Michael Blake

Background

About Michael Blake

Performances in Lincoln Center New York, Carnegie Hall, Opera Bastille Paris, Schoenberg Center Vienna, De Bijloke Ghent, St John’s Smith Square and South Bank London, etc. Music featured at ISCM World Music Days, Ars Musica Belgium, Festival d'Automne a Paris, Ubuntu Festival of South African Arts NYC, Brighton and Edinburgh Festivals, Evenings of New Music Bratislava, etc. Has worked with Daan Vandewalle, Nicolas Horvath, Jill Richards, Antony Gray, Ancuza Aprodu, Fitzwilliam Quartet, Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, Ivo Nilsson and Jonny Axelsson, Trio Fibonacci, Fidelio Trio, Ensemble Bash, Ixion, Nicholas Cleobury, Darius Klysis, among many others, and numerous orchestras and new music ensembles in UK, Germany, France, Switzerland, Slovakia, Estonia, Mexico, Argentina, New York, Toronto, Vancouver etc. Guest lecturer at Cambridge University, Goldsmiths College London, Southampton University, Bucknell University, Toronto University, University of Cape Town, Stellenbosch University (extraordinary professor), Janacek Academy Brno, Buenos Aires Conservatoire, CoMA Summer School, etc. Artistic director Sterkfontein Composers Meeting, Purpur Festival (with Pierre-Henri Wicomb), New Music Indaba president ISCM South African Section curator The Bow Project. Invitations to artist/composer residencies at Bellagio Rockefeller Centre, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, Nirox Foundation, Druskininkai Artists Residence, Visby International Composers Centre etc. Some 10 CDs that feature his music are currently available. Scores of all works are available through Schott Music, published by Bardic Edition.