Emily Bear is a pianist

Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...

 and composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

 from Rockford, Illinois

Rockford, Illinois

Rockford is a mid-sized city located on both banks of the Rock River in far northern Illinois. Often referred to as "The Forest City", Rockford is the county seat of Winnebago County, Illinois, USA. As reported in the 2010 U.S. census, the city was home to 152,871 people, the third most populated...

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When Bear was 2 years old, her grandmother recognized her talent at the piano. She began to study with Emilio del Rosario at the Music Institute of Chicago

Music Institute of Chicago

Music Institute of Chicago is a community music school in Illinois with campuses in Downers Grove, Evanston, Highland Park, Lake Forest, Lincolnshire, Northbrook and Winnetka....

. Within 4 years she was enrolled for study of classical music at the Winnetka

Winnetka, Illinois

Winnetka is an affluent North Shore village located approximately north of downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois. Winnetka was featured on the list of America's 25 top-earning towns and "one of the best places to live" by CNN Money in 2011...

 campus. Besides her extraordinary talent at the piano, Bear started to compose her own music at the age of three. At 8 years old, she had already composed more than 350 pieces, and much of her work - both composition and improvisation - is of the more difficult, 20th Century genre, including jazz. 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).

Bear has made six appearances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

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, played at the White House

White House

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 for President George W. Bush

George W. Bush

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 when she was 6, and played a complete Mozart concerto

Piano Concerto No. 23 (Mozart)

The Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major is a musical composition for piano and orchestra written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was finished, according to Mozart's own catalogue, on March 2, 1786, around the time of the premiere of his opera, The Marriage of Figaro...

 from memory with the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra.

Dates & Performances

• October 3, 2007 - The Ellen DeGeneres Show
• November 23, 2007 - The Ellen DeGeneres Show
• January 8, 2008 - Radio feature: Note By Note: The Making of Steinway L1037
• March 24, 2008 - White House
• March 28, 2008 - ASCAP 2008 Morton Gould Young Composer Award
• April 13, 2008 - 2008 Music Institute of Chicago Gala on May 7, 2008
• April 13, 2008 - RAMI Outstanding Achievement Award
• April 15, 2008 - New CD "The Love in Us" released, Web Shop.
• August 3, 2008 - The Elllen DeGeneres Favorite Moments Montage
• August 3, 2008 - WFMT's Introductions Radio Program on September 20, 2008
• September 7, 2008 - Ravinia Festival in Chicago, IL
• October 3, 2008 - Grand Opening of Chicago's American Girl Place
• October 26, 2008 - Master Class with Lang Lang
  Lang Lang (pianist)
  Lang Lang , born June 14, 1982, in Shenyang, Liaoning, China, is a Chinese concert pianist, currently residing in New York, who has performed with leading orchestras in Europe, the United States and his native China. He is increasingly well known around the world for his concert performances,...
  
  
• November 13, 2008 - New CD "Once Upon A Wish" released, Web Shop.
• November 17, 2008 - The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Video
• February 15, 2009 - Emily (piano) and her sister Lauren (harp) perform at Music In The Loft
• March 28, 2009 - Rockford Symphony Orchestra
• April 11, 2009 - Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra
• April 17, 2009 - Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Chicago 25th Anniversary Season Benefit Performance
• April 26, 2009 - Luxury Living Expo
• April 28, 2009 - Emily on Ellen DeGeneres Show
• May 2, 2009 - 5th Annual Big Mac Under Glass Gala
• May 9, 2009 - Noche de Niños Gala
• January 5, 2010 - The Ellen DeGeneres Show
• November 9, 2010 - Dancing with the Stars
  Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 11)
  Dancing with the Stars returned for an 11th season on September 20, 2010. The cast was announced during the August 30 episode of Bachelor Pad during a live press conference that included a Q&A session with host Tom Bergeron and co-host Brooke Burke and the new cast. There are twelve celebrity cast...
  
  
• November 22, 2010 - New CD "Hope" is released
• December 2, 2010 - Carnegie Hall Debut
• January 18, 2011 - Emily performed a concert in Geneva Switzerland
• February 23, 2011 - Featured on ABC nightline
• March 10, 2011 - Featured on German TV on SAT1 channel

assembled from Emily Bear's Official homepage

Discography

• Five Years Wise (2007)
• The Love In Us (2008)
• Once Upon A Wish (2008)
• Always True (2009)
• Hope (2010)

External links

• Official site
• Fan Forum
• The Next Mozart? WGN feature