Kris Bowers

What impresses me most about Kris Bowers is how a jazz pianist's instinct for improvisation seeps into everything he scores, from Green Book to the lush strings of Bridgerton. He never lets a cue feel mechanical; the emotion arrives before the image does. And he refuses to stay in one lane: not content with composing, he stepped behind the camera and walked away with an Academy Award for a documentary short. Born in 1989 in Los Angeles, he is still early in what feels like a long arc. I see a rare double talent, and I genuinely look forward to where he takes both his music and his films next.

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Name (English)

Kris Bowers

Name (Japanese)

クリス・バワーズ

Reading

くりす・ばわーず

Born

April 5, 1989 (age 37)

Origin

Los Angeles, California, United States

Occupation

jazz musician / pianist / film score composer / film director / composer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Snake

Awards & achievements

• 2024 Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)

• Official sitehttps://www.krisbowers.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/krisbowersmusic/
• Xhttps://x.com/krisbowersmusic
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris%20Bowers
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19668232

Tags

• California
• jazz musician
• pianist
• film score composer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.