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Kris Bowers
Kristopher Bowers (born April 5, 1989) is an American composer, pianist, and director. He has composed scores for films including Green Book, King Richard, The Color Purple, and The Wild Robot and television series Bridgerton, Mrs. America, Dear White People, When They See Us, and Secret Invasion.
At the 96th Academy Awards, Bowers won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film for The Last Repair Shop, along with his co-director Ben Proudfoot. Their previous collaboration, A Concerto Is a Conversation, also received a nomination at the 93rd Academy Awards.
Bowers is the recipient of the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition for Amazon Prime Video's adaptation of The Snowy Day. He has garnered multiple nominations at the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards, and Critics' Choice Awards.
During his career, Bowers has recorded, performed and collaborated with José James, Jay-Z, and Alicia Keys. He has also collaborated with filmmakers Blitz Bazawule, Ava DuVernay, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Malcolm D. Lee, Chris Sanders, and Justin Simien.
Bowers was born in Los Angeles, California, on April 5, 1989. His father is a film and television writer, and his mother is an executive at DirecTV. Although neither of his parents received more than a high school education, they wanted their son to play the piano, so they played recordings of pianists while he was still in the womb.
Bowers began piano lessons at the age of 4 and private classical music lessons starting at around the age of 9. Growing up, Bowers listened to "classic soul records and hip-hop before falling under the spell of jazz, classical music, and film scores."
Bowers studied jazz and classical piano at Los Angeles County High School for the Arts where his teachers included Mulgrew Miller and Donald Vega. He studied jazz at Colburn School for Performing Arts. He graduated in 2006, then attended Juilliard and obtained a bachelor's and master's degree in jazz performance. While a student, he performed frequently in New York City.
Bowers played on Jay-Z and Kanye West's 2011 album Watch the Throne, and later toured with Marcus Miller throughout 2012. Bowers' debut album, Heroes + Misfits (Concord, 2014), premiered at No. 1 on the iTunes Jazz charts. One AllMusic reviewer commented that Bowers was "based in jazz but with an ear for contemporary R&B, film scores, and electronic music". Bowers' first film composition was for the 2013 documentary Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me. In 2014, Bowers performed at the International Jazz Day Concert in Japan, the Festival de Jazz de Vitoria-Gasteiz in Spain, and at the London Jazz Festival.
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Kris Bowers
Kristopher Bowers (born April 5, 1989) is an American composer, pianist, and director. He has composed scores for films including Green Book, King Richard, The Color Purple, and The Wild Robot and television series Bridgerton, Mrs. America, Dear White People, When They See Us, and Secret Invasion.
At the 96th Academy Awards, Bowers won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film for The Last Repair Shop, along with his co-director Ben Proudfoot. Their previous collaboration, A Concerto Is a Conversation, also received a nomination at the 93rd Academy Awards.
Bowers is the recipient of the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition for Amazon Prime Video's adaptation of The Snowy Day. He has garnered multiple nominations at the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards, and Critics' Choice Awards.
During his career, Bowers has recorded, performed and collaborated with José James, Jay-Z, and Alicia Keys. He has also collaborated with filmmakers Blitz Bazawule, Ava DuVernay, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Malcolm D. Lee, Chris Sanders, and Justin Simien.
Bowers was born in Los Angeles, California, on April 5, 1989. His father is a film and television writer, and his mother is an executive at DirecTV. Although neither of his parents received more than a high school education, they wanted their son to play the piano, so they played recordings of pianists while he was still in the womb.
Bowers began piano lessons at the age of 4 and private classical music lessons starting at around the age of 9. Growing up, Bowers listened to "classic soul records and hip-hop before falling under the spell of jazz, classical music, and film scores."
Bowers studied jazz and classical piano at Los Angeles County High School for the Arts where his teachers included Mulgrew Miller and Donald Vega. He studied jazz at Colburn School for Performing Arts. He graduated in 2006, then attended Juilliard and obtained a bachelor's and master's degree in jazz performance. While a student, he performed frequently in New York City.
Bowers played on Jay-Z and Kanye West's 2011 album Watch the Throne, and later toured with Marcus Miller throughout 2012. Bowers' debut album, Heroes + Misfits (Concord, 2014), premiered at No. 1 on the iTunes Jazz charts. One AllMusic reviewer commented that Bowers was "based in jazz but with an ear for contemporary R&B, film scores, and electronic music". Bowers' first film composition was for the 2013 documentary Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me. In 2014, Bowers performed at the International Jazz Day Concert in Japan, the Festival de Jazz de Vitoria-Gasteiz in Spain, and at the London Jazz Festival.