Christopher Bear

Christopher Robert Bear is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer. He is best known as a member of the Brooklyn-based indie-rock group Grizzly Bear, with whom he has recorded five studio albums. In 2025, Bear joined Dirty Projectors, recording a trio-based studio album with founding member Dave Longstreth and bassist Karl McComas-Reichl. Bear joined Grizzly Bear with singer Ed Droste for contributions on their first record, Horn of Plenty. He also contributed to Earl Greyhound's self-titled EP in 2004. Bear worked with fellow Grizzly Bear bandmates Daniel Rossen and Chris Taylor on Rossen's project Department of Eagles, contributing drums to their second album, In Ear Park. In addition to his continuing work with Grizzly Bear, Bear was briefly a member of Dirty Projectors, whom he rejoined in 2025 to record a studio album and tour. Bear continues developing his independent career most recently working on arranging soundtracks for the HBO series High Maintenance. Bear has also performed live and recorded drums with the band Beach House, and contributed drums and percussion on 9 out of 15 tracks on the 2020 album Shore by Fleet Foxes. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christo...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)