Flutist Peter H. Bloom to perform world premieres by Karl Henning and Mark Harvey, April 2014

BOSTON - April 6, 2014 - PRLog -- Peter H. Bloom (flutes/saxophones), acclaimed as a champion of new music, will perform with the Karl Henning Ensemble, King’s Chapel Boston, April 15 at 12:15 pm (featuring the world premiere of Henning’s Dysfunction & Outright Extortion, Op.120), and with the legendary Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, MIT Kresge Auditorium, Cambridge, April 26 at 8:00 pm (two premieres by Mark Harvey: Commemoration, for victims and survivors of the Boston Marathon tragedy, and Spaceways, for Sun Ra’s centennial).

Boston’s King’s Chapel Tuesday Recitals series presents The Karl Henning Ensemble (Peter H. Bloom, flutes, baritone saxophone; Dan Meyers, frame drum; Charles Turner, double-bass; Karl Henning, clarinet)  on Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at 12:15 pm at King’s Chapel, Tremont and School Streets, Boston, MA 02111 (free will donation; information 617 227 2155).  The program will include the world premiere of Henning’s Dysfunction & Outright Extortion, Op.120 (2014); Henning’s 2011 composition:  How to Tell (Chasing the Tail of Nothing), Op.103, and two works (2013) by Charles Turner:  Send Me an Angel and Dance with an Angel.

On Saturday, April 26, 2014, at 8:00 pm, the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra will continue its historic 41^st season with a concert called Commemoration and Celebration, featuring premieres and recent works by Aardvark founder and music director Mark Harvey, at MIT, Kresge Auditorium, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139 (Free Admission.   Information:  617-452-3205).  Praised for “spirited composition and inspired playing” (Jazz Alchemist, Poland), Aardvark will perform two world premieres by Mark Harvey:  Commemoration (Boston 2013), a tribute to the victims and survivors of the Boston Marathon tragedy, and Spaceways, a celebration of Sun Ra in his centennial year. Also on tap: Harvey’s No Walls, selected as the official song for JazzBoston’s Jazz Week (April 21-30, 2014).  The concert is presented by MIT Music and Theater Arts, in conjunction with JazzBoston’s Jazz Week and the Smithsonian Institution’s observance of April as National Jazz Appreciation Month.

Aardvark is: Arni Cheatham, Peter Bloom, Phil Scarff, Chris Rakowski, Dan Zupan/saxes and woodwinds; K.C. Dunbar, Jeanne Snodgrass/trumpets; Bob Pilkington, Jay Keyser/trombones; Jeff Marsanskis, Bill Lowe/bass trombones, tuba; Richard Nelson/guitar; John Funkhouser/string bass; Harry Wellott/drums; Jerry Edwards and Grace Hughes, vocalists; Mark Harvey/trumpet, music director.

Peter H. Bloom, flutes and saxophones, whose playing has been called “a revelation for unforced sweetness and strength” (The Boston Globe), performs diverse chamber music from period-instrument concerts to premieres of new music. He is also a noted jazz artist, praised for “exquisite melody” (JazzImprov) and “hip, jazzy flute work” (allaboutjazz.com).  He concertizes in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand; is featured on 40 recordings (Sony Classical, Dorian, Newport Classic, Leo Records, and other labels); and is a winner of the American Musicological Society’s Noah Greenberg Award.  He has given lectures, workshops and master classes across the globe on such wide-ranging topics as contemporary music, improvisation, exploratory jazz, historical performance and masterworks of the classical flute literature.

A champion of new music, Mr. Bloom collaborates extensively with composers and has given premieres of works by Richard Nelson, Mark Harvey, Elizabeth Vercoe, Peter Aldins, Richard Cornell, John Felice, Paul Brust, Narong Prangcharoen, Marianela Maduro, Len Detlor, Karl Henning, Pamela Marshall, Joseph Fear, Charles Turner, 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 numerous 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, Composers in Red Sneakers, and Underground Composers, among others.  In a collaboration spanning 20 years, Peter Bloom and pianist/harpist Mary Jane Rupert (the duo “2”) have toured the United States, New Zealand, Australia, and Thailand,  performing recent works by U.S, New Zealand and Thai composers.

Mr. Bloom’s career in jazz encompasses free improvisation, jazz standards, blues, bebop and the avant-garde.  He has appeared with Charles Neville, Jaki Byard, Sheila Jordan, Geri Allen, Taylor Ho Bynum, Walter Thompson, Raj Mehta, Mark Harvey and other notables.  A 37-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 at hundreds of venues and appears on eleven Aardvark CDs, including six 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, renaissance and baroque flutes, 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 (28^th season, praised for “vitality and character, style and verve” – MusicWeb International). He has served as historical performance consultant to The American Museum in Britain, The New-York Historical Society, The American Antiquarian Society and Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (25 years), where he has given numerous lecture-demonstrations and recorded for the audio guide to historical woodwinds.

Mr. Bloom is a Board member of the James Pappoutsakis Flute Competition and serves as contributing editor for Noteworthy Sheet Music.  www.noteworthysheetmusic.com   His arrangements and compositions are available on the NSM website.  Peter H. Bloom is managed exclusively by Americas Musicworks, Rebecca DeLamotte, Managing Director, telephone 617-776-8778; email:  delamotte-amw@comcast.net  and visit: www.americasmusicworks.com