In between composing for films, Bestor keeps busy writing and arranging music for other projects. He is currently scoring a feature-length film for Disney titled The Witching of Ben Wagner. He already has film scores for several movies tucked under his belt, including four Disney Channel children's films BYU's latest motion picture, A More Perfect Union and several made-for-television movies.
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"I don't even remember what the movie was, but at the time I determined that I was going to write music for film."Īnd that's what Bestor, a member of the Provo (Utah) Edgemont 1st Ward, does. "I went to a movie one day and, as I was sitting there, it suddenly occurred to me that someone was making money writing music for that film, " he explained. It was also during high school in the mid-1970s that Bestor, now 31, decided to make music his career. "It was so bad, I don't think she's been the same since."Although that first composition may have been terrible by his own admission, Bestor's talents improved as the young student began writing compositions for the Orem (Utah) High School stage band, concert band, and choir. "When I was in the seventh grade, I wrote a song for this girl named Colette," Bestor remembered. In January 2003, Bestor married Petrina, a Kenyan-born safari guide who moved to Utah after serving as an assistant to Robert Redford on the set of Out of Africa.It was a crush on a classmate that actually got Kurt Bestor started in his career - a career that has already garnered the young composer an Emmy award, three albums, and several stints scoring music for motion pictures. Balancing career obligations with family duties became difficult and created distance between Bestor and his children, Kristin and Erika, both of whom were born with spina bifida, a spinal defect that causes partial paralysis and other disabilities. Personal lifeīestor's 20-year marriage to first wife Melodie ended in 1999, and a hasty second marriage to Holli Ammon (a singer) ended in 2001 after just a few months. In 2014, Bestor released his first music video to accompany his song "Baroque Coco" from his recently released album, Kurt Bestor and the Collective Outside the Lines. Today he is still performing music in Salt Lake City concerts. He is troubled by the Septemattacks and the Iraq War in the 2000s.
He also wrote albums like Innovators II and music for the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics. Kurt Bestor still performs at the Salt Lake Utah concerts and at the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. He also made music for the LDS Church videos and also composed the soundtrack for the 1993 movie Rigoletto and for the 2000 cartoon movie "The Scarecrow". He also released Noel Christmas Volume 3 and the album Sketches with the song Mama Don't You Weep. He later went on to release Joyspring, Seasons, Evening Angels, An Airus Christmas Volume 2, and the well-known CD Innovators with his famous song "Prayer of the Children"-which he composed with his best friend Sam Cardon. Also The Weather Channel played Kurt Bestor's Christmas music during the month of December in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Consisting of music played on a synthesizer, it was a career success for Bestor. In 1988 Kurt Bestor released An Airus Christmas Volume 1 on cassette and CD. He ultimately dropped out of Brigham Young University college to pursue a full-time musical career. He later went on a two-year religious mission in Yugoslavia where, where he observed social problems such as homelessness, poverty and war, which would inspire his later song "Prayer of the Children." After his mission, Bestor married his first wife Melodie.īestor attended Brigham Young University to write his songs for student projects, and also composed music for the Sundance Institute's composer lab. In 1977 Bestor and his family joined the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was also influenced by classical music. I have made a goal to score films ever since." He decided to compose soundtracks for movies which he went on to do for The Buttercream Gang and Rigoletto.
When Bestor watched the 1975 film Jaws, he later recalled "I knew that's what I wanted to do when I saw Jaws during high school.
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Later on Kurt Bestor and his family moved to Orem, Utah in 1966, where he attended Orem High School and learned how to play the trumpet. His grandpa played the trumpet in Western Big bands and his uncle played with the trumpet in Jack Benny's band. He took piano lessons from his mother as a child. Kurt Bestor was born in 1958 in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
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