Noted flutist Peter H. Bloom to perform masterworks and jazz standards in New England and New York

SOMERVILLE, Mass. - Nov. 3, 2017 - PRLog -- Flutist Peter H. Bloom, who tours the globe with diverse ensembles, will give wide-ranging concerts in New York and New England during the month of November, from early music to classical masterworks to jazz, blues and bebop.

On November 5, 2017 at 4 pm, Ensemble Chaconne (Peter H. Bloom, baroque flute; Carol Lewis, viola da gamba; Olav Chris Henriksen, baroque lute and English guitar) will perform at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury MA, featuring gems by Handel, Vivaldi, J.C. Bach and other baroque masters.

On November 6, 2017 at 7:00 pm, the Bloom/Leighton Duo (Peter H. Bloom, flute and Mark Leighton, guitar) will appear at the Plymouth Public Library in an up-tempo show of Blues, Ballads and Bebop.

On November 16, 2017 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston will showcase its stellar musical instrument collection with performances in multiple galleries.  Peter H. Bloom will perform on the Museum's crystal flute by Claude Laurent, with and Olav Chris Henriksen on 19^th century guitar, in Gallery 251 (19^th Century Paintings).

On November 18, 2017 at 7:30 pm, Ensemble Chaconne (Peter H. Bloom, baroque flute; Carol Lewis, viola da gamba; and Olav Chris Henriksen, baroque lute and English guitar) will perform masterpieces by Handel, Vivaldi, Giardini, Carl Friedrich Abel, Johann Christian Fisher and other 18^th century composers at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 85 Chestnut Street, Albany, NY 122210.

Ensemble Chaconne will repeat the baroque masters program in the Stamford Friends of Chamber Music Series on Sunday, November 19, 2017 at 3:00 pm, Stamford United Methodist Church, 88 Main Street, Stamford, NY 12167.

Peter H. Bloom (flute, alto flute, bass flute, piccolo) concertizes in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand; is featured on more than 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; 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."

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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, Ensemble Chaconne, 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.

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, Beth Wiemann, Adrian Childs, Richard Cornell, Karl Henning, Pamela Marshall, Narong Prangcharoen, Tim O'Dell, David Owens, Peter Aldins, Marianela Maduro, Len Detlor, 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 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 (founding member, 1985). The ensemble has been praised for "vitality and character, style and verve" (MusicWeb International).  One of the group's signature concerts is Music of Shakespeare's Plays.  Listen to Ensemble Chaconne's Shakespeare music here:

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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 with the band at hundreds of venues and appears on 14 Aardvark CDs, including eight 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.