Name Robert Blocker | ||
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Born September 4, 1946 (age 78) ( 1946-09-04 ) Occupation Music educatorMusic school dean Parent(s) Mr. & Mrs. Lewis Albert Blocker Alma mater Furman University, University of North Texas College of Music, Harvard University |
Robert blocker general spot m4v
Robert Lewis Blocker, DMA (born September 4, 1946) is an American classical pianist, choral conductor, music educator, and music school executive at the collegiate level, who, for the past twenty-two years (since July 1995), has served as Dean of the Yale School of Music, which since 1958 has been exclusively a graduate professional school.
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- Robert blocker general spot m4v
- Greetings from Dean Blocker
- Education
- Honorary degrees
- Honors awards
- Selected discography
- Family growing up
- References
Greetings from Dean Blocker
Education
Blocker earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Furman University in 1968. He earned graduate degrees — Master of Music in 1970 and Doctor of Musical Arts in 1972 — from the University of North Texas College of Music, where he studied closely with pianist Richard Brannan Cass (1931–2009), an alumnus of Furman and Juilliard and 1953 Fulbright Scholar to the National School of Music of Paris where he had studied with Nadia Boulanger. In 1986, while serving as dean at Baylor, Blocker was a fellow at the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard in 1986.
Honorary degrees
Honors & awards
Selected discography
Family & growing up
Blocker is a graduate of the St. Andrews Parish High School, which as since merged with West Ashley High School in the Charleston County School District of South Carolina.