2009 – and beyond

A worldwide celebration of 
Ernest Bloch’s works commemorating 
the 50th anniversary of his death

Musical organizations large and small, including opera companies, orchestras, choirs, ensembles, soloists and venues worldwide are invited to include Bloch’s music in their programs for 2009 – and beyond.  If you are programming Bloch this year and would like your event listed in this Festival please contact festival@ernestbloch.org . To begin the 50th year the International Ernest Bloch Society was launched on July 8 in London.  (To see what is already scheduled click on the ‘CALENDAR’ to the left).

Bloch’s only opera, Macbeth will be performed at the University of London and two performances of the Sacred Service will take place at the University of Roehampton. Two prestigious concerts will take place at the Wigmore Hall, including Bloch’s piano Quintet no 1 performed by the award-winning Goldner Quartet from Australia with internationally acclaimed pianist Piers Lane.  Major concerts and other events will take place in Switzerland, Israel, and China where there will be concerts of Bloch’s orchestral works in Beijing, Shanghai and Nanjing.’ 

The Songs of Life International Choral Festival will commemorate the heroic rescue of all the Bulgarian Jews during the Holocaust. The  12-day event will be held Nov. 21-Dec. 1, 2008 in Bulgaria and Israel and is being organized by Varna International Tours. Choirs from around the world will join together for the Bulgarian premiere performance of Ernest Bloch’s major choral work, Sacred Service (Avodat Hakodesh).
 
This International Jubilee Festival of performances and workshops is being coordinated by the Jewish Music Institute SOAS University of London, Joint Presidents Lady Solti and Leopold de Rothschild CBE, and by the Ernest Bloch Legacy Foundation, Agate Beach, Oregon, Chairman Ernest Bloch II, and Vice President Frank J. M. Geltner.

To participate in this Festival please contact festival@ernestbloch.org for information on having events posted to the calendar, or gaining authorization to post events from your country of origin.

International Committee:
Ernest Bloch II, Dr Frank J.M. Geltner (USA); Alain Hirsch. Oliver Margulies (Switzerland); Professor Dalia Atlas, Professor Jehoash Hirshberg (Israel); Ms Li Jin (China); Mr Akinori Itoh (Japan). Norman Solomon, Alexander Knapp, J Audrey Ellison (UK)
 

Producing events featuring Ernest Bloch and his music?

(Let us know details of upcoming events and we will add to master calendar in vertical navigation bar to left - or contact us to become a pubisher to the calendar.)

Visit the Oregon Coast Council for the Arts "Ernest Bloch Project" link.  

 Ernest Bloch Legacy logo print created by Lucienne Bloch Dimitroff from original photograph by Walt Dyke.

This page last updated on September 18, 2008. Master calendar updated on a regular basis.