Josu De Solaun Soto
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Josu De Solaun Soto (born October 27, 1981) is a Spanish classical music pianist and recent winner of the First Grand Prize at the XV José Iturbi International Piano Competition, held every two years. He is the first pianist from Spain to have ever been awarded the prize in the 25 years of its existence and is a protegé of Cuban virtuoso Horacio Gutiérrez. He currently resides in New York city and is a Doctoral student at the Manhattan School of Music. His previous teachers are Maria Teresa Naranjo, a pupil of Magda Tagliaferro, and Nina Svetlanova, a pupil of Heinrich Neuhaus.
