External links
- Blocker’s personal website Archived February 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- Bio — Yale School of Music Archived February 23, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- Bio — Yale School of Management
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Robert Blocker | |
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| Henry and Lucy Moses Dean of Music, Yale University | |
| In office 2006–2023 | |
| Succeeded by | JoséGarcía-León |
| Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Southern Methodist University | |
| In office 2005–2006 | |
| Preceded by | Ross C. Murfin |
| Succeeded by | Paul W. Ludden |
| Dean of Music,Yale University | |
| In office 1995–2005 | |
| Founding Dean,School of the Arts and Architecture | |
| In office 1991–1995 | |
| Dean,College of Music | |
| In office 1988–1991 | |
| Dean,School of Music,Baylor University | |
| In office 1983–1988 | |
| Dean,School of Music,University of North Carolina at Greensboro | |
| In office 1981–1983 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 4,1946 |
| Education | Furman University (BA) North Texas (MM,DMA) |
| Occupation | Music school dean Music educator |
Robert Blocker (born September 4,1946) is an American classical pianist, [1] [2] [3] music educator,and university administrator, [4] [5] [6] who served as Dean of the Yale School of Music since July 1995 until 2023. He is a Steinway artist.
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 with eminent American 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. [7] In 1986,while serving as dean at Baylor,Blocker was a fellow at the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard in 1986.
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. He was president of the Charleston County Student Council and is a member of the St. Andrews Parish High School Hall of Fame.
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