World premieres of works by noted flutist Peter H. Bloom, Nov 21 at Boston’s Church of the Advent

BOSTON - Nov. 15, 2014 - PRLog -- The Church of the Advent Library Concert Series, known for its stellar contemporary music concerts, presents the acclaimed flutist Peter H. Bloom and Friends, performing world premieres of works by Bloom and Stephen Stanziano on Friday, November 21, 2014 at 8:00 pm, Church of the Advent, 30 Brimmer Street, Boston, MA 02108-1098.  Donation $10. For information, visit: http://shoebei.wordpress.com/ or email shoe4@verizon.net  or call 617 776 8778.  The Advent Library Series is curated by Matt Samolis.

Peter H. Bloom (concert flute, bass flute); Dan Zupan (alto flute, bass clarinet); Matt Samolis, flute; Francis Grimes, viola; and Anastasiya Dumma, electric guitar will perform Four at the Fore, a tetrad of new works, including: Love Cries, Love Survives (world premiere) by Stephen Stanziano (flute, alto flute, bass flute); SPEAK by Peter H. Bloom (flute, alto flute, bass flute); Ablaze, She Came in the Dream (world premiere) by Peter H. Bloom (flute, viola, electric guitar); and In the Till (world premiere) by Peter H. Bloom (flute, bass clarinet, electric guitar).

In addition,  the November 21 show will include a performance by the Eric Hofbauer Quintet (Eric Hofbauer, guitar; Todd Brunell, clarinets; Jerry Sabtini, trumpet; Junko Fujiwara, cello; Curt Newton, percussion), as the group celebrates the release of their new CD, Quintet for the End of Time.

Peter H. Bloom, flutist, 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.  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, historical performance, and exploratory jazz.

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, Matt Samolis, David Owens 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, 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 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 in hundreds of Aardvark show and appears on 12 Aardvark CDs, including seven 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.”

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 (29^th season, praised for “vitality and character, style and verve” – MusicWeb International). Ensemble Chaconne’s acclaimed CD, featuring Music of Shakespeare’s Plays is available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ensemblechaconne   Bloom 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 served for 10 years as Board member of the James Pappoutsakis Flute Competition. He is a contributing editor for Noteworthy Sheet Music.  His arrangements and compositions are available on the NSM website,

Peter H. Bloom is managed exclusively by Americas Musicworks, Rebecca DeLamotte, Managing Director, 29 Newbury Street, Somerville, MA 02144-2442 USA, Telephone 617-776-8778  or  888-887-7169, email:

delamotte-amw@comcast.net  and http://phbloom.home.comcast.net/~phbloom/