Draft:David Bloom (conductor)

David Bloom is an American conductor known for opera and contemporary music. He is the co-founder and co-artistic director of the ensemble Contemporaneous and was named the Principal Conductor of Present Music in 2019, where he has worked with artists including Phillip Glass, William Kentridge, Raven Chacon, Ariadne Greif, and Carla Kihlstedt.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]}

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• Comment: You’ve made a great start to the article, unfortunately as yet it lacks sufficient sources which prove notability. It requires 2-3 sources which are reliable, independent, secondary sources, which talk at length about the topic of the article. Unfortunately the sources you have so far aren’t quite there. There are a number which mention Bloom in passing, or talk about his work, but none which focus on him specifically, which are also published by someone independent of him. It might be most useful to try to find specific profiles of him, remembering though that interviews are primary sources, so don’t count for determining notability. Hopefully you’ll be able to find some sources relatively quickly, and then we should be able to move forward with approving this article. Good luck 👍 Absurdum4242 (talk) 04:31, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

He notably conducted Dylan Mattingly and Thomas Bartscherer’s six hour opera Stranger Love, presented by the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall.^{[15][16][17][18]} The Los Angeles Philharmonic announced he would return to conduct a concert of Mattingly and Julia Wolfe in 2027.^[19]

Bloom became Principal Conductor of the New York University Orchestra and a member of the conducting faculty in 2019, and in 2022 he became Artistic Director of the Queer Urban Orchestra in New York. He has been a guest conductor with institutions including The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Tri-Cities Opera, Opera Omaha, Beth Morrison Projects, and the American Composers Orchestra. ^[20][21] He conducted world premieres of three new operas in 2024 at the Washington National Opera's American Opera Initiative; Forever by Elizabeth Gartman, Hairpiece, by Joy Redmond, and A Way Forward by Laura Jobin-Acosta. ^[22][21][23]

He began composing at 13, and played piano and clarinet as a child.^[1]