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Artist
Thomas Bloch
12+ albums
contemporary classicalfrenchglass harmonicaambientondes martenot
about
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 G
