche de Ninos, an event for Los Angeles
Children’s Hospital, hosted by Jennifer Lopez ,Warren Beatty, Annette
Benning and Jewel, honoring Jamie Lee Curtis.
Emily was asked to
become a video disc artist for the Piano Disc System and just taped an
episode for a new children’s television show for PBS titled, “All You
Need Is Music”. Emily was also recently featured on the WFMT Radio
Show, Introductions, performing a solo 45 minute live concert. Emily
performed in February, 2009 at the Music in the Loft Concert Series.
Upcoming
concerts include performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto, no.23, k488 in
March, 2009 with the Rockford Symphony Orchestra and in April, 2009,
with the Champagne-Urbana Symphony. She has also been invited to
perform in a concert honoring Chicago Tonight’s 25th Season for WTTW
Television at The Harris Theater in Millennium Park.
Emily has been featured in stories on: ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News, WTTW- Chicago Tonight, and WGN.
Emily
recorded her first CD, Five Years Wise, in July of 2007. The CD is a
mixture of jazz standards and original songs. A second CD, The Love In
Us, featuring 10 original songs, was released in April, 2008 and a 3rd
CD, Once Upon a Wish, was released in December of 2008. She is a member
of ASCAP, SAG and AFTRA.
Past Performances include:
- Noche de Niños Gala - May 9, 2009
- 5th Annual Big Mac Under Glass Gala - May 2, 2009
- The Ellen Degeneres Show - April 30, 2009
- Chicago Tonight's 25h Anniversary Season Benefit - April 17, 2009
- Rockford Symphony Orchestra - Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 23, K488 - March 28, 2009
- Music In the Loft - February 15, 2009
- The Ellen Degeneres Show - November 17, 2008
- Lang Lang Master Class at The Chicago Symphony, November 16, 2008
- Ravinia - September 7, 2008
- 2008 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Competition Awards Ceremony, performed "Northern Lights"
- McDonald's 2008 World Convention with members of The Orlando Symphony Orchestra - April 13,2008
- The White House Easter Egg Roll Breakfast - March 24, 2008
- Concert at Chicago Premiere of documentary film "Note By Note: The Making of Steinway L1037" - January 18, 2007
- The Ellen Degeneres Show - January 8, 2007
- Raue Center for the Arts concert - December 9, 2007
- The Ellen Degeneres Show - November 23, 2007
- Opened The Chicago Thanksgiving Day Parade - November 22, 2007
- Opening act for Ramsey Lewis at The Coronado Theatre - October 17, 2007
- The Ellen Degeneres Show - October 3, 2007
- Music Institute of Chicago, Young People's Concert - September 9, 2007
- On The Waterfront - September 1, 2007
- Ravinia, professional debut - July 1, 2007
- Music Institute of Chicago Gala - Celebrity Piano Bar - May 2, 200
