Acclaimed flutist Peter H. Bloom to perform new music premieres, masterworks and jazz standards

BOSTON - May 29, 2016 - PRLog -- Flutist Peter H. Bloom, who performs across the globe and is known as a champion of new music, continues his role as artist-in-residence on the faculty of the Snow Pond Composers Workshop, directed by Richard Nelson and Ed Jacobs, as the Workshop convenes from June 8 through 12 in Sidney Maine.  Mr. Bloom and other faculty artists (Chris Gross cello and Wren Saunders bassoon) will coach graduate and undergraduate composers and will perform premieres of multiple new works written for the occasion.

Peter H. Bloom will give numerous performances in the Summer 2016, including premieres of works by Karl Henning on June 21 at King's Chapel Boston; chamber music with Ensemble Aubade (flute, viola and harp featuring music by Debussy and Ravel) on July 17 at 10:00 am at Grace Church Rutland Vermont, and July 17 at 4:00 pm in the Sundays on the Hill Concert Series, Weston VT; and shows with the Modernistics (flute, guitar, jazz vocals and tap dance - music from the Great American Songbook) at the Medallion Opera House Gorham NH (August 4 at 7:00 pm); at the Tillotson Center Colebrook NH (August 5 at 7:00 pm); and at the West Claremont (NH) Center for the Arts on August 6 at 7:00 pm.  In September, Peter H. Bloom will join the renowned mezzo-soprano D'Anna Fortunato with Thomas Hill, clarinet, and Mary Jane Rupert, piano, to perform Music by Maine Composers at U Maine Orono and U Maine Augusta, featuring works by Richard Nelson, Beth Wiemann, Elliott Schwartz, Michael Viens, Elizabeth Vercoe and others.

In the June 2016 Snow Pond Composers Workshop, one of the sessions will feature a reading of Ablaze She Came in the Dream by Peter H. Bloom.  The piece, originally for flute, viola and guitar, received its premiere at Church of the Advent Boston in November 2014.  Mr. Bloom's new arrangement for flute, cello and guitar will receive its first reading at Snow Pond with cellist Chris Gross and guitarist Richard Nelson joining Mr. Bloom.  Ablaze is published by Noteworthy Sheet Music.https://www.noteworthysheetmusic.com/sheet-music/ensemble...

Peter H. Bloom (flute, alto flute, bass flute, piccolo) concertizes in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand; appears on 40 recordings; 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.  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."

An active recitalist and chamber musician, Mr. Bloom tours with the Ensemble Aubade, the Duo "2" (with pianist/harpist Mary Jane Rupert), mezzo-soprano D'Anna Fortunato, the Olmsted Ensemble 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 (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.

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).  Ensemble Chaconne will be performing Music of Shakespeare's Plays throughout 2016 as part of the global celebration of the 400^th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. Listen to Ensemble Chaconne's Shakespeare music here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ensemblechaconne

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, Richard Cornell, Karl Henning, Pamela Marshall, Narong Prangcharoen, Tim O'Dell, David Owens, Peter Aldins, John Felice, Paul Brust, Marianela Maduro, Len Detlor, 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.

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 at hundreds of venues and appears on 13 Aardvark CDs, including seven discs on Leo Records, one of the world's leading adventuresome music  labels.

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