Albert Marquès is a pianist, composer and activist. Influenced by the local punk scene in his hometown of Granollers, Spain, as well as jazz recordings by musicians such as Chick Corea, Brad Mehldau, Michel Camilo and Herbie Hancock, he graduated from the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu in Barcelona. In Barcelona he played with the best musicians in the jazz scene before moving to Paris, where he played with musicians such as Remi Vignolo and Pierre Perchaud as well as becoming the pianist in the American drummer Leon Parker’s quartet. At 25, he moved to New York City where he met his mentor Arturo O’Farrill, who hired him to teach at the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance, a non-profit organization that offers free Latin jazz music classes in underprivileged New York public schools. He has recorded four albums as a leader and regularly collaborates with rhythm master Ari Hoenig and flamenco singer and saxophonist Antonio Lizana, as well as with the saxophonist and composer Roy Nathanson, bassist Matthew Garrison, keyboardist Brian Jackson, double bassist William Parker and trumpeter Adam O’Farrill, among others.