Thomas Bloch is acknowledged as a leading specialist in the rare instruments he plays, the glassharmonica, Onde Martenot, and cristal Baschet (see www.chez.com/thomasbloch). He has given more than 2,500 performances in thirty countries and has taken part in more than eighty recordings in various styles as a musician or a composer.
As a soloist, he has performed on the soundtracks of Milos Forman’s Amadeus and The March of Penguins (Oscar 2006), with rock bands Radiohead, Gorillaz (Monkey: Journey to the West), with Marianne Faithfull, Tom Waits and Bob Wilson (The Black Rider), Vanessa Paradis, Zazie, Manu Dibango, Fred Frith, Alan Alda, Isabelle Huppert, Sally Potter, John Cage, Paul Sacher, Jean Fournet, Dennis Russell-Davies, Michel Plasson, Myung-Whun Chung, Antoni Wit, Arturo Tamayo, Jean-François Zygel, Jay Gottlieb, Roger Muraro, Maurice Bourgue, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Alexei Ogrintchouk, Alex Balanescu, Marc Grauwels and many others.
Concert performances include La Scala Milan, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra (for the centenary of the orchestra), the Paris Opéra, and concert halls in New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Sydney, Tokyo, Mexico, Bogotá, Kuhmo, Prague, Berlin, Madrid, and Lisbon, among others.
Bloch teaches Onde Martenot at the Strasbourg Conservatoire and is responsible for presentations at the Paris Musical Museum. He is musical director for the Evian Music Festival and received (with others) First Prizes for Onde Martenot at the Paris Conservatoire (with Jeanne Loriod) and the 2002 Midem Classical Music Award for Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie (Naxos 8.554478-79 with Antoni Wit, François Weigel and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra). He has recorded for all major companies. Since 1998, his recordings for Naxos have included Music for Glass Harmonica (8.555295) and Music for Ondes Martenot (8.555779), among others.
