About
Christian-Frédéric Bloquert is a French composer & conductor noted for his subtlety and enthusiasm.
As a composer he has received many accolades for including the 2020 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composers Award, the 2022 Israel/Pellman Prize and the 2023 BMI Composers Award. He was also a finalist of the 2021 Basel International Composition Competition and the 2023 Luciano Berio Composition Competition. In 2024 he was the second recipient of the Pisar Prize.
He has been commissioned/played by groups such as the Ensemble InterContemporain, Les Siècles the New York City Ballet Choreographic Institute, National Sawdust, and New Chamber Ballet amongst others. Other groups that have played his music include the MIVOS Quartet, Irvin Arditti, the 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 amongst others.
The 2024/2025 season will feature two major premiers including his third ballet, memory forgot, a one hour long work scored for piano and violin commissioned by New Chamber Ballet in New York City, marking his second collaboration with choreographer Miro Magloire, and ce souvenir, l’instant at the Théâtre Des Champs Élysées by Les Siècles and conductor Jakob Lehmann.
Very active as a conductor, Bloquert has premiered many new works by fellow composers and is the Music Director & Co-founder of the BeComEnsemble. He founded the group in 2022 to prioritise the commission of works by emerging composers and artists, and to feature rising talent.
He began his studies in Mathematics at the University of Queensland in Australia before transferring to Berklee College of Music where he received his Bachelors of Music with a double major in Composition and Film Scoring, and a minor in Conducting, studying with Dr. Richard Carrick and Dr. Andrew List. He also has a Masters of Music degree from Juilliard School where he studied with Matthias Pintscher.
As a composer he has received many accolades for including the 2020 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composers Award, the 2022 Israel/Pellman Prize and the 2023 BMI Composers Award. He was also a finalist of the 2021 Basel International Composition Competition and the 2023 Luciano Berio Composition Competition. In 2024 he was the second recipient of the Pisar Prize.
He has been commissioned/played by groups such as the Ensemble InterContemporain, Les Siècles the New York City Ballet Choreographic Institute, National Sawdust, and New Chamber Ballet amongst others. Other groups that have played his music include the MIVOS Quartet, Irvin Arditti, the 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 amongst others.
The 2024/2025 season will feature two major premiers including his third ballet, memory forgot, a one hour long work scored for piano and violin commissioned by New Chamber Ballet in New York City, marking his second collaboration with choreographer Miro Magloire, and ce souvenir, l’instant at the Théâtre Des Champs Élysées by Les Siècles and conductor Jakob Lehmann.
Very active as a conductor, Bloquert has premiered many new works by fellow composers and is the Music Director & Co-founder of the BeComEnsemble. He founded the group in 2022 to prioritise the commission of works by emerging composers and artists, and to feature rising talent.
He began his studies in Mathematics at the University of Queensland in Australia before transferring to Berklee College of Music where he received his Bachelors of Music with a double major in Composition and Film Scoring, and a minor in Conducting, studying with Dr. Richard Carrick and Dr. Andrew List. He also has a Masters of Music degree from Juilliard School where he studied with Matthias Pintscher.
