Kris Bowers

Emmy winning-composer Kris Bowers, who recently won a Daytime Emmy, scores compositions that step outside any genre’s traditional boundaries to form new and thrilling music. Bowers scored Netflix’s “Dear White People,” which premiered in April. Bowers showcases his talent for fusing music with storytelling through this story that follows a group of diverse students navigating their way through the discrimination at a predominantly white Ivy League college. Bowers also scored a wide range of films including Amazon’s tv movie “The Snowy Day,” for which Bowers recently won a Daytime Emmy, “Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me,” starring Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey, “Seeds of Time,” “Play it Forward,” “Kobe Bryant’s Muse,” featuring Kobe Bryant, “I Am Giant: Victor Cruz.” He also recently scored “Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You,” which premiered at the opening night of the Sundance Film Festival, and “Little Boxes” which premiered at the TriBeCa Film Festival and was promptly purchased by Netflix. In addition to composing for film and television, Bowers has recorded and/or performed with artists such as Q-Tip, Aretha Franklin, Marcus Miller, José James, Ludacris, Christian Rich, Jay-Z, and Kanye West. He was also commissioned by the Alvin Ailey dance company to create an original composition for “Untitled America,” choreographed by Kyle Abraham, a MacArthur Genius Grant winner, with whom Bowers is a long time collaborator. Bowers’s rich and eclectic sensibilities are also evident from the very first notes of Heroes + Misfits, his debut recording on Concord Jazz, which opened at No. 1 on the iTunes jazz chart. Bowers, a Juilliard-trained musician, has been the recipient of numerous awards and accolades for his excellence in jazz performance. In addition to being one of 40 artists selected to perform at the White House for the 2016 International Jazz Day, hosted by President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama, he won the coveted Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, where he was picked as favorite to win by Aretha Franklin at the semi-finals concert. He’s also been named a Steinway Artist, one of iTunes twelve “Artists to Watch” and was one of 6 composers to participate in the Sundance Film Composers Lab at Skywalker Sound. Bowers resides in Los Angeles, CA. http://www.krisbowers.com www.krisbowers.com