In December 2018, Kurt completed his 31st consecutive year of these performances. Kurt Bestor still performs his "Kurt Bestor Christmas" Concerts, held now at the Eccles Theatre in Salt Lake City. Kurt also composed for albums such as Innovators II and composed music for the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics. He also created film music for LDS Church videos, and composed the soundtrack for the 1993 movie Rigoletto and 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 Innovators which featured Kurt's best-known composition "Prayer of the Children". Kurt Bestor's Christmas music received national radio airplay in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and continues to be heard today during seasonal broadcast periods. It was a career success for Bestor, and spawned his first live Christmas concert, held at Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City. In the fall of 1988, Kurt Bestor released An Airus Christmas Volume 1 on cassette and CD. This provided his first record company "Airus Records" to encourage Kurt to produce his first Christmas album. This provided Kurt his first opportunity to create and arrange a large amount of music on a deadline, which would help him greatly as he later pursued his film scoring career.īestor was awarded an Emmy for his collaboration with Sam Cardon on the original music for ABC's coverage of the 1988 Winter Olympics. Also, during this time, Kurt and his colleague Sam Cardon were hired to composed and produce a large library of commercial jingles. He performed for a number of TV shows, TV specials, and early productions of the "Children's Miracle Network Telethon." He also provided arrangements for these productions. In his early 20s, Kurt began working as a trumpet player and arranger at the Osmond TV Studios in Orem, Utah. He ultimately dropped out of Brigham Young University college to pursue a full-time musical career. The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s would later inspire his 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. He later went on a two-year religious mission in Yugoslavia, where he observed social problems such as homelessness and poverty. In 1977 Bestor and his family joined 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. 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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