On April 27, Yale President Peter Salovey hosted a concert event in celebration of Yale School of Music Dean Robert Blocker’s 28 years of distinguished service to the University. Blocker will retire as Dean on August 31.
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On Feb. 24, the Yale Philharmonia will perform its annual concert in the School’s intimate concert venue, Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall. Conducting student Samuel Hollister ’18BA ’28DMA will lead the orchestra in a program that includes Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25 in C major, K. 503, with soloist Derek Wang ’24AD, and Atterberg’s Eighth Symphony. We spoke with Samuel, who serves as Director of Orchestral Activities at the University of Rhode Island, about the repertoire he and the Yale Philharmonia will perform, the conducting program at YSM, and the professional aspirations that drive him.