Ensemble Aubade

Ensemble Aubade (Peter H. Bloom, multiple flutes; Francis Grimes, viola; Mary Jane Rupert, harp and piano) performs vivid chamber music by European and American composers.  The trio, based in Boston, concertizes throughout the United States, winning praise for stellar musicianship, vibrant performances, and engaging residencies.  They’ve been acclaimed for “intensity, imagination, skill and finesse” (St. Lawrence University) and “rich interpretations and beautiful contrasts” (West Claremont Center for the Arts).   Ensemble Aubade offers extensive educational outreach including master classes, lecture-demos, school concerts (elementary, middle school and high school), improvisation workshops, and other activities. Flutist Peter H. Bloom, whose playing has been called “a revelation for unforced sweetness and strength” (The Boston Globe), concertizes widely in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, New Zealand, and Australia; is featured on 45 recordings (Sony Classical, Dorian, Leo Records, other labels); serves as historical performance consultant to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston; is contributing editor for Noteworthy Sheet Music; and is a winner of the American Musicological Society’s Noah Greenberg Award.  Mary Jane Rupert, harp and piano, praised by The New York Times as exhibiting "indeed real sensitivity," has performed from Carnegie Recital Hall to the Beijing Concert Hall. She has appeared as concert pianist and harpist with chamber ensembles, choral groups and orchestras across the United States.  She serves on the faculties of Boston College and Tufts University and taught previously at Western Michigan University, MIT, and Wellesley College, where she taught harp for 20 years.  Violist Frank Grimes has performed with the Boston Pops, Boston Opera, Masterworks Chorale and other distinguished ensembles and regularly serves in the orchestras of the Colonial and Schubert Theatres. He has served on the faculties of Milton Academy, the All Newton Music School and the Community Music Center of Boston.  He attended Boston University’s School of Fine Arts and completed his BM at Indiana University as a student of William Primrose.  Flutist Peter H. Bloom and harpist/pianist Mary Jane Rupert have toured the globe as the Duo “2”, in a collaboration spanning 25 years.