Excerpts:

"... Great skill and accomplishment, a Measurable virtuoso bent... mesmerizing moments..."
— Los Angeles Times

"... Excellent piano playing ... a generous example of fine virtuoso talent." (Spoleto Festival)
— Charleston (S.C.) News and Courier

"Executed with great vigor, at times the music achieved the effect of a murmuring brook."
— Korea Times

"Demonstrated virtuosic flair of mammoth proportions in the rarely heard Fantasia by Vaughn Williams." (Ely Cathedral)
— Cambridge, England

"Blocker's passages spoke with beauty and sincerity." (Prague Chamber Orchestra)
— Straits Times, Singapore

The Hartford Courant:

"The cadence ... was so powerful at the close of the first half of the movment that a noticeable clap surge developed throughout the hall. The ... that ensued instantly swallowed this surge before any false clap-shots were fired off. Amusing stuff.

From La Provincia:
"The Bravo! ...was heard all the way to Bonn...."

"...for all this emotion that seized us can only be realized if there is an interpreter that allows it, and Robert Blocker was the one. He is a pianist of purified technique -- one could say perfect -- with an unusual clarity of phrasing that was not lost in even the fastest passages.... But together with that he has an enormous sensitivity, the ability to recognize the emotional message of the work and pour it out in the performance; he is very warm and emotional."