Mona Asuka Ott

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Mona Asuka Ott
Born (1991-01-01) 1 January 1991 (age 30)
Education Mozarteum University of Salzburg
OccupationPianist

Mona Asuka Ott (Mona Asuka, Born 1991 in Munich) is a German pianist and the younger sister of Alice Sara Ott. [1]

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Early life and education

Mona Asuka Ott was born in Munich in 1991; her Japanese mother had studied piano in Tokyo and her father was a German civil engineer. [2] She gave her first public performance on the piano at the age of four. She was taught, like her sister Alice Sara Ott, by Karl-Heinz Kämmerling at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg.

In 1997, at the age of six, she was rated sixth in Group 1 (Under 8) of the International Competition Classica Nova In Memoriam Dmitri Shostakovich (Hanover, 1997). [3]

She won first prizes at the Grotrian-Steinweg competition in Brunswick; the Jugend Musiziert and at the EPTA International Piano Competition in Osijek.

She made her orchestral debut aged 13. [4]

In 2006 she was a finalist at the 11th Hamamatsu International Piano Academy Competition in Hamamatsu (Japan). [5] She also received the audience prize at the Kissinger Piano Olympics at Bad Kissingen. [6]

In September 2008 she appeared in the special concert of the "Piano furioso" foundation in the Small Hall of the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg.

From 2009 she studied with Bernd Glemser at the University of Music Würzburg. She received several grants, including the Degussa Foundation and the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.

Career

Mona Asuka Ott joined, among others, the Ruhr Piano Festival, the Festival de La Roque-d'Anthéron, the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Kissingen Sommer on Franconian Music Days and the Brunswick Classix Festival. [4]

She has conducted orchestral performances with the Philharmonic State Orchestra of Halle – Staatskapelle Halle, the Hofer Symphoniker, the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra, the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz and the Munich Symphony Orchestra. [4]

Discography

Mona Asuka's debut CD album was released on 28 July 2017 by the Oehms Classics label, and featured the piano compositions of Franz Schubert and Franz Liszt. Tracks include: [4]

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References

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  2. Durrant, Sabine (20 November 2011). "Alice Sara Ott: 'I don't want to have burn-out syndrome'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
  3. "Classica Nova Competition Cycle". classicanova.biz. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Mona Asuka plays Schubert and Liszt – Oehms: OC1871 – CD or download | Presto Classical". www.prestoclassical.co.uk. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  5. "Prizewinners of last Academies". Hamamatsu International Piano Academy. 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  6. Kissingen, Bayerisches Staatsbad Bad Kissingen, Stadt Bad. "Kissinger Sommer – Internationales Musikfestival , Kissinger Piano Olympics". www.kissingersommer.de. Retrieved 10 March 2018.