[1] Two years later, Michel Block won the Leventritt Competition in New York, adding his name to the illustrious list of winners, among which Alexis Weissenberg, Van Cliburn, and Eugene Istomin.
In 1978, Block joined the music faculty at Indiana University Bloomington, and greatly reduced his concertizing.
His playing was characterized by a rich singing tone, lyrical phrasing, transparent voicing, and wonderful dynamic control.
Block made numerous recordings (many of which are now out of print) for major labels, including EMI, Pathé Marconi, Pro-Piano and Deutsche Grammophon.
He recorded music by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Robert Schumann, Frédéric Chopin, J. S. Bach, Franz Schubert, Enrique Granados, Alexander Scriabin, and Isaac Albéniz (including his disc of the suite Iberia).