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Comment: You’ve made a great start to the article, unfortunately as yet it lacks sufficient sources which prove notability. It requires 2-3 sources which are reliable, independent, secondary sources, which talk at length about the topic of the article. Unfortunately the sources you have so far aren’t quite there. There are a number which mention Bloom in passing, or talk about his work, but none which focus on him specifically, which are also published by someone independent of him. It might be most useful to try to find specific profiles of him, remembering though that interviews are primary sources, so don’t count for determining notability. Hopefully you’ll be able to find some sources relatively quickly, and then we should be able to move forward with approving this article. Good luck 👍 Absurdum4242 (talk) 04:31, 25 September 2025 (UTC)
David Bloom is an American conductor known for opera and contemporary music. He is the co-founder and co-artistic director of the ensemble Contemporaneous and was named the Principal Conductor of Present Music in 2019, where he has worked with artists including Phillip Glass, William Kentridge, Raven Chacon, Ariadne Greif, and Carla Kihlstedt.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]
He notably conducted Dylan Mattingly and Thomas Bartscherer’s six hour opera Stranger Love, presented by the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall.[15] [16][17][18]
Bloom became Principal Conductor of the New York University Orchestra and a member of the conducting faculty in 2019, and in 2022 he became Artistic Director of the Queer Urban Orchestra in New York. He has been a guest conductor with institutions including The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Tri-Cities Opera, Opera Omaha, Beth Morrison Projects, and the American Composers Orchestra. [19][20] He conducted world premieres of three new operas in 2024 at the Washington National Opera's American Opera Initiative; Forever by Elizabeth Gartman, Hairpiece, by Joy Redmond, and A Way Forward by Laura Jobin-Acosta. [21][20][22]
He began composing at 13, and played piano and clarinet as a child.[1]
Discography
[edit]- 2025 Raven Chacon: Voiceless Mass (New World) (Present Music / Ariadne Greif / David Bloom)[19]
- 2025 26 Little Deaths (Karla Kihlstedt / Present Music)
- 2026 Gabriel Vicéns: Mural
- 2023 David Lang: Shade (Contemporaneous / David Bloom)
- 2020 Anthony Gatto: Wise Blood
- 2019 Matt Frey: One-Eleven heavy-A Chamber Opera (Navona Records) (Jenny Ribeiro / Karim Sulayman / David Bloom / Hotel Elefant)
- 2019 Brooks: The Passion (Cantaloupe)(Bang on a Can All-Stars/ David Bloom / Contemporaneous)
- 2018 Eric Klein: The Myth of Tomorrow
- 2016 Cistern (Jherek Bischoff)
- 2015 The NYFA Collection, Vol. 2
- 2015 Elliott Sharpe: The Boreal (Starkland)(Jack Quartet / Jenny Lin / Orchestra Carbon / Peter Rundel)
- 2014 Guy Barash: Facts About Water
- The Two Halves (Contemporaneous / Finnegan Shanahan)
- Stream of Stars (Contemporaneous)
- Ryan Carter: On a Better Filtering Algorithm (David Bloom / Present Music)[23]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Elaine Schmidt (26 May 2016). "Conductor David Bloom to get by with a little help from his friends". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Archived from the original on 21 March 2023. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
- ^ Brendan Fox (9 September 2019). "Present Music May Be Better Than Ever". Urban Milwaukee. Archived from the original on 16 March 2025. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
- ^ Rick Walters (9 September 2019). "Under New Leaders, Present Music Opens on High Note". Shepherd Express. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
- ^ Erol Reyal (15 November 2022). "David Bloom and Eric Segnitz, Co-Artistic Directors of Present Music". Shepherd Express. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
- ^ David Luhrssen (10 November 2023). "Present Music's Thanksgiving Concert". Shepherd Express. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
- ^ Brendan Fox (13 September 2022). "Beauty Meets the Beast at Present Music Concert". Shepherd Express. Archived from the original on 24 June 2025. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
- ^ Barndt, Michael. "Classical: Bloom's Day for Present Music". Urban Milwaukee. Retrieved 2025-09-27.
- ^ Barndt, Michael. "Classical: Present Music Opens The Season". Urban Milwaukee. Retrieved 2025-09-27.
- ^ Schmidt, Elaine. "Guest conductor leads Present Music's friendly concert". Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 2025-09-27.
- ^ Reising, Sam (2013-12-13). "Contemporaneous Shines in Music At First Concert". I CARE IF YOU LISTEN. Retrieved 2025-09-27.
- ^ Deneuville, Thomas (2012-04-08). "5 questions to David Bloom (conductor, co-artistic director of Contemporaneous)". I CARE IF YOU LISTEN. Retrieved 2025-09-27.
- ^ "Conductor David Bloom on Present Music's Season Finale and Working With Composers". WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR. Retrieved 2025-09-27.
- ^ Barry, John W. "A sizzling summer at SummerScape, the Spiegeltent". Poughkeepsie Journal. Retrieved 2025-09-27.
- ^ Beleckis, Jonah (2022-07-16). "Being heard: Indigenous composer's piece 'Voiceless Mass,' performed in Milwaukee, wins Pulitzer Prize". WPR. Retrieved 2025-09-27.
- ^ Zachary Woolfe (15 May 2023). "A Six-Hour Opera Goes On for One Euphoric Night Only". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 22 November 2024. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
- ^ Joshua Barone (22 May 2023). "Review: 'Stranger Love' Reflects the L.A. Philharmonic at Its Finest". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 22 November 2024. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
- ^ Simon Cohen (23 May 2023). "A Dazzling Six-Hour Journey Into the Cosmos". San Francisco Classical Voice. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
- ^ Joshua Cosman (23 May 2023). "A 6-hour opera about love? In L.A., an improbable creation makes its dazzling debut". SFChronicle. Archived from the original on 7 February 2024. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
- ^ a b James Manheim. "David Bloom Discography". Allmusic. Archived from the original on 25 May 2025. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
- ^ a b "David Bloom - Performances (Upcoming) | Archive, Tickets & Video | Operabase". www.operabase.com. Retrieved 2025-09-06.
- ^ Charles T. Downey (20 January 2024). "Washington National Opera renews commitment to future of American opera". Washington Classical Review. Archived from the original on 12 August 2025. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
- ^ Tracy, Matt (2025-08-21). "Queer Urban Orchestra creates 'a place for us' among LGBTQ musicians and allies". gaycitynews.com. Retrieved 2025-09-27.
- ^ "Recordings by David Bloom | Now available to stream and purchase at Naxos". www.naxos.com. Retrieved 2025-09-27.
External Links
[edit]- Official Website: David Bloom, Conductor Archived 2025-08-23 at the Wayback Machine
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