Josu de Solaun

Josu De Solaun has garnered recognition from critics like Nikolaus Frey (Fuldaer Zeitung) for his "poetic sense of sound, bold artistic vision, and brilliant virtuoso skills, always and totally at the service of the works he performs." He's a two-time awardee of the prestigious International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) in 2021 for chamber music and in 2023 as the best soloist.In the 2023 edition, the ICMA jury expressed: "Josu de Solaun is one of the most impressive discoveries of the past decade. Not only is he a technically impressive pianist, but his interpretative imagination also knows no limits." He is also the sole Spanish pianist to win first prizes at the José Iturbi (2006) and George Enescu (2014) international piano competitions since their inception in 1980 and 1958. In August 2023, he recorded Prokofiev's Concerto No. 2 and Rachmaninov's Concerto No. 3.