BLANCA FUENTES ESEN Español
Blanca Fuentes, portrait in a black gown

Composer and pianist in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico

Blanca Fuentes

Blanca Fuentes is a Mexican composer and pianist whose music explores memory, nature and human emotion. Her work moves between concert music, electronics and stage creation, building sound experiences that connect tradition with the contemporary.

Music, a «photograph of the soul».

On stage

Blanca Fuentes at the grand piano with her electronics, Palacio de la Música
On stage Piano and electronics at the Palacio de la Música, Mérida
Blanca Fuentes, seen from behind, playing a Steinway piano from the score
At the piano
Blanca Fuentes, in red, conducts a women’s choir and a violinist
Conducting her music
Blanca Fuentes smiling with a bouquet of roses after a concert
After the concert
Estampa Yucateca — cover

2019 single, 2:35

Estampa Yucateca

Brass ensemble

First prize in chamber music, Encuentro de Músicos de Cámara y Sinfónicos Yucatecos 2019

30-second preview
Crisálida Sequenza Sur; conducted by Joaquín Melo
La X’piringallo For orchestra and soprano; Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil e Infantil «José Luis Chan Sabido», cond. María Elena Mendiola
Poesía Escolar On a poem by Rita Cetina; premiered at the MMC Festival 2024, conducted by Blanca Fuentes

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  1. 2026CrisálidaFlute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, violin, viola, double bass, piano, percussion and fixed media
  2. 2025Conversaciones en un confidenteReed quintet; adapted for string quintet (2026)
  3. 2025Raíces EntrelazadasSoloists and string quartet (original); arranged for orchestra; reduced for voice and piano
  4. 2024Poesía EscolarSoprano, mezzo-soprano, women’s choir and string orchestra

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Blanca Fuentes

Mexican composer, pianist and cultural producer from Mérida, Yucatán.

  • Founder and director of the Mujeres Músicas Contemporáneas Festival, since 2021
  • First prize in chamber music, Encuentro de Músicos de Cámara y Sinfónicos Yucatecos 2019, for «Estampa Yucateca»
  • Seven of her works, in her own orchestrations, performed by the Mérida City Children and Youth Orchestra (2025)
  • «Conversaciones en un confidente», commissioned by the Quinteto de Cañas de la Frontera (2026)
  • Raíces Entrelazadas, a staged concert supported by PECDA 2024
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