The odyssey of the Spanish pianist who fled Israel after winning an award: "The stress, being trapped, the noise of the sirens, the explosions… it's a nightmare"

On May 4, Juan Pérez Floristán won first prize in the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition, which is held in Tel Aviv every three years.. And not only that: he also won the audience award, the best performance of Beethoven and the chamber music award.. A happy situation that ended up turning into an ordeal for the young Sevillian pianist, one of the most outstanding on the international scene.

“I went to a piano contest that is the most important in the world, or of the three