Peter H. Bloom, flute, alto flute, bass flute and piccolo, concertizes in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand; appears on 48 recordings (Sony Classical, Dorian, Leo Records, other labels); and has given workshops, master classes and lecture-demonstrations across the globe. He serves as contributing editor for Noteworthy Sheet Music; 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. |
A champion of new music, Mr. Bloom collaborates extensively with composers and has given premieres of works by Mark Harvey, Elizabeth Vercoe, Elliott Schwartz, Narong Prangcharoen, Karl Henning, Pamela Marshall, Richard Nelson, Edward Jacobs, Marianela Maduro, Len Detlor, Peter Aldins, Richard Cornell, John Felice, Timothy Bowlby, 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 (founding member, 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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Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Bloom performing on crystal flute (1837) by the French maker Claude Laurent
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Bloom’s career in jazz encompasses standards, blues, bebop, free improvisation, and the avant-garde. He has appeared with jazz luminaries Charles Neville, Jaki Byard, Sheila Jordan, Geri Allen, Ricky Ford, Walter Thompson, Raj Mehta, Mark Harvey, other luminaries. He is a founding member of The Modernistics, and leads his own groups with pianist John Funkhouser, guitarist Mark Leighton, bassist Dave Zox, and other notables.
Bloom's latest CD, Exuberant Ellingtonia with pianist John Funkhouser, has been called "one of those albums that we know are unique jewels" (Jazz, ese ruido, Spain) and "excellent music, performed with verve and sophistication" (AllAboutJazz.com). A 45-year veteran with the internationally acclaimed Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, Bloom has performed with the band at hundreds of venues and appears on all of Aardvark's sixteen CDs, including ten 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.” Bloom is featured on A Rite for All Souls, a two-CD set presenting a long lost recording of The Mark Harvey Group from 1971. Visit: Mark Harvey Group . |