Robert Bloch
Robert Samson Bloch, Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of California, Davis, holds an M.A. degree from the University of Chicago and a ler prix avec distinction from the Conservatoire Royal de Musique, Brussels. A violinist and violist known equally for his performance of early and contemporary music, he is the recipient of the First Prize in the Young Artists Contest of the Society of American Musicians, The Kranichsteiner Musikpreis, and an Alfred Hertz Memorial Fellowship. A former violinist in the San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco Opera, he was the principal second violin of the Minnesota Orchestra. He has made solo appearances throughout Europe, Australia, and the United States. Some years ago he was invited to join the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra on a tour that took them to Germany, England, and the former Soviet Union. He has recorded for Pathe-Marconi, Musical Heritage, Monitor, and Redwood Records.