Emily Jordan Bear is an American composer, pianist, songwriter, and singer. 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.
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Emily Bear’s parents: Meet Andrea Bear & Brian Bear
Emily lives with her parents, Brian and Andrea, and her two older siblings, 17-year-old Benjamin, and 13-year-old Lauren. Bear was born and raised in Rockford, Illinois, the youngest of three children of Brian, an orthopedic surgeon, and Andrea Bear.
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Her mother has sung professionally and has a music education degree. After being home-schooled for a few years, Bear enrolled in Guilford High School in Rockford in 2015, graduating at age 15 in 2017.
She made her professional piano debut at the Ravinia Festival at age five, the youngest performer to play there. Soon she was enrolled at the Winnetka campus to study classical music. 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. She also won the Rockford Area Music Industry Outstanding Achievement Award RAMI that year.
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