Juan Pérez Floristán, who in 2015 was awarded 1st prize and the Audience Prize at the “Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition” and won 1st prize at the “Steinway Piano Competition” in Berlin and the Honorary Prize at “Juventudes Musicales de Madrid”, is one of the great hopefuls of the new generation of European musicians.
He has made his debuts in the most important cities in Europe and Latin America in a very short period of time, performing at Wigmore Hall in London, Herkulessaal in Munich, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Hall, Salle Cortot in Paris, Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid and Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, among others. He has also given concerts in Hamburg, Hanover, Zurich, Bern, Budapest, Warsaw, Turin and Milan. He has performed with orchestras such as the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta de Radio Televisión Española, the Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, the Orquesta Philarmónica de Gran Canaria, and the symphony orchestras of Barcelona, Málaga and Cordoba and has worked with conductors such as Pablo González, Jesús López Cobos, Marc Soustrot, Adrian Leaper, Juan Luis Pérez, Lorenzo Viotti, Christian Arming, Lorenzo Ramos, Pedro Halffter, Víctor Ambroa and Rubén Gimeno.
Another focus of Juan Pérez Floristán is chamber music. He regularly plays in the VibrArt Trio together with Miguel Colom (violin) and Fernando Arias (cello), with whom he received musical inspiration from Menahem Pressler and Kennedy Moretti. Also noteworthy is his collaboration with great musicians such as Abel and Arnau Tomàs (members of Cuarteto Casals), Adrien Boisseau (former violist of Quatuor Ebène), Pablo Barragán (clarinet), Andrei Ionita (winner of the Tchaikovsky Competition) and Dietrich Henschel (tenor). He has also participated in prestigious chamber music gatherings, including Verbier Festival, Santander Music and Academy Encounter, and Les Arcs Festival, where he played with the renowned Fine Arts Quartet.
His future performances outside Europe include concerts with orchestra and recitals in California, Miami, Abu Dhabi, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and Brazil, and he has already performed in Mexico, Uruguay and Panama.
He received his first piano lessons at the age of ten from his mother, María Floristán, who was his teacher and mentor. He received further musical impulses from great musical personalities such as Daniel Barenboim, Nelson Goerner, Ana Guijarro, Claudio Martínez Mehner, Menahem Pressler, Stephen Kovacevich, Klaus Hellwig, Ralf and Mark Gothoni, Jacques Zoon, Márta Gulyás, Frans Helmerson, Horacio Gutiérrez and Ferenc Rados. During his four years of study with Galina Eguiazarova at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid, the foundation for his professional career was finally laid. The young pianist is currently studying at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin with Eldar Nebolsin, who has had a strong influence on him to this day.
Thanks to the support of Elisabeth Leonskaja, Juan Pérez Floristán was invited to the Ruhr Piano Festival (2012) in Germany, where a live CD was produced, and to the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad in Switzerland. He was also supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, which was instrumental in his development, and by Juventudes Musicales de Madrid.
In 2016 Juan Pérez Floristán was awarded the “City Medal” and the “Paradize Prize” of the Friends of the Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville.