BIX TOP ACT: MARCO MEZQUIDA

Born in Menorca in 1987, the versatile pianist, improviser and composer MARCO MEZQUIDA is the embodiment of musical passion and is considered one of the most lively figures on the Spanish jazz scene.

Terms such as "child prodigy", "piano magician" and "magnetic" are often used to describe the impressive range of his work.
The multi-award-winning pianist MARCO MEZQUIDA has already enchanted the world's major jazz festivals and important concert halls such as the Cologne Philharmonie, the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Kulturarena Jena and many more.

He presents himself and his music on stage full of musical joy, peppered with musical experiments, such as incorporating the sound of directly struck piano strings, when he does not immediately disappear into the resonating body of his grand piano, where he uses an infinite number of technical and aesthetic means such as bells, tambourine or drum to elicit unfamiliar sounds from the plucked prepared strings of the instrument in a unique way.

As a multiplier of musical presences, his acclaimed solo piano concerts can be understood as a one-man orchestra. With his spectacular mixture of melodious sounds, vitality, tangos, flamencos and buleras, Marco Mezquida succeeds in making every moment as intense and fresh as possible. Folklore gives his music a special splash of color, but the heartbeat of each piece is determined by modern jazz with its artful arcs of tension. He incorporates only minimal traditional influences, instead inventing his own music.

The great composer and top flamenco musician works with unusual and unique methods in the instrumentation of his pieces. As an explorer of sounds and creator of atmospheres, he presents an incomparably versatile spectrum of expression beyond all conventional genre boundaries in various projects and in collaboration with international flamenco and jazz greats.