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Pianist Alice Sara Ott makes her first ever concert appearance in Turkey
At the age of 4, Ott started piano lessons with a Hungarian teacher. At the age of 13 she was awarded the most promising artist at the Hamamatsu International Piano Academy Competition, and two years later she was given first prize in the Silvio Bengali International Piano Competition, which she took part in as the youngest contestant.
Commenting on her success that came at such an early age, the humble pianist says that it is never one person alone who is succeeding, but the help, the support and the love of the many, many people around her. “It is very important for me to keep learning and to be thankful in every moment,” Ott said, adding that she does not feel any responsibility because of the prizes but that every musician should feel an immense responsibility for the music itself.
Following her debut album, “Études d’exécution transcendante,” which featured pieces from Liszt, Ott recently released her second record on the same Deutsche Grammophon label. Her new album includes the complete waltzes of Chopin with which she will delight the Turkish audience tonight.
“I’ve always been fascinated by Chopin’s waltzes. He composed them all through his life, from early youth until shortly before his death. His whole life and his personality are reflected in the waltzes. ... They say that home isn’t a place but a feeling. I can identify with how torn Chopin felt, because I also grew up and live between two cultures. Neither in Germany nor in Japan do I have a proper homeland. In both countries I’m regarded as a foreigner. For me, too, music is the only place where I really feel at home,” Ott stresses.
Playing with an orchestra is also very special for Ott. Her debut orchestral recording featuring the first piano concertos of Tchaikovsky and Liszt, with the Münchner Philharmoniker under Thomas Hengelbrock, will also be released this year. “There is nothing more beautiful than to speak and talk to people through music and to create a common music and atmosphere. And even if I am playing many concerts with the same orchestra, every stage is different and we all together have to be flexible in the ‘moment.’ It is like chamber music,” she says.
The Munich-based artist is currently a student at Mozarteum Salzburg and studies with professor Karl-Heinz Kämmerling. For more information, visit http://www.alice-sara-ott.com
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