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Artist Biography For Thomas Bloch

Thomas Bloch Born 1962 In Colmar France Is A Classical Musician Specializing In The Rare Instruments Ondes Martenot Glass Harmonica And Cristal Baschet. Receiving A First Prize For Ondes Martenot At The Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur De Musique With Jeanne Loriod And A Masters Degree In Musicology At The University Of Strasbourg Bloch Has Performed Over 2500 Times And Appeared On Over Eighty Recordings. Citation Needed Notable Collaborations Concerts Or Recordings Include Radiohead John Cage Damon Albarn / Gorillaz And Tom Waits / Marianne Faithfull / Bob Wilson. Thomas Bloch Currently Lives In Paris France. He Is Acknowledged As An Expert By Whom? In The Following Rare Instruments The Glass Harmonica The Ondes Martenot And The Cristal Baschet. Citation Needed He Has Given Thousands Of Performances In Forty Countries And Taken Part In More Than Eighty Recordings All Over The World. He Performs In Genres That Span Classical Contemporary Jazz Rock Ballet World Music Theatre And Film Score/soundtrack. He Is Sometimes The Interpreter And Other Times The The Composer. As A Soloist Of Rare Instruments He Plays The Complete Classical And Modern Repertoire Messiaen Varese Honegger Bussotti Mozart Donizetti Hasse C.P.E. Bach Beethoven Richard Strauss ... And Also Ten To Fifteen Premieres From Contemporary Music Each Year Michel Redolfi Regis Campo Etienne Rolin Bernard Wisson Jan Erik Mikalsen... And Popular Music Composers Jonny Greenwood Damon Albarn... . He Also Performs In Many Recording Sessions. Thomas Bloch And Cristal Baschet 1992 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 France And For The Glass Music International Festival 2005 In Paris Cité De La Musique France . 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 Supérieur De Musique With Jeanne Loriod . He Obtained A Master’s Degree In Musicology At The University Of Strasbourg Where He Was Among Others Studied With Marc Honegger Was Awarded By Critics In Several Music Magazines And Also In International Composition Competitions. Among Others He Won The Classical Music Award 200 Given By European Critics In Cannes Midem Victoires De La Musique And Prix De L'Académie Charles Cros Four Times Best Soundtrack During The World Subaquatic Movies Festival In Antibes The Choice Of Gramophon Best Of The Year 2001 In Audiophile Choc In Le Monde De La Musique For His Interpretation Of The Turangalîla-Symphonie By Messiaen... He Has Recorded For Columbia EMI Erato Deutsche Grammophon Harmonia Mundi Philips RCA Sony Classical Toshiba... Since 1998 He Records For Naxos Music For Glass Harmonica 8.555295 Music For Ondes Martenot 8.555779 Olivier Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie 8.554478-79 Classical Chill 8.520101 Classical Heat 8.520102 Mozart Life And Works 8.558061-64 Ecuatorial By Edgard Varese Missa Cantate By Thomas Bloch...

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