Class of: 1972

Peter H. Bloom

Peter H. Bloom (CAS’72) of Somerville, Mass., a flutist, marked his 43rd season with the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra in 2019. The orchestra is led by founder and music director Mark Harvey (STH’71, GRS’83) of Arlington, Mass. Tenor saxophonist Ricky Ford joined Aardvark as a guest artist in April 2019 as the band celebrated Duke Ellington’s 120th birthday on MIT’s mainstage, Kresge Auditorium, in Cambridge. In August, Bloom and the Aardvark Jazztet performed the premiere of Mark Harvey’s Consecration, commissioned by the Summer Concert Series of the Saint-Gaudens National Historical Site in Cornish, N.H.

From the Summer 2020 issue.