Christian-Frédéric Bloquert © 2025 Photo by Thomas Brunot
About
Christian-Frédéric Bloquert is a French composer and conductor recognised for his subtlety and enthusiasm.
As a composer, he has received numerous accolades, including the 2020 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composers Award, the 2022 Israel/Pellman Prize, and the 2023 BMI Composer Award amongst others. He was a finalist in the 2021 Basel International Composition Competition and a finalist of the 2023 Luciano Berio Composition Competition, and in 2024 he became the second recipient of the Pisar Prize.
His works have been commissioned and performed by leading ensembles and institutions such as the Ensemble InterContemporain, Les Siècles, the Tonkünstler Orchestra, the Sinfonieorchester Basel, the New York City Ballet Choreographic Institute, National Sawdust, and New Chamber Ballet. His music has also been performed by the Mivos Quartet, Irvine Arditti, PHACE Ensemble, the Symphony Orchestra of the National Theatre of Brasília, the Juilliard Symphony, the Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra, the Society for New Music, and the National Sawdust Ensemble, among others.
Highlights of the 2024–2025 season include three major premieres: his third ballet memory forgot, a one-hour work for piano and violin commissioned by New Chamber Ballet in New York City and marking his second collaboration with choreographer Miro Magloire; ce souvenir, l’instant, performed at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées by Les Siècles under the baton of Jakob Lehmann; and the world premiere of Métropole I with the Tonkünstler Orchestra at the Grafenegg Festival, which also marks his conducting debut with the group.
An active conductor, Bloquert has premiered numerous works by contemporary composers. He is the Music Director and Co-Founder of the BeComEnsemble, which he launched in 2022 to champion emerging composers and showcase rising performers.Bloquert began his studies in mathematics at the University of Queensland (Australia) before transferring to Berklee College of Music, where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree with a double major in Composition and Film Scoring and a minor in Conducting, studying with Richard Carrick and Andrew List. He later received a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Matthias Pintscher.
As a composer, he has received numerous accolades, including the 2020 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composers Award, the 2022 Israel/Pellman Prize, and the 2023 BMI Composer Award amongst others. He was a finalist in the 2021 Basel International Composition Competition and a finalist of the 2023 Luciano Berio Composition Competition, and in 2024 he became the second recipient of the Pisar Prize.
His works have been commissioned and performed by leading ensembles and institutions such as the Ensemble InterContemporain, Les Siècles, the Tonkünstler Orchestra, the Sinfonieorchester Basel, the New York City Ballet Choreographic Institute, National Sawdust, and New Chamber Ballet. His music has also been performed by the Mivos Quartet, Irvine Arditti, PHACE Ensemble, the Symphony Orchestra of the National Theatre of Brasília, the Juilliard Symphony, the Berklee Contemporary Symphony Orchestra, the Society for New Music, and the National Sawdust Ensemble, among others.
Highlights of the 2024–2025 season include three major premieres: his third ballet memory forgot, a one-hour work for piano and violin commissioned by New Chamber Ballet in New York City and marking his second collaboration with choreographer Miro Magloire; ce souvenir, l’instant, performed at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées by Les Siècles under the baton of Jakob Lehmann; and the world premiere of Métropole I with the Tonkünstler Orchestra at the Grafenegg Festival, which also marks his conducting debut with the group.
An active conductor, Bloquert has premiered numerous works by contemporary composers. He is the Music Director and Co-Founder of the BeComEnsemble, which he launched in 2022 to champion emerging composers and showcase rising performers.Bloquert began his studies in mathematics at the University of Queensland (Australia) before transferring to Berklee College of Music, where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree with a double major in Composition and Film Scoring and a minor in Conducting, studying with Richard Carrick and Andrew List. He later received a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Matthias Pintscher.
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