Peter H. Bloom, flute, alto flute, bass flute and piccolo, concertizes in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand; appears on 40 recordings (Sony Classical, Dorian, Leo Records, other labels); and has given workshops, master classes and lecture-demos across the globe. He is a faculty member of the Snow Pond Composers Workshop; is contributing editor for Noteworthy Sheet Music; serves as historical performance consultant to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston; and is a winner of the American Musicological Society’s Noah Greenberg Award. His career encompasses diverse chamber music from the Renaissance to the 21st century, as well as jazz standards, blues, bebop, free improvisation, and the avant-garde.
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A champion of new music, Mr. Bloom collaborates extensively with composers and has given premieres of works by Richard Nelson, Mark Harvey, Elizabeth Vercoe, Elliott Schwartz, Edward Jacobs, Narong Prangcharoen, Karl Henning, Pamela Marshall, Tim O'Dell, Marianela Maduro, Len Detlor,Joseph Fear, Peter Aldins, Richard Cornell, John Felice, Paul Brust, Matt Samolis, and others. Original compositions, including numerous works written for him, have been a vital part of his concert tours for more than three decades, across forty states and four continents. He has performed in festivals and series for adventurous music, including the Back Cove Contemporary Music Festival, the Autumn Uprising Festival of New Music, Todd Brunel’s Vortex Series for New and Improvised Music, the Ninth Ear Composers Collective, Boston's Church of the Advent Library Concert Series, Composers in Red Sneakers, and Open Sound, among others.
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Mr. Bloom is a noted interpreter of early music, and has given period-instrument concerts in the United States, Canada and Europe, appearing chiefly with Ensemble Chaconne (founded in 1985). He has performed with the group at the National Gallery in London, Atlanta’s famed Spivey Hall, the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park Florida, Connecticut Early Music Festival, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s residency at Davidson College, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the 30th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum (Plymouth, NH), and the 40th Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, among others. Read about Ensemble Chaconne.
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Mr. Bloom’s career in jazz encompasses jazz standards, blues, bebop, free improvisation, and the avant-garde. He has appeared with such jazz luminaries as Charles Neville, Jaki Byard, Sheila Jordan, Geri Allen, Taylor Ho Bynum, Walter Thompson, Raj Mehta, Mark Harvey and others.
A 38-year veteran with the internationally acclaimed Aardvark Jazz Orchestra (“a bracing walk on the wild side of the big band spectrum” JazzTimes), Bloom has performed with the band at hundreds of venues and appears on fourteen Aardvark CDs, including eight discs on Leo Records, one of the world’s leading adventuresome music labels. With members of Aardvark, he recorded improvised music for the National Film Preservation Foundation’s DVD series Treasures from the American Film Archives, which The New York Times called “one of the best sets of the year.” Peter H. Bloom can be heard on the newly released Compilation CD and Book: The Boston Creative Jazz Scene 1970 - 1983 (Cultures of Soul, 2016), including Mark Harvey’s essay on the history of the 1970s avant-garde jazz scene in Boston, plus recordings of the Mark Harvey Group (with Bloom on woodwinds) and other groups of the period. |