Blanca Fuentes
Mexican composer, pianist and cultural producer from Mérida, Yucatán.
Her work brings together piano performance, contemporary composition and interdisciplinary projects. Her music has been presented at festivals, theatres and cultural venues across Mexico and performed by ensembles and orchestras.
She holds a degree in Musical Arts with a specialisation in Piano from the Universidad de las Artes de Yucatán. Her training spans composition, electroacoustic music and performance.
She has performed as a collaborative pianist at national and international gatherings and written original music for concerts, stage productions and audiovisual projects.
She is the founder and director of the Mujeres Músicas Contemporáneas Festival and the founder of Academia La Blanca.
Artistic career
Concerts, premieres and awards
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2026
- Premiere of Conversaciones en un confidente. Performed by the Quinteto de Cañas de la Frontera at Mérida Fest 2026.
- Premiere of Crisálida. Performed by the Sequenza Sur ensemble at Mérida Fest 2026.
- Raíces Entrelazadas — La Noche Blanca. The staged concert of original music, under Blanca Fuentes’s artistic and musical direction, at Casa Memoria «Guty Cárdenas».
- Hilos de creación: Tejiendo nuestra historia. Songs from Raíces Entrelazadas at the closing of the 6th Mujeres Músicas Contemporáneas Festival, in her own arrangements for piano and voice, with her at the piano accompanying the soloists.
- Voces que se escriben en el tiempo. Production and original script of this educational concert.
- With the violinist David Rivera. Accompanying pianist in Paganini’s La campanella.
- 6th Mujeres Músicas Contemporáneas Festival. Direction, production and coordination of the sixth edition.
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2025
- Entre Notas y Suspiros — Mérida Fest. Her concert of original music for piano and electronics in the concert hall of the Palacio de la Música.
- Raíces Entrelazadas — PECDA. Presentation of the creative project supported by PECDA 2024, with six soloists and the Cuarteto Nova.
- Raíces Entrelazadas — Orchestral version. Concert with the Mérida Children’s and Youth Orchestra, conducted by David Silva Monje, in Blanca Fuentes’s own orchestral arrangements.
- Yucatán Symphony Orchestra. Guest pianist in Mario Lavista’s Paráfrasis de Aura, conducted by Enrique Diemecke.
- Las niñas y la ciencia: Tejiendo un legado. A concert of music by women composers from Yucatán and Mexico, with Marcela Echeverría, Annie Fer Poot and Mariana Palma.
- Mujeres que inspiran. Her own music at the 5th Mujeres Músicas Contemporáneas Festival.
- Canciones a la luna y al amor. Concert with the soprano Annie Fer Poot at the Centro Cultural Hartii.
- Las flores de la trova — La Noche Blanca. A concert devoted to the women trova songwriters of Yucatán, with the mezzo-soprano Marcela Echeverría.
- Premiere of Fuego. Written for the fashion collection of the same name by the designer Iván Cruz.
- Tribute to Armando Manzanero. Concerts with the cellist Leticia Tzab in Mérida and Motul.
- 8M concert. Accompanying pianist for the women’s choir Voces Claras de Yucatán, at an event organised by SEDECULTA.
- Encuentro de Coros del Mayab. Accompanying pianist for the Coro de La Ibérica in its Christmas concert series.
- 5th Mujeres Músicas Contemporáneas Festival. Direction and production of the fifth edition.
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2024
- PECDA Yucatán grant. Awarded by the Programa de Estímulo a la Creación y Desarrollo Artístico for the project Raíces Entrelazadas: el sincretismo de la identidad yucateca.
- Artist residency in Barcelona, Spain. A scholarship from the Fundación Arte contra Violencia to specialise as a répétiteur for opera singers.
- Premiere of Poesía Escolar. On a poem by Rita Cetina, performed by soloists, Ensemble Vocal Luna (Cuba), Voces Claras de Yucatán and a string ensemble at the closing of the 4th Mujeres Músicas Contemporáneas Festival.
- Premiere of A mis amigos. Performed by the Coro de la Ciudad de Mérida, conducted by Nidia Góngora.
- Premiere of her arrangement of La mestiza. A choral arrangement of Chan Cil’s song, performed by the Coro de la Ciudad de Mérida under guest conductor Maribel Nodarse.
- Mujeres Compositoras — Guadalajara. Incertidumbre de una decisión in the second edition of the recital organised by Vivamos la Música.
- Acordes hacia Barcelona. A concert entirely of Blanca Fuentes’s own compositions.
- Entre boleros, te extraño — La Noche Blanca. Concert with Marcela Echeverría.
- Esferas y campanas. Production, instrumental direction and arrangements for a concert with guest singers and string quartet.
- Yucatán Symphony Orchestra. Répétiteur in the preparation of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
- A Survivor from Warsaw. Répétiteur in the preparation of Arnold Schoenberg’s work with the Taller de Ópera.
- Cantoras de Caucel. Accompanying pianist in Margarita Jímenez’s PECDA-supported project.
- 4th Mujeres Músicas Contemporáneas Festival. Direction and organisation of the fourth edition.
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2023
- Premiere of La X’piringallo. For soprano and orchestra, performed by the Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil «José Luis Chan Sabido», with performances across Yucatán.
- Premiere of La migración de las hadas. Performed by the Children’s and Youth Orchestra of Santiago de Querétaro at the Festival de Orquestas de Cámara Santiago de Querétaro.
- Estampa Yucateca. Performed by the Orquesta Típica Yukalpetén, adapted by Pedro Carlos Herrera.
- Opera in concert. Accompanying pianist for the singers of the Taller de Ópera de Yucatán.
- Festival Internacional de Coros Femeninos en Latinoamérica. Accompanying pianist for Voces Claras de Yucatán in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco.
- 3rd Mujeres Músicas Contemporáneas. Direction and organisation of the third edition.
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2022
- Opera in church. Accompanying pianist for the Taller de Ópera de Yucatán.
- Mujeres multidisciplinarias. As composer and pianist at the Casa de la Cultura del Mayab.
- 2nd Mujeres Músicas Contemporáneas. Direction and organisation of the second edition.
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2021
- El beso — Visiones Sonoras. Her piece for piano and electronics at the 17th Visiones Sonoras International Festival of Music and New Technologies.
- Tiempo de Adviento. Accompanying pianist in the Christmas concert series of the SEDECULTA Taller de Ópera.
- Mujeres Músicas Contemporáneas. Founded and organised the first edition of the cultural project that brings women’s work in music to light.
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2020
- Encuentro Internacional de Mujeres en el Canto — Quito, Ecuador. Accompanying pianist for the women’s choir Voces Claras de Yucatán.
- Film music. Scores for the short films Arañas and En mi hogar by Elías Israel Pérez Chacón, Promesas de libertad by Deifi Lizama and Buñuelos para Clara by Josue Moguel, and for the animated film Vientos de invierno by Elías Israel Pérez Chacón.
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2019
- Composition prize — Estampa Yucateca. Winner of the chamber music category at the First Encuentro de Músicos de Cámara y Sinfónicos Yucatecos. World premiere conducted by Lanfranco Marcelletti Jr.
- Premiere of Bullying. Her piece for solo piano at the Piano y Música de Cámara recital.
- Film music — Xi'im. Score, music production and sound design for the short film by Elías Israel Pérez Chacón.
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2018
- Ciclo Primicias — Chamber music. Miaskovsky’s Cello Sonata in A minor, op. 81, with the cellist Esaí Hernández.
- Piano recital. Works by Chopin and Moszkowski.
- Ciclo Primicias — Chamber music recital. Works by Silvestre Revueltas and José Rolón, with the sopranos Tere Canto and Carolina Solís.
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2016
- Berlin, Germany. Accompanying pianist for the Niños Cantores de Yucatán during the Mexico–Germany Dual Year, including the opening of the exhibition Mayas: el lenguaje de la belleza at the Martin-Gropius-Bau.
- Clásicos del futuro. Her compositions Iberia, Su imaginación and Incertidumbre de una decisión at the Nuevos Valores de la Música de Concierto concert.
- Premiere of Canción de una noche. For guitar duo, performed by the Dúo Puente Clavijero.
- FICMAYA. Accompanying pianist for the Niños Cantores de Yucatán at the festival’s opening and events around Filippa Giordano’s performance.
- Festival Internacional de Coros de Yucatán. Accompanying pianist for the Niños Cantores de Yucatán.
- Nuevos Valores de la Música de Concierto — Chamber music. Works by Erik Satie and Robert Schumann.
