"Exemplary in both programming and performance"
--Pittsburgh Post Gazette

"An exceptional group because of their clean playing, energy, and freshness."
--Le Monde de La Musique

"Cuarteto Latinoamericano gives a spirited, crisply clean, and sympathetic performance well worth seeking out."
--The American Record Guide

"MEXICAN QUARTET IS A GREAT START TO FESTIVAL...a superb representative of Mexican musical art - the Cuarteto Latinoamericano - playing works of composers from Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. What a wise choice of the symphony: to let Latin Americans speak for their own music. The group will join the orchestra, along with soprano Heidi Grant Murphy tonight...

The quartet's sense of ensemble was extraordinary considering the precision and balance among the four. Regardless of speed or dynamic level or complexity of the music, they played as one. The fast movements were as compelling as the slow ones, especially when Bitran, with his immaculate musicality and handsome focused tone, waqs given a spotlight.

The program gathered together some of the great names of 20th-century Latin American music: Silvestre Revueltas of Mexico, Villa-Lobos of Brazil and Astor Piazzolla and Alberto Ginastera of Argentina. Mario Lavista, born in Mexico City in 1943, is only one of the bunch still alive. The survey was an informed one, with some evocative music from Revueltas ("Musica De Feria") and a shimmering, reflective work from Lavista ("Reflejos de la noches"). There were two string quartets: No. 17 of Villa-Lobos and No. 2 of Ginastera. I have never heard either one played more persuasively or with great insight".
-Seattle Post Intelligencer,
May 8, 2003

"The Cuarteto Latinoamericano's emphasis on music by composers from Central and South America has rarely sounded more powerful than it did during Sunday afternoon's scintillating recital in Berkeley's Hertz Hall...the ensemble concentrated almost exclusively on recent music by Latino composers who live in the United States, and the results were invigorating...and the quartet played them superbly.
-San Francisco Chronicle, May 6, 2003

"The Cuarteto Latinoamericano is increasingly making a name for itself in international music circles...The ensemble plays with a lean, sinewy brilliance and edgy virtuosity that suit their preference for contemporary music. Those qualities were heard to excellent effect Friday night at Florida International University's New Music Miami ISCM Festival at the Wolfsonian Museum. If the styles of composers represented were hightly divergent, the shared Latin influence was palpable in their strong rhythmic energy...Saturday afternoon's program presented a wide array of music for strings and tape, with some works combining both elements".
- Miami Sun Sentinel
April 14, 2003