Kurt Bestor (born 1958) is an American keyboardist and composer specializing in new age, film scores, and jazz. He is known for his Christmas instrumental music similar to Mannheim Steamroller Christmas, some of which were featured on the Weather Channel during the 1980s and 90s holiday season. His famous songs are "Children's Prayer", "Mama Do not You Weep". He is also known for composing music for the 1993 film Rigoletto, and for writing music for the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games, as well as official videos of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
An old resident of Utah, Bestor played a concert in the Salt Lake City area and with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
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Childhood
Kurt Bestor was born in 1958 in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He took piano lessons from his mother as a child. His grandfather played a trumpet in Big Big bands and his uncle played with a trumpet on Jack Benny's band. Later, Kurt Bestor and his family moved to Orem, Utah in 1966, where he attended Orem Middle School and learned how to play trumpets. When Bestor watched the 1975 Jaws movie, he later recalled "I know that's what I want to do when I see Jaws during high school, I've been scoring movies ever since." He decided to write a soundtrack for the movie he did for The Buttercream Gang and Rigoletto. He is also influenced by classical music.
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Course period
In 1977, Bestor and his family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He then continued a two-year religious mission in Yugoslavia, where he observed social issues such as homelessness, poverty and war, which would inspire his last song "Children's Prayer." After his mission, Bestor married his first wife, Melodie.
Bestor attended Brigham Young University to write his songs for student projects, and also composed music for the Sundance Institute's composer lab. He eventually dropped out of Brigham Young University University to pursue a full-time music career.
Music career (1987-today)
In 1988 Kurt Bestor released Airus Christmas Volume 1 on cassettes and CDs. Composed of music played on the synthesizer, it was a career success for Bestor. Also The Weather Channel played Christmas music of Kurt Bestor during December in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He then proceeded to release the Joyspring , Seasons , Evening Angels , Airus Christmas Volume 2 , and the well-known CD Innovator with his famous song "Children's Prayer" - which he composed with his best friend Sam Cardon. She also released Noel Christmas Volume 3 and the album Sketches with the song Mama Do not You Weep . He also made music for LDS Church videos and also composed soundtracks for the 1993 Rigoletto film and for the 2000 Scarecrow cartoon.
Kurt Bestor is still performing at the Salt Lake Utah concert and at the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. He also wrote albums such as Innovators II and music for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. He was troubled by the attacks of 11 September 2001 and the Iraq War in the 2000s. Today he still features music at the Salt Lake City concert.
In 2014, Bestor released his first music video to accompany his song "Baroque Coco" from the recently released album, Kurt Bestor and the Collective; Outside the Line.
Personal life
Bestor's 20-year marriage with Melodie's first wife ended in 1999, and her second hasty marriage with Holli Ammon (singer) ended in 2001 after just a few months. Balancing career obligations with family tasks becomes difficult and creates a distance between Bestor and his children, Kristin and Erika, both born with spina bifida, a spinal defect that causes partial paralysis and other defects.
In January 2003, Bestor married Petrina, a Kenya-born safari driver who moved to Utah after serving as assistant Robert Redford at the location of Out of Africa.
Discography
- 1988: Christmas Volume Airus 1 (later known as Kurt Bestor Christmas volume 1 of 1996)
- 1988: Joyspring
- 1989: Season
- 1990: Joyspring II
- 1991: Christmas Volume 2 Airus (later known as Kurt Bestor Christmas volume 2 of 1996)
- 1993: Innovator
- 1994: Evening Angels
- 1995: Christmas (later known as Noel in 1997)
- 1997: Sketch
- 1998: Dad
- 1999: The Dance
- 1999: One Silent Night
- 2002: Innovator II
- 2014: Outside Front Line
Soundtrack scores
- 1989: The Better Society: America Becomes a Nation
- 1990: The Witching of Ben Wagner
- 1991: In Your Most Dreams
- 1991: Seventh Brother
- 1992: Split Infinity
- 1992: Gang Buttercream
- 1993: Rigoletto
- 1993: Buttercream Gang in Secret of Secret Treasure
- 1995: Behind the Waterfall
- 1998: No More Bath
- 1998: Dickens ghost passes through
- 1999: New Testament Soundtrack
- 1999: Book of Mormon soundtracks
- 1999: Soundtrack Doctrine and Covenants
- 2000: Rice Fields
Reference
Source
- [1] The official website of Kurt Bestors.
- Kurt Bestor on IMDb
- [2] The pursuit of his muse has given him a lot of turmoil.
- [3] How the composer Kurt Bestor finds his own Christmas flow
- [4] Kurt Bestors Biography on the Famous Mormons website.
- [5] Kurt Bestor uses multimedia with his first music video.
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