Juan Pérez Floristán (born in 1993) is a Spanish classical pianist.

Biography and career

He was born in

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in 1993. He has been in contact with important personalities of the music world, both in Spain and abroad:

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, Elisabeth Leonskaja,

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, Claudio Martínez-Mehner,

Menahem Pressler Menahem Pressler (; 16 December 1923 – 6 May 2023) was a German-born Israeli-American pianist and academic teacher. He was known for his work with the Beaux Arts Trio that he co-founded in 1955, playing until its dissolution in 2008, in hund ...

, Ana Guijarro and Ralf Gothóni. As student of

Reina Sofía School of Music The Reina Sofía School of Music (Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Spanish) is a private music school founded in Madrid, Spain, in 1991 by Paloma O'Shea. It belongs to the Albéniz Foundation, and it bears the name of its Honorary Pr ...

, he trained under

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. After that, he went on to continue his studies at Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin with

Eldar Nebolsin Eldar Nebolsin (born 1974) is an Uzbek-born classical pianist. Biography Born in Uzbekistan (then part of the Soviet Union) in 1974 to a Russian father from Ukhta and a mother from Tashkent, Nebolsin started studying piano at early age in hi ...

, a former student of Reina Sofía School of Music himself. Juan Pérez Floristán won the first prize and audience award of the 2015 Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition in Spain. In 2018 he won the first prize of the ''Kissinger Klavierolymp'' (Kissingen Piano Olympics) in Germany. In May 2021 won the first prize of the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, which took place in

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Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his Symphony No. 1 (Shostakovich), First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded ...

Piano Concerto No. 2. *

Rachmaninoff Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff; in Russian pre-revolutionary script. (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of ...

Piano Concerto No. 2 during the finals of the 2015 Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition, with the Spanish Radio Television Symphony Orchestra. {{DEFAULTSORT:Perez Floristan, Juan Prize-winners of the Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition Living people Spanish male classical pianists 1993 births 21st-century Spanish classical pianists 21st-century Spanish male musicians Spanish male musicians