Rita Payés & Xavi Torres – “SUSPENDED”

Palma / Teatre Municipal Xesc Forteza

SUNDAY, 3 DECEMBER 2023, AT 19:00H.

Rita Payés, trombone and voices

Xavi Torres, piano

 

Rita Payés and Xavi Torres are two very active musicians with a multitude of projects underway. In recent years, they have performed on very diverse stages and with different groups, but after a first premiere in Barcelona, this will be the second time they come together, as a duo, on stage, with the freedom that this entails.

For this festival appointment, they have prepared a very special repertoire sharing the music they love most, with a great variety of styles ranging from original compositions, boleros, jazz standards, Brazilian music, or even pop songs with jazz annotations. They will navigate between highly compositional moments and others of complete and genuine freedom, with the timbral richness and depth of textures that characterise their musical language, creating moments of rhythmic tension contrasted with delicate and melodic landscapes, taking the audience on a journey from the beginning to the end of the concert.

The young trombonist and singer Rita Payés (who is 24 years old) is one of the talents to have emerged from the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, a breeding ground that has given us some of the most promising musicians in our jazz scene, such as Andrea Motis. At the Goya Awards 2022, she starred in one of the most notable moments of the ceremony with her performance of the song “Te venero” alongside C. Tangana.

In addition to her unique voice, Rita Payés particularly shines when playing her inseparable trombone, an instrument she is a virtuoso on. The young woman from Barcelona has built a brilliant career working with names such as Joan Chamorro, Ignasi Terraza, and Esteve Pi. She has also performed duo concerts with her mother, Elisabeth Roma.

Xavi Torres is one of the most promising jazz musicians in the European jazz scene. A composer and pianist, his training in classical music and jazz at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya and the Conservatory of Amsterdam gives him mastery of the instrument and versatility in the language, with which he has excelled in competitions such as the Keep An Eye International Jazz Award and the Thelonious Monk Jazz Piano Competition.