Kurt Bestor

Biography

Kurt Bestor is a composer best known for his Christmas Albums including 1988: Joyspring, 1989: Seasons, 1990: Joyspring II, 1993: Innovators 1994: Evening Angels, 1996: Timpanogos - A Prayer for Mountain Grace / Utah: 5 Sacred Lessons, 1997: Sketches, 1998: Fathers, 1999: The Dance, 2002: Innovators II, 2005: A Life (ep), 2014: Outside the Lines He also composed soundtrack scores including the English dub 1991: The Seventh Brother, 1992: Split Infinity, 1992: The Buttercream Gang, 1993: Rigoletto, 1993: The Buttercream Gang in Secret of Treasure Mountain, 1995: Behind the Waterfall, 1995: Unspoken Song - A Celebration of 100 Years of Utah Spirit (with Sam Cardon), 1995: UTAH - Musical Spectacular (with Sam Cardon), 1998: Sedona - Spirit of Wonder, 1998: No More Baths, 1998: The Ghost of Dickens past, 1999: New Testament soundtrack, 1999: Book of Mormon soundtrack, 1999: Doctrine and Covenants soundtrack, 2000: The Scarecrow, 2000: The Lamb of God / Passion of the Lamb, 2001: Saints of the Seas, 2008" The Great American West Kurt Bestor took piano lessons from his mother. After listening to John Williams soundtrack score to Jaws he became inspired to play music as a career. Later on he began work as a Trumpet player in Orem Utah and went to BYU college in Provo Utah to study music. He composed music for the Utah Commercial jingle ads.