”Javier Alvarez, composer who forged a powerful hybrid of Mexican and European music.
‘I’m interested in things that move you, and not only emotionally, but things that make you get out of your seat’
Telegraph Obituaries
”The music of Javier Alvarez reveals influences of popular cultures that go beyond the borders of our own time and place, and his work is representative of an immensely important trend in the arts.
John Adams
”Javier Alvarez (Mexico City, 1956) is probably the most interesting Mexican musician born in the 1950’s. An alert musical intelligence, sustained by the command of a plurality of techniques and an eclectic perspective has yielded a vigorous and multifaceted oeuvre with a highly original evolution.