David Bloom is a conductor equally at home in orchestral repertoire, opera, and new music, leading “ferocious and focused” (New York Times) performances lauded for their “rhythmic precision and dynamic forward motion” (Wall Street Journal). He is Co-Artistic Director of both Contemporaneous and Present Music, Artistic Director of Queer Urban Orchestra, and Principal Conductor of the orchestras at NYU. In such venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Disney Hall, MoMA, and Park Avenue Armory, Bloom has worked with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Jacaranda, Kronos Quartet, The Crossing, Dashon Burton, David Byrne, Helga Davis, Isabel Leonard, Hila Plitmann, and Dawn Upshaw, among others. He has led productions for Opera Omaha, Beth Morrison Projects, Tri-Cities Opera, PROTOTYPE, Teatro Grattacielo, Experiments in Opera, and more. He has conducted over 400 world premieres, including Raven Chacon’s Voiceless Mass, which won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize. davidbloomconductor.com