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 musician performer of rare instruments "Thomas Bloch is unquestionnably a virtuoso and a musician" The New York Times GLASS HARMONICA ONDES MARTENOT CRISTAL BASCHET NEW ! WATERPHONE - THEREMIN CELLO |
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musician performer of rare instruments "Thomas Bloch is unquestionnably a virtuoso and a musician" The New York Times GLASS HARMONICA ONDES MARTENOT CRISTAL BASCHET NEW ! WATERPHONE - THEREMIN CELLO |
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Recital (details below), orchestra (details below), chamber music (details below),
recording sessions, theater music, film music, advertising, pop music,
creations, improvisation, songs, ballet music, jazz, rock, world music,
concert / lectures in schools, universities and music academies,
masterclasses, artistic direction of festivals, Erik Satie's Vexations (a 24 hours’ non-stop performance alone at the piano)...
For any request or further information, please write to Thomas Bloch RECITAL RARE INSTRUMENTS Original
works from the 18th century to today with one or several of the rare
instruments played solo by Thomas Bloch (glass harmonica, ondes
Martenot, crystal Baschet,...) : solo recitals, lectures / concerts,
presentation of the instruments in schools, private events for
companies... Some recent works may use a playback for pre-recorded
electronic parts.
. ORCHESTRA (chamber, sinfonietta, symphony) SOLOIST - SOLO - TUTTI Baroque, classical, contemporary repertoires Creation of
new works, baroque and classical repertoires with the 430 Hz glass
harmonica or the 442 Hz glass harmonica (Mozart, Beethoven, Hasse, CPE
Bach, Donizetti, R. Strauss...) and also 20th and 21st centuries
repertoires with ondes Martenot and cristal Baschet (Messiaen, Varese,
Honegger, Hindemith, Landowski, Bussotti, Scelci, Greenwood...).
CHAMBER MUSIC CRYSTAL VOICE and GLASS INSTRUMENTS A duet
unique in the world ! A sopranist (male soprano) and glass instruments
: Patrick Husson and Thomas Bloch. The latter can also play the piano
or the organ besides his glass instruments in order to extend the
repertoire. There are about a dozen male sopranos in the world. They
are probably the closest heirs to the castrati and Farinelli. Works
from the baroque period to today : Mozart, Pergolesi, Broschi,
Monteverdi, Haendel, Verdi, Fauré, Bloch, Gorecki, Gershwin...
Some recent works may use a playback for pre-recorded electronic parts.
JEAN-FRANCOIS ZYGEL'S WONDERFUL CABARET Variable-geometry
ensemble around Jean-François Zygel, from the Zygel - Bloch duet
(piano, celesta, glockenspiel and rare instruments) to a dozen
musicians. Many options are offered with other members of the ensemble,
among which two bird singers (Jean Boucault and Johnny Rasse), a
juggler / dancer (Jive), a percussionist (Joel Grare), a clarinetist
(Philippe Berrod), a cellist (Salque François), a snake player
(Michel Godard ), a saxophonist (Philippe Geiss), one voice or
more (Robert Expert, Isabelle Poinloup, Laurent Alvaro ...),
offering a wonderful cabaret, an improvisation concert, accompaniment of silent movies (Nosferatu by Murnau )....
MAGIC LANTERNS / PHANTASMAGORIA and LIGHT PROJECTIONS It is the only pre-cinema performance in Europe who, by means of a scenario including all the major themes of
Phantasmagoria shows how
was its practice in the late 18th century and
in the 19th century. The magic lantern (the one used was made in 1880)
and moving hand painted glass plates (from the late 18th and 19th
centuries) gives life to evil beings who
start disturbing the life of a charming little village. Ghosts,
witches, devils, the Apocalypse horsemen and the famous
blood-covered nun carry us away into the kingdom of darkness and fear.
The projections of such films were usually accompanied by the glass harmonica, the nail violin (also called nail Harmonica, an ancestor of the waterphone) and various instruments used for sound illustration. According to Jefferson, "the
melodious sounds of Benjamin Franklin's Harmonica contribute powerfully
to the effects of phantasmagoria, by preparing not only the minds but
all the senses as well for strange impressions".
HARP and GLASS ARMONICA and/or ONDES MARTENOT A unique
duet with a young harpist who is considered as pushing the limits of
his instrument, plays along with a cousin of the glass harp.
Works from the 18th century to today, solo and duet : Mozart,
Beethoven, Wagner / Liszt, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Fauré,
Hindemith, Messiaen, Bacri, Hersant, Redolfi ... Some recent works may
use electronics. You can choose to hear the classical harp, or the
triple harp (barock) - together with the glass harmonica in 430 -, or
the celtic harp, or the electro-acoustic harp.
Visit Pauline Haas website here.
ACCORDION and RARE INSTRUMENTS A unique
duet with the very first laureate of the recent accordion class in
Paris Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique. Works from the
18th century to today and to jazz, solo and duets : Mozart,
Fauré, Messiaen, Piazzolla, E. Bloch, Rachmaninov, Cavanna,
Dubugnon... Some recent works may use a playback for pre-recorded
electronic parts.
RARE INSTRUMENTS and PIANO Works from
the 18th century to today and jazz, solos and duets. Works for the
piano (original works and arrangements of works originally meant for
instrumental ensembles) by Mozart, Reichardt, Sombach, Benjamin
Franklin, CPE Bach, Fauré, Messiaen, Murail, Wisson, Jolivet,
Bloch, improvisations... It is possible to play with a pianist
Thomas Bloch
generally works with or with a musician you'll choose. Some recent
works may use a playback for pre-recorded electronic parts.
GLASS ORGAN and CHURCH ORGAN and/or ONDES MARTENOT Paganini named the glass harmonica : "an angel organ". It was also sometimes called glass organ.
So, the idea of mixing both kinds of organs seemed an evidence. Mozart,
Reichardt, Benjamin Franklin, Hasse, CPE Bach, Mendelssohn, JS Bach ...
and also the large repertoires for the organ and for the
glassharmonica, each played by itself, in a classical and / or
contemporary repertoire. It is also possible to use ondes Martenot with
the glass organ or separately. Some recent works may use a playback for pre-recorded electronic parts.
Visit Yves Rechsteiner's website here.
FLUTES and GLASSHARMONICA Original
works from the 18th century to today with the best-known and most
inventive Belgian flutist : from Mozart to Piazzolla (who composed his
famous Story of the Tango for Marc Grauwels). Some recent works may use a playback for pre-recorded electronic parts.
Visit Marc Grauwels website here.
BARYTONE VIOLIN and GLASS ARMONICA The Barytone-violin sounds very
much like the viola and the cello put together. It is even rarer than
the glass harmonica. Jacques Dupriez plays the only one known today. It
was invented centuries ago and was considered as the ideal instrument
and supposed to stand between the viola and cello. Of the viola it has
the technique and of the cello the depth and power. Works from the 18th
century to today : Mozart, CPE Bach, Espejo, Bloch, Paganini, Bacri...
either with gut strings and the 430 Hz armonica to give a baroque
identity or with metal strings and the 442Hz armonica. Some recent
works may use a playback for pre-recorded electronic parts.
Visit Jacques Dupriez website here.
CRYSTAL BASCHET, BARYTONE VIOLIN and GLASS ARMONICA A unique association of three
musicians, each of them considered as the best performer with his own
rare instrument(s) . The range of the two glass instruments used here
is the same as that of a piano. Works from the 18th century to today :
Mozart, Reichardt, Paganini, Deneuve, Bloch, Bacri...Some recent works may use a playback for pre-recorded electronic parts.
Visit Michel Deneuve's website here. Visit Jacques Dupriez website here.
MICHEL REDOLFI - THOMAS BLOCH Works from the 18th century to
today. Most of the recent works have been composed by Michel
Redolfi for the rare instruments and live electronics. Staging, sound
design and possibly visual design for all sorts of places (concert
halls, swimming pools - underwater music - , the sea, outdoor places,
churches, streets ...). Michel Redolfi is a composer of electronic
music from GRM (Groupe de Recherche Musical founded by Pierre Schaeffer
and Pierre Henri). He has done research work at San Diego University
(California) and invented the underwater concerts (concerts in a pool
with special loudspeakers, the audience being only able to hear the
music when they are in the water). He also composed and created
soundscapes for the largest aquatic parks and more recently for the new
tramcar in Nice (France).
Visit Michel Redolfi's website here.
FINE TUNING Experimental music,
contemporary music, improvisation. The trio can be associated with
other musicians, voices, dance, painting, literature...Some recent works may use a playback for pre-recorded electronic parts.
DRAMATIC (not always...) SOPRANO, ONDES MARTENOT, CRISTAL BASCHET, WATERPHONE and PIANO Eclectic
repertoire (from baroque to the cabarets of the 1950ies, concert in F
by
Gershwin, Fats Waller, Messiaen, Britten, Liszt, Chopin,
Rachmaninoff, The Rolling Stones...), improvisations, interactive
participation of the public (someone is asked to conduct us, other
can propose a thema on which we'll improvise in various styles,
etc). Some recent works may use a playback for pre-recorded
electronic parts.
To hear and see Isabelle Poinloup here. Visit Francois Weigel's website here.
CRYSTAL VOICE, GLASS ARMONICA and QUARTET
QUARTET / QUINTET with GLASSHARMONICA
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