Twenty one year old German-Japanese pianist, Alice Sara Ott has astounded audiences and critics alike at major concert halls throughout Europe and Japan. This season’s performance highlights include recitals at the Auditorium du Louvre, Adler Series Berlin, Konzerthaus Wien and concerts with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR Sinfonieorchester, and Münchner Philharmoniker. In 2010/11 she will perform with the Philharmonia and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras.
Recent seasons have seen Alice give numerous performances in Tokyo, including concerts with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra at the Opera City Hall, and with the Kiev Philharmonic Orchestra at the Suntory Hall. She regularly appears with the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra and was invited by Hiroko Nakamura to inaugurate the final round of the popular ten-year series “The 100 Pianists”.
In addition to her solo activities Alice is a keen chamber musician and makes regular appearances at the festivals in Heimbach, Zurich, Davos and Schwetzingen alongside artists such as Lars Vogt, Gustav Rivinius, Tadjana Masurenko and Peter Sadlo. Alice also frequently performs in recital at the Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Braunschweig Classix Festival.
In May 2008 Alice Sara Ott signed as an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist. Her debut recording featuring the 12 Études d’exécution transcendante by Franz Liszt was released in autumn 2008 and a second disc encompassing the complete waltzes of Frederic Chopin is scheduled for release in Europe and Japan in January 2010. Alice’s debut orchestral disc will feature the First Piano Concertos of Liszt and Tchaikovsky, with Thomas Hengelbrock conducting the Münchner Philharmoniker.
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