172 Juan Pérez Floristán, Piano A prolific winner of major international competitions, Spanish pianist Juan Pérez Floristán most recently won First Prize, Audience Favorite Prize, Beethoven Prize, Chamber Music Prize and the Best Performer of the Israeli Piece at the 16th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, 2021. Other major prizes include Santander International Piano Competition “Paloma O’Shea” 2015, Berlin Steinway Piano Competition 2015 and Kissinger KlavierOlymp 2018. Floristán has performed in more than 25 countries around the world in leading venues including London’s Wigmore Hall and Royal Albert Hall (BBC Proms 2019), St. Petersburg, Munich, Zürich, Budapest, Venice, Hamburg and all over Spain as well as in major music festivals throughout Europe. He made his New York debut in the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on 14 October 2021. He has been invited to perform in March 2023, Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini with the Israel Philharmonic in a concert series conducted by Lahav Shani. Juan Pérez Floristán’s repertoire includes 35 piano concertos ranging from Bach’s 5th Brandenburg Concerto to Ligeti’s Piano Concerto. Alexander Korsantia, Piano Dubbed a “quiet maverick” (Daily Telegraph), pianist Alexander Korsantia has been praised for the “clarity of his technique, richly varied tone and dynamic phrasing” (Baltimore Sun), and a “piano technique where difficulties simply do not exist” (Calgary Sun). The Boston Globe found the interpretation of his signature piece, Pictures at an Exhibition, to be “a performance that could annihilate all others one has heard.” Ever since winning Gold Medal at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition and the First Prize at the Sydney International Piano Competition, Korsantia’s career has taken him to many of the world’s major concert halls, collaborating with renowned conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach, Gianandrea Noseda, Valery Gergiev and Paavo Järvi, with such orchestras as the Chicago Symphony, Mariinsky Orchestra, RAI Orchestra, Turin, The City of Birmingham Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony and the Israel Philharmonic. Korsantia has served and is scheduled to serve on jury panels of major piano competitions such as Arthur Rubinstein, Cleveland, Hilton Head, and e-Competition. His solo piano transcription of Ravel’s La Valse was published by Sikorski Musikverlage. Lately he performed in Israel, at the Piano Festivities of the Arthur Rubinstein Society, his adaptations for Piano of two major works by Stravinsky: the first part of "The Rite of Spring" and the Music to the Ballet "Petrushka". Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, Alexander Korsantia began his musical studies at an early age with his mother, Svetlana Korsantia, and later became a pupil of Tengiz Amirejibi, Georgia’s leading piano teacher. In 1992, he moved with his family to the United States and joined the famed piano studio of fellow Georgian Alexander Toradze at Indiana University in South Bend. In his home country of Georgia, he served as Artistic Director of the Easter Festival for many years, an institution he continues to support as Artistic Advisor. He is the recipient of Georgia’s numerous prestigious awards: In 1999, he was awarded The Order of Honor, which he received from the then-president Edward Shevardnadze, the Rustaveli Prize, the National Award of Georgia (1997) and the Golden Wing Award (2015). Korsantia resides in Boston where he is a Professor of Piano on the faculty of the New England Conservatory. Opening Event
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