Emily Bear (born August 30, 2001) is a pianist and composer from Rockford, Illinois.
When Emily was 2 years old, her grandmother recognized her talent at the piano. Bear began to study with Emilio del Rosario at the Music Institute of Chicago. Within 4 years she was enrolled for study of classical music at the Winnetka campus.Besides her extraordinary talent at the piano, Bear started to compose her own music at the age of three. At 8 years, she has already composed more than 350 pieces - and much of her work - both composition and improvisation - is of the more difficult, 20th Century genre, inclusive of Jazz elements. 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 five appearances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show,played at the White House for President Bush when she was 6, and played a complete Mozart concerto from memory with the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra.
