Distinguished flutist Peter H. Bloom to perform diverse chamber music and jazz concerts April 2016

BOSTON - March 28, 2016 - PRLog -- Flutist Peter H. Bloom, whose playing has been called "a revelation for unforced sweetness and strength," (The Boston Globe), will continue his wide-ranging concert performances in April 2016.  Upcoming events include:

April 3, 2016 at 4 pm with Ensemble Aubade (flute, viola and harp) in the Gould Barn Concert Series, 1 Howlett St, Topsfield, MA, featuring the magnificent Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp by Claude Debussy

April 12, 2016 at 7 pm with Ensemble Chaconne performing music by Handel, Vivaldi and others on baroque instruments at Concordia College, Bronxville NY;

April 16 at 8 pm with the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra performing new works by Mark Harvey at MIT Kresge Auditorium, Cambridge, MA, as Aardvark celebrates the release of its latest CD Passages (Leo Records)

April 17, 2016 at 4 pm with D'Anna Fortunato, mezzo-soprano and Mary Jane Rupert, piano performing vocal chamber works by Mozart, Ravel, Schubert and others at All Souls Church, Bangor, ME;

April 18, 2016 at 4 pm with Fortunato and Rupert at U Maine Orono Minsky Recital Hall in Orono ME;

April 20, 2016 at 7 pm, performing Music of Shakespeare's Plays with Ensemble Chaconne at Saint Anselm College, Manchester NH

April 30, 2016 at 12 noon with Ensemble Aubade (flute, viola and harp) celebrating the centennial of the Needham Public Library (1139 Highland Avenue, Needham, MA 02494) with chamber music by Debussy, Ravel and others.

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 (Leo Records, 9Winds, Sony Classical, Dorian, 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; serves as contributing editor for Noteworthy Sheet Music; and is a winner of the American Musicological Society's Noah Greenberg Award.   His career encompasses exploratory jazz, new and improvised music, jazz standards, blues, bebop, and diverse chamber music from the Renaissance to the 21^st century.    The Boston Globe called his playing "a revelation for unforced sweetness and strength," while Jazz Improv hailed his "exquisite melody…the improvisations growing organically out of the theme" and ArtsFuse wrote, "His solos on flute and amplified flute are always highlights of a performance."   Bloom has performed with the internationally acclaimed Aardvark Jazz Orchestra for almost 40 years.

An active recitalist and chamber musician, Mr. Bloom tours with the Olmsted Ensemble, the Duo "2" (with pianist/harpist Mary Jane Rupert), mezzo-soprano D'Anna Fortunato, and others, and has performed for Animusic Portugal (Braga), The National Gallery in London, New Zealand School of Music in Wellington, University of Canberra College of Music (Australia), Payap University in Chiang Mai, Goethe Institute in Bangkok,  University of Canterbury in Christchurch NZ, Mahidol University (Salaya, Thailand), The National Gallery of Art (Washington DC), The Metropolitan Museum, The Yale Center for British Art, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, and at colleges and universities across the United States.

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, Peter Aldins, Richard Cornell, John Felice, Paul Brust, Narong Prangcharoen, Tim O'Dell, Marianela Maduro, Len Detlor, Karl Henning, Pamela Marshall, Joseph Fear, 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.  Compositions and arrangements by Peter H. Bloom are published by Noteworthy Sheet Music. http://www.noteworthysheetmusic.com

Peter H. 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 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."

Mr. Bloom is a noted interpreter of early music, and has given period-instrument concerts in the United States, Canada and Europe, appearing in solo recitals and with Ensemble Chaconne (30^th season, praised for "vitality and character, style and verve" - MusicWeb International).  Mr. Bloom has given lecture-demonstrations on historical flutes for Animusic Portugal, The New York Flute Club, The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Flute Club of New York, The American Musical Instrument Society, The National Flute Association, Early Music Boulder, Historic Macon (Georgia) and others, and has curated period-instrument recordings for The New York Historical Society, The American Museum of Britain (Bath, UK), and the American Antiquarian Society.  He serves as historical instrument consultant to The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, where he has performed extensively and recorded for the audio guide to woodwinds.  He is author of the Alfred G. Badger entry in the Lexikon der Flöte.

Peter H. Bloom is managed exclusively by Americas Musicworks, Rebecca DeLamotte, director, telephone 617 776 8778 or email delamotte-amw at comcast dot net.
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