As a pianist, he exhibits an astute expertise as an improviser… His work Planeaciones Ancestrales shows a sophisticated orchestration.
        -The Grove Dictionary of American Music
 
 
A well deserved and prolonged standing ovation by an enthusiastic audience.
       -Rosalba Rolón, Artistic Director, Pregones Theater, New York City
 
 
Planeaciones Ancestrales … solid, emotional, fascinating [Translation from Spanish]
       -Jorge E. Martínez Solá / El Nuevo Día
 
 
Planeaciones Ancestrales is one of the most important works of the Latin American symphonic repertoire of the 20th Century. [A public statement, included with permission]
       -Eddie Mora, Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of San Jose / 
         Founder of the Instituto de Investigación de Arte / Heredia Symphony Orchestra Artistic Director
 
 
Alfonso Fuentes tapped a key on the piano to launch into a compelling improvisational riff.
       -Princeton Comment


About Plena:  An album as unclassifiable as memorable... destined to excel in the history of Puerto Rican music. |
 Beyond any doubt, one of the most internationally prized (Puerto Ricans) composers. [Translations from Spanish]

       -Rafael Vega Curry / Fundación Nacional para la Cultura Popular

 
Genial el maestro Alfonso Fuentes…
       -Mario Alegre Barrios, CMPR Oficial
 
 
Kumba-Kim… interesting, vibrant, energetic… definitively Latin American. [Translation from Spanish]
       -Emmanuel Dufrasne / 80 Grados
 
 
Fuentes managed a new idea in a creative and interesting way. Everything was well constructed, with fluidity from one section to another, from one instrument family to another. The audience acceptance was excellent, and it was necessary for the composer to come out to the stage several times to greet the audience. [Translation from Spanish]
       -Silvia Lamoutte / El Nuevo Día
 
 
… the  mastery on the piano was evident;  the technique was attached to dynamic, rhythmic and harmonic contrasts that left the audience amazed with the imagination, quick thinking, versatility and strength of the performer. [Translation from Spanish]
       -Nélida Muños de Frontera / Special for El Nuevo Día
 
 
Alfonso Fuentes is an amazing composer and genius on the piano.
       -Saxton Rose, Principal bassoon, Winston-Salem Symphony /Woodwind Department Chair, The University of North Carolina  
         School for the Arts


Fuentes’ super performance received the greatest round of applause of this Festival. 
[Translation from Spanish]                                                                  
       -Carlos A. Iramaín / El Vocero
                                                                       
 
With Alfonso Fuentes we enjoyed the most dazzling and exciting performance of the evening. 
[Translation from Spanish]                                                            
       -Jaime Torres Torres / El Nuevo Día
 
 
The presentation of Alfonso Fuentes’s contemporary composition… was a genuinely historical occasion, a sort of communication between the resonant modernism of the work and the absorbed attention of the audience, astonished of listening music of such high level, on an massive event, and event more, at outdoors. [Translation from Spanish]
       -Rafael Vega Curry /  Revista Domingo  

 
...he is a talented composer. This fact has been demonstrated several times. [Translation form Spanish]
        -Roberto Sierra / El Mundo
 
 
Of the youngest island composers active today, Fuentes may possess the highest level of skill in the art of instrumentation, as well as the ability, uncommon nowadays, to generate extended musical statement.
       -Donald Thompson / the San Juan Star
 
                              
Mr. Fuentes’ music brings a deep message, serving as a positive bridge between diverse parts of society and bringing into a rich interactive conversation all the different cultures that live together in Puerto Rico today.
       -Oskar Espina-Ruiz, President-Executive Director / Treetops Chamber Music Society