Name Alice Ott | Role Classical pianist | |
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Education Mozarteum University of Salzburg Similar People Olafur Arnalds, Francesco Tristano Schlime, Mona Asuka Ott, Thomas Hengelbrock, Franz Liszt | ||
Interview Alice Sara Ott
Alice Sara Ott (born August 1, 1988) is a German classical pianist.
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Biography
Ott was born in Munich, Germany, in 1988; her Japanese mother had studied piano in Tokyo, and her father was a German civil engineer. According to herself, she realised as a child that "music was the language that goes much beyond any words" and that she wanted to communicate and express herself through music. She started piano lessons when she was four, and reached the final stage of the youth competition in Munich at the age of five, playing to a full house in the Hercules Hall.
From the age of twelve, she studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling while continuing her school education in Munich. Ott has won awards at a number of piano competitions, including first prize at the 2004 Pianello Val Tidone Competition. She has made recordings of Franz Liszt's Transcendental Etudes and Frédéric Chopin's waltzes for Deutsche Grammophon, and is currently performing concert tours in Europe, Japan, and the United States.
Her sister Mona Asuka Ott is also a professional pianist.
Awards
Ott has won many international competitions since winning the Jugend musiziert competition in Germany when she was seven years old. In 2002 she was the youngest finalist at the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan where she won the Most Promising Artist award. She won first prize in the 2003 Bach Competition in Köthen, Germany, the 2004 Pianello Val Tidone Competition in Italy, and the 4th EPTA (European Piano Teachers Association) International Competition in 2005.
Recordings
Ott has a recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon and her recordings include:
