Mona Asuka Ott
“...from the first note to the last, there was a most decided sense of instrumental perfection and sensitive diction for Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto.” (Neue Musikzeitung)
BIOGRAPHY
Highlights of the 2011/12 season include concerts with the Münchner Symphoniker at Munich’s Philharmonie am Gasteig with the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa and an extensive tour of Japan with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and Ivor Bolton. In addition to orchestral engagements, solo recitals will lead her to Stuttgart, Gstaad, Elmau and Istanbul. A little further ahead she will give her debut recital at the Tonhalle Zürich.
In February 2011, Mona Asuka Ott received the Festival Prize for artistic achievement at the Sommets Musicaux Festvial in Gstaad, and in 2006 the Audience Award at the Bad Kissingen Piano Olympics.
Her debut recital at the Piano Festival Ruhr was met with great enthusiasm. The Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung remarked: “The young pianist glows with enthusiasm…but then proves that for all this vigour and exuberance has a keen sense of what lies between the notes and a sensitive awareness of tempo.” A recording of this concert was released by the Ruhr Piano Festival as a portrait CD.
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"The young pianist Mona Asuka Ott impressed all at the Klavierfestival Ruhr in the Schloss Hohenlimburg. [...] Franz Liszt’s Venezia e Napoli and the Rhapsodie espagnole were on the programme - highly virtuosic pieces to which Mona Asuka Ott brought her profound technical accomplishments, taking one’s breath away with the subtlety of her renditions. Her playing was like a roller coaster ride through the octave passages, with a thundering and wild bass register; Mona Asuka Ott was just as convincing with Liszt’s Italian and Spanish sound worlds. And her temperament showed in Chopin’s Polonaise, an heroic encore…In Franz Schubert’s posthumous three piano works D 946 she demonstrated a real sense of pose along with any amounts of sensitivity for the quieter bridges, her tempo unwavering and fitting.” (Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, May 2009)
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