Noted flutist Peter H. Bloom to perform on rare historical flutes at Museum of Fine Arts Boston

SOMERVILLE, Mass. - July 27, 2018 - PRLog -- On August 6, 2018 at 11:00 am, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston will present a lecture-recital by Peter H. Bloom, showcasing 19^th century flutes from the Museum's collection, particularly a Parisian example from about 1856, produced by the celebrated maker Vincent Hypolite Godfroy. Bloom will also perform on other instruments by the famous makers of 19^th-century Paris (Claire Godfroy aine and Louis Esprit Lot).

The recital will be held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – Musical Instrument Gallery (Gallery 103), 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115.  Free with museum admission.  Limited seating:  first come, first served.

Peter H. Bloom (flute, alto flute, bass flute, piccolo) concertizes in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand; is featured on 45 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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As a specialist in historical flutes, Mr. Bloom has given lecture-recitals for Animusic Portugal (Braga), 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.

In addition to wide-ranging lecture-demonstrations on historical flutes, Mr. Bloom has given period-instrument concerts in the United States, Canada and Europe, appearing in solo recitals and with Ensemble Chaconne (founding member, 1985). Ensemble Chaconne has been praised for "vitality and character, style and verve" (MusicWeb International).  The group's concert Music of Shakespeare's Plays has been hailed as "the perfect Elizabethan evening" (The Portland Press Herald), and can be heard on the CD of the same name, available from Noteworthy Sheet Music.

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, Edward Jacobs, 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, 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 40-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 all of Aardvark's 15 CDs, including 9 discs on Leo Records, one of the world's leading adventuresome music  labels.

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