A performance featuring award-winning French glass harmonica player Thomas Bloch, who will lead you through a journey with the rare instrument’s stunning and hauntingly beautiful tones. Prepare to be mesmerized!
Invented in 1761, the glass harmonica was named after “armonia,” the Italian word for harmony. This unique instrument features a series of glass bowls graduated in size to produce music.
Thomas Bloch has played in all the major concert halls in Paris, at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Tonhalle in Zurich and at numerous festivals around the world including the Prades Pablo Casals Festival, the Lucerne Festival, the La Chaise Dieu Festival and the Beethoven Festival in Bonn among others. He has also performed the original version of the mad scene with glass harmonica in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor at the opera house La Scala Milan and as Ondes Martenot soloist for the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra’s centenary concert. His awards include the Classical Music Award 2002 given by the European critics during Midem (Cannes), Best of the Year 2001 in Audiophile, the Prix de l’Académie Charles Cros, the Choc in Le Monde de la Musique for his interpretation of Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie conducted by Antoni Wit on the Naxos label and four times best soundtrack by the World Subaquatic Movies Festival in Antibes.