"Garcia Torres took the stage front and center and the air became filled with the composer's chromatic runs spun in delicate filigrees. Delicacy was the key ingredient, the major approach and the best description. The Concerto flowed from Garcia Torres' fingers with supreme effortlessness."  (Connecticut Post)

"It was Fernando Garcia Torres who more than conquered the Guanajuato audience with his perfectly accomplished interpretation of Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini", transmitting the expressive power of this difficult work to the public and gaining their long and enthusiastic applause."  
(El Nacional, Guanajuato)

"Garcia Torres's performance was exhilarating. And not just to the audience. The players stopped being a group of musicians and exploded as a full symphony orchestra in vivacious conversation with a gifted soloist."   (Bozeman Chronicle)

"Garcia has a confident and invigorating — yet well tempered — performance style. He has attained that charismatic perfection that places him among keyboard greats. I was reminded of the artistry of Jorge Bolet."  
(Atencion San Miguel)

"Fernando Garcia Torres's interpretations were amazingly assured and at the same time refreshingly spontaneous. This musicality and the elastic synthesis of new sonorities were especially noteworthy in the contemporary Mexican compositions."   (Bonner Rundschau)

"The program chosen by Fernando Garcia Torres for this Chopin Recital was characterized above all by its balance and variety. His interpretation was agile and well-modulated in the Scherzo, pliant and sensual in the Mazurkas, liquid and flowing in the encores by Debussy."   (La Jornada)

"The two Chopin Etudes made us wish they were followed by many more — Fernando Garcia Torres was revealed as a great musician and an excellent pianist."   (La Tribune, Annecy)