Alice sara ott parents
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Biography
Profound musicianship, dazzling technical brilliance and emotional honesty have helped Alice Sara Ott establish her place among the world’s leading classical performers, as reflected by a total number of album streams that has now topped 500 million. The German-Japanese musician’s poetic pianism, hailed by critics for its refinement and intensity, has drawn favourable comparisons with great artists from the past. She has also won plaudits for her innovative approach to programming and openness to artistic adventure. Ott’s dynamic music-making is guided by a desire to connect with the essential spirit of the works in her repertoire; above all, it flows from her innate ability to channel an apparently inexhaustible supply of expressive nuance and imaginative insight into every performance.
Alice Sara Ott signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon in 2008. She announced her arrival on the label the following year with an acclaimed album of Liszt’s Etudes d’exécution transcendante. Her second album, comprising Chopin’s complete waltzes, was issued in January 2
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Alice Sara Ott
At the age of 13 she was already well into international music competitions, carrying away "The Most Promising Artist Award" in Hamamatsu, Japan and other major trophies. Two years later, Alice Sara Ott attracted a good deal of attention when she won the first prize in the "Silvio Bengalli" International Piano Competition as the youngest contestant by far, qualifying for the highest number of points ever given in the history of the competition. This again was accompanied by special awards.
Since then, the German-Japanese pianist and student of Karl-Heinz Kaemmerling at the Salzburg Mozarteum has appeared in numerous concert halls in Europe and Japan as for example the Bad Kissingen Summer Festival, the Classix Festival in Brunswick, the Mecklenburg/Vorpommern Festival, the side-events programme staged in connection with the Bayreuth Festival, the Leipzig Bach Festival and the Prize-winners' Concert given at the Salzburg Festival. In 2005 a dazzling performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 given in Sapporo with the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra under the ba
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Alice Sara Ott
German-Japanese pianist (born 1988)
Alice Sara Ott (Japanese: アリス＝紗良・オット, Hepburn: Arisu Sara Otto, born August 1, 1988) is a German-Japanese pianist.
Early life and education
Ott was born in Munich, Germany, in 1988. Her Japanese mother had studied piano in Tokyo; her father was a German civil engineer.[1] She says 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.[2] Ott started piano lessons at the age of four. At age five, she reached the final stage of the youth competition in Munich, playing to a full house in the Hercules Hall.[2] At age seven, she won the Jugend musiziert competition in Germany.[3] In 2002, Ott was the youngest finalist at the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan, where she won the Most Promising Artist award.[4][5] From the age of twelve, she studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling[4] while continuing her school edu
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