Marco Mezquida (piano, compositions), Martin Meléndez (cello), Aleix Tobias (drums, percussions)

One of the most unique, brilliant and magnetic figures on the music scene today. This Menorca-born pianist and composer is an internationally renowned musician who has built a career that is all freedom and intensity, with an artistic personality that is constantly evolving. A true virtuoso, nothing short of chameleonic on the piano, versatile improviser and inspired composer, his music resides in a territory that is his and his alone, where Jazz, free improvisation, classical music, folklore, pop and Mediterranean tradition live together with no bother whatsoever.

A regular visitor to Jazzaldia, Mezquida has recorded more than twenty albums as leader, and featured in another forty or so as sideman or collaborator. He has taken his music to auditoriums and festivals all over the world: Tokyo, London, Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, Barcelona.

He has worked with artists such as Silvia Pérez Cruz, Salvador Sobral, Andrea Motis, Noa, Lee Konitz, Dave Liebman, Billy Hart or Jorge Rossy, among many others, and has done a great deal of highly acclaimed work in the solo piano format, with five albums, recorded live or in a studio, that reflect his unique physical and emotional relationship with the instrument.

One of the fundamental pillars of his creative universe is the trio he shares with Aleix Tobías and Martín Meléndez, a group that began with Los Sueños de Ravel (2017) and was later consolidated with Talismán (2020) and Letter to Milos (2022). With this group, Mezquida has given us some of his most personal works, without labels or constraints, where composition and improvisation merge to voice something that is absolute freedom. His influences range from Granados, Albéniz, Liszt, Chopin or Ravel to Keith Jarrett, Eliseo Parra or Coetus. His music throbs with luminosity, vital and deeply human, sustained by the rhythmic inventiveness of Aleix Tobías and the expressive imagination of Martín Meléndez's cello.

At this year?s Jazzaldia, Marco Mezquida will present T?ctil, his new album, which he has produced himself, released in February 2026. After ten years of exceptionally intense artistic collaboration, the trio has reached full sonic maturity, showing that it is a unique entity, a single musical body with a common, deep, coherent voice. T?ctil is born out of an essential desire: to recover the physical and sensory dimension of music, vouching for touch, skin, vibration and gesture as the origin of sound. Pounding the piano, scratching and rubbing on the strings, and caressing or gently smacking the membranes to construct music that is generated from presence, closeness and meaningful attention via the ear.

The album is also a declaration of love for life, for sound and for people. A work born out of the brightest joy and the deepest sadness. "?I have never loved so much. I have never cried so much inside. I have never lived so intensely,? writes Mezquida, alluding to a creative process informed by shared emotion and brotherhood. TÁCTIL is not alien to the world we live in. In his notes, the musician bluntly addresses the injustices and atrocities of recent years, especially the violence meted out to the Palestinian people in Gaza, to whose dignity and yearning for freedom he dedicates this work. In the face of pain, music becomes, here, a source of refuge, a driving force and a vital necessity.

Marco Mezquida, Aleix Tobías and Martín Meléndez invite us into a musical experience; an experience to be not only heard, but touched and felt; which will leave something etched in us.