Spanish-American pianist Josu de Solaun has won the first prizes at both the Jose Iturbi (2006) and George Enescu (2014) international piano competitions.

Spanish-American pianist Josu de Solaun has won the first prizes at both the Jose Iturbi (2006) and George Enescu (2014) international piano competitions. He has performed, in distinguished concert halls around the world, including the Romanian Athenaeum (Bucharest), Mariinsky Theater (St. Petersburg), Kennedy Center (Washington), Carnegie Hall and Metropolitan Opera (New York), Southbank Center (London), Salle Cortot (Paris), Schumann Haus (Leipzig), Novel Hall (Taipei), Sala Silvestre Revueltas (Mexico City), and as a soloist with orchestra like the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, RTÉ Orchestra of Du- blin, National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia and of Mexico, George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra of Bucharest, Radio Orchestras of Bucharest and Prague, Radio and Television Orchestra and National Orchestra of Spain.

Trained from a young age by musician Salvador Chuliá, pianists María Teresa Naranjo and Ana Guijarro in Spain, and later in New York by pianists Nina Svetlanova and Horacio Gutiérrez, he has been able to showcase his musical artistry as a recital pianist, composer, conductor, improviser, chamber musician and soloist. He was twice awarded (in 2021 and 2023) the prestigious International Classical Music Awards (ICMA), and was named Officer of the Order of Cultural Merit of the Republic of Romania (2019). In 2024 he released an album with the Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra for the IBS Classical label, playing Prokofiev’s Piano concert no.2 and Rachmaninov’s Piano concerto no.3. In 2025 he will release a double-CD of Chopin’s Mazurkas for the same label, as well as Bernstein’s The Age of Anxiety with the ADDA Simfónica Orchestra of Alicante for the Aria Classics label.