Welcome to RITE 2026, the Festival d'Arts Contemplatives taking place from May 29 to 31

Dani de Morón is one of the most personal flamenco guitarists of his generation. Trained in a deep and demanding tradition, his playing carries the memory of Morón de la Frontera while speaking with a voice of his own. His guitar has a dry elegance — no need for excess — and a way of saying things that seems to come from very deep inside.

Rita Payés and Lucía Fumero share a close musical space, made of songs that breathe and a finely tuned dialogue between voice, trombone and piano. Both come from jazz, but their music opens naturally toward popular song and Mediterranean sonorities. When they play together, the music seems to move without haste, leaving room for fragility and complicity.

Philosopher, writer and teacher, Juan Evaristo Valls Boix thinks through some of the most pressing tensions of our time: exhaustion, productivity and the difficulty of stopping. His gaze opens a space to reclaim rest and care as forms of resistance. Within RITE, his thought helps put words to a central intuition: stopping, doing nothing, can be the highest expression of pleasure and celebration.

This lineup brings together some of the most powerful voices in international jazz today. Simon Moullier's vibraphone, Avishai Cohen's trumpet, Shai Maestro's piano and Antonio Sánchez's drums sit alongside a top-class rhythmic and melodic section. It is a proposal built from the risk of the instant, where improvisation becomes a form of shared intelligence.

Anna Ferrer and Valeria Mata propose a meeting between music, anthropology and craft. Drawing on bread and the family memory of bakeries, they build a piece in which hands, voice and remembrance take centre stage. Their work transforms a gesture as common as making bread into a way of listening to where we come from.

Rocío Molina is one of the leading figures of contemporary flamenco. A bailaora and choreographer of exceptional force, she works from the flamenco root to carry it into unexpected territories. Her body does not illustrate emotion: it sets it in play before the audience, with a presence that can be fierce, vulnerable and profoundly free.

Sara Torres and Alicia Valdés share an inquiry into the body, desire and the forms of relationship. Through writing, thought and psychoanalysis, they open questions about how we affect one another and how we build bonds. Their conversation will turn around pleasure, desire and excess.

Ghalia Benali's voice and Romina Lischka's viola da gamba meet in a dialogue between musical traditions of East and West. Their work moves through early music, Arabic poetry and forms of sonic spirituality without reducing them to a simple fusion. The result is an experience of great intensity, close to prayer and to inner journey.

Samora Pinderhughes is a composer, pianist, vocalist and multidisciplinary artist. His work begins from music to open spaces of memory, mourning and collective healing. With a gaze deeply committed to social justice, Pinderhughes turns the stage into a place to listen to stories that often remain outside the dominant narrative.

A poet, playwright, actor and director, Pablo Rosal works with the word as a space to honour our humanity. His theatre often starts from seemingly simple situations to open larger questions about how we speak, how we listen, and what happens when language stops running on autopilot. His work has humour, lucidity and a strange ability to leave us a little more awake.

Shai Maestro is one of the most distinguished pianists and composers in contemporary jazz. His music has a uniquely narrative quality: each piece seems to unfold like a story being built in real time. In quartet form, this universe gains depth and breadth, with a way of playing that calls for full attention.

Trumpeter, singer and composer Alba Careta leads a jazz project with a luminous energy deeply rooted in the group. Her music combines original compositions with a living relationship to song and the Catalan sonic landscape. Alba Careta Group brings to RITE a proposal full of movement, where intensity never loses the sense of listening.

Danish guitarist and composer Jakob Bro has crafted a highly recognisable language within today's European jazz. His music does not seek to fill the space, but to let it vibrate. Notes appear with precision, surrounded by silence, as if each sound opened a landscape. It is a proposal especially attuned to slow, contemplative listening.

Siwan, the project led by Norwegian composer and pianist Jon Balke, explores the links between Arab music, the Andalusian tradition and the European baroque. The proposal creates a sonic space of refined beauty, where different cultural memories coexist without losing their singularity. At RITE, Siwan can open a listening experience that speaks of passage, hospitality and conviviality.

Antonio Sánchez gathers Thana Alexa, Michael League and Shai Maestro in an expansive proposal, open to voice, rhythm and contemporary improvisation. It is a lineup of great stage presence, capable of moving between the precision of jazz and a more hybrid energy. The result points to music that is alive, intense and aware of the present.

Diálogos de Virupa is a space for conversation around contemplative practice and the questions that run through everyday life. With Lama Ngawang Norbu, Berta Sáenz and Gloria Cagigal, the podcast brings Buddhist wisdom closer to contemporary concerns without losing depth.