Christian-Frédéric Bloquert is a French composer and conductor. As a composer, his work has been recognized through a number of awards including a BMI Composers Award, the Israel/Pellman Prize and ASCAP Morton Gould Award amongst others. He was also a finalist in the 2021 Basel Composition Competition and the 2023 Luciano Berio Composition Competition. Bloquert was the second recipient of the Pisar Prize in 2024.
As a conductor, he is the co-founder and Music Director of the BeComEnsemble, an NYC based contemporary ensemble focused on reshaping the contemporary concert experience by focusing on early career artists.
At MacDowell, Bloquert composed sections of a chamber ballet, Memory, Forgot, commissioned by choreographer Miro Magloire and the New Chamber Ballet that will premiere in New York in Fall 2024. The 8-minute original version of this piece was commissioned by the New York City Ballet Choreographic Institute and premiered in March 2022. He also worked on a piece for orchestra that will be premiered by the orchestra Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth at the Théâtre des Champs Élysées in Paris in October 2024.
