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bloch.jpgThomas Bloch, born 1962 in Colmar, France, is acknowledged as one of the best specialist in the rare instruments he plays: the glass harmonica, the ondes Martenot and the cristal Baschet. He has so far given over 2500 performances in 30 countries and taken part in more than 80 recordings all over the world. His performances range from classical and contemporary music to songs, jazz, rock, theatre music, film music and ballet music, sometimes as the interpreter, at other times as the composer.
Thomas Bloch has appeared in well known movies, with musicians of the greatest distinction in major musical centres and is a member of various ensembles: Milos Forman Amadeus movie (long version 2001), John Carpenter Vampires, english rock band Radiohead, on tour with Tom Waits, Bob Wilson and Marianne Faithfull in The Black Rider, with John Cage, Paul Sacher, Marcel Landowski, Michel Plasson, Myung-Whun Chung, Manfred Honeck, Arturo Tamayo, Dennis Russel-Davies, Jean Fournet, Antoni Wit, Marc Grauwels, Maurice Bourgue, Manu Dibango, Lara Fabian, as a soloist in Milano Scala, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, for the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra centenary, in Paris, New York, Tokyo, London, Brussels, Budapest, Praga, Geneva, Mexico City, Bogota, Madrid, Bonn, Lisbon, Helsinki, Stockholm, Boston, Sydney, London, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Montreal. Los Angeles.
He teaches ondes Martenot at the Strasbourg Conservatoire since 1992, is responsible for presentations of instruments at the Paris Musée de la Musique and is a musical director for music publishers, for the Evian Music Festival, the Marbach Abbey Festival, for some Festivals in Paris Cité de la Musique (France) and for the Glass Music International Festival (Europe - USA). Now, he prepares among others a project with the comedian Isabelle Huppert and another one with the soprano Natalie Dessay in Paris opera.
Thomas Bloch was the recipient of some fifteen Conservatoire awards, at Colmar, Strasbourg including a First Prize for ondes Martenot at the Paris Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique (with Jeanne Loriod). He obtained a Master's Degree in Musicology at the University of Strasbourg, was awarded by critics in several music magazines and also in international composition competitions. Among others, he won the 'Classical Music Award 2002' given by European critics in Cannes Midem, 'Victoire de la Musique' and 'Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros', four times best soundtrack during 'World subaquatic movies Festival' in Antibes, 'The Choice' of Gramophon, 'Best of the Year 2001' in Audiophile, 'Choc' in 'Monde de la Musique' for his Messiaen.
He has recorded for Columbia, EMI, Erato, Deutsche Grammophon, Harmonia Mundi, Philips, RCA, Sony Classical, Toshiba. Since 1998, he is in contract with Naxos and has recorded Music for Glass Harmonica, Music for Ondes Martenot, Olivier Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie, Classical Chill, Classical Heat and Mozart: Life and Works.
In 2006 and 2007, Naxos will publish two new CDs: his own composition, Missa Cantate for male soprano (Jörg Waschinski) and symphony orchestra which is already used during TV and radio programs and a best seller on his own label in several countries and Varese Ecuatorial.