About
Christian-Frédéric Bloquert is a French composer & conductor.
Mr Bloquert has received many accolades for his work 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.
Mr. Bloquert has received commissions by some of the world’s most cutting edge groups including the Ensemble InterContemporain, 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.
Upcoming premieres include his third ballet, memory forgot commissioned by New Chamber Ballet in New York City, marking his second collaboration with choreographer Miro Magloire.
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 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, with 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.
Mr Bloquert has received many accolades for his work 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.
Mr. Bloquert has received commissions by some of the world’s most cutting edge groups including the Ensemble InterContemporain, 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.
Upcoming premieres include his third ballet, memory forgot commissioned by New Chamber Ballet in New York City, marking his second collaboration with choreographer Miro Magloire.
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 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, with 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.
