Alice Sara Ott and Edo De Waart join forces in Washington

2/6/2017

Alice Sara Ott returns to Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra to perform Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1 in three concerts on 8, 9 and 10 June.

Under the baton of Edo de Waart, the programme also includes Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 3 and Mason Bates’ Garages of the Valley, the latter being dedicated to him. Edo will conduct the work again next month with the Music Academy of the West along with Rachmaninov’s Symphony No.2.

Alice’s highlights for the 2017/18 season include performances in London for the International Piano Series and Liszt’s Totentanz with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Antonio Pappano. She will also give recitals in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Sichuan and Beijing and return to the US this autumn to give concerts with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Paavo Järvi.

“Her technique is dazzling, her tone wonderfully varied, from crystalline purity to powerfully raw, and the energy propelling her playing seems unstoppable.”
(The Guardian)

“Alice Sara Ott proved a highly individual soloist in Beethoven’s serious-minded Third Piano Concerto. It can seldom have been played with quite so much brittle clarity — it felt at times as if she was attempting to emulate the sound of a fortepiano on a heavier modern instrument, but it worked a treat in the Concerto’s filigree passagework.”

**** DAVID KETTLE, THE SCOTSMAN, MAY 2017

“The fierceness with which the climax of the minor-key variations was presented, turned out to be a foretaste of the Liszt sonata, which was unflinchingly raw and direct, with snarling basslines and razor-edged chords. The performance did indeed conjure up the kind of threatening world Ott had spoken of, but it was presented with such technical brilliance, so crisply and cleanly articulated, that nothing was overbearing or overinsistent, but always dramatic and absorbing.”

ANDREW CLEMENTS, THE GUARDIAN, OCTOBER 2017

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