Marco Mezquida is no longer a rising star but a reality of Spanish music scene. At 28 years old minorcan pianist has received three consecutive Award Musician of the Year by the Association of Jazz of Catalonia (2011­‐2013) and several prices because of his intense activity.

He started studying classical music at 7 years old, and years later he studied jazz and improvisation at the piano and the organ. He graduated in 2009 at the High School of Music of Catalonia studying with teachers such Agustí Fernández, Lluis Vidal and Albert Bover.

Mezquida is a versatile and talented musician who has recorded 35 albums, 10 of them as the leader and he develops his own compositions, improvisations and arrangements. His album "My Friend Marko" (Fresh Sound New Talent) with his own trio has received rave reviews and an award from the magazine Enderrock in 2014, and his first piano solo álbum "La hora fértil” (The Fertile Time, Whatabout music) has been released in different festivals and concert halls in Spain, Belgium and Switzerland.

He has performed in over 30 countries on 4 continents, from America to Japan, with some of the best and most influential musicians and groups of the Spanish jazz scene as Jorge Rossy, Giulia Valle Group, Marc Miralta Quartet, Perico Sambeat... and acting in some of the most important international best European jazz festivals and clubs as the Blue Note in New York, the SF Jazz in San Francisco, the ATrane Berlin, Munich Unterfarht, Porgy and Bess Vienna, Bimhuis Amsterdam, and St. Petersburg JKF. He often plays at Jamboree Jazz Club in Barcelona, where he actually lives.

He has been soloist playing jazz and classical in several chamber orchestras as Balearic Symphony Orquestra, and big bands. He has recorded several music programs for televisión composed music for the theatre. He has won several jazz competitions in Spain with his own trio and solo. He has studied in different masterclasses with great musicians like John Taylor, Fred Hersch, Aaron Goldberg and Dave Kikosky. Actually, Mezquida combines his tour concerts with teaching, being professor at the High School of Music of Taller de Músics and at Liceum Conservatoire.

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