Musicologist/pianist David Bloch passed away August 6, 2010. He was a pioneer in the rediscovery of the music of Terezín, and a founding member of Music of Remembrance’s Advisory Board. His family wrote: "We hope and believe that his musical legacy will endure also, and that his life-work of bringing the music of Terezin back in to awareness has contributed greatly to the the memory of the artists and restoration of their music to its rightful place in history as was his quest. In this music he shall also be remembered."

David Bloch was Associate Professor of Music at Tel Aviv University, founder and director of the Group for New Music, and the Terezin Music Memorial Project. He published articles about the music of Terezin in musicology journals, conference proceedings, and in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He recorded for the Israel Broadcasting Authority, the BBC, and Voice of Cairo, and produced CDs for a number of labels.

In the millennium year, he produced a Gideon Klein 80th Anniversary Retrospective Concert at Tel Aviv University, and, with members of the Group for New Music, gave two concerts at a music festival in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In August 2001 he participated in a series of workshops at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., with other researchers from the U.S.A., Germany and Israel, on the subject of “Culture in Ghetto Settings.”