Myung-Whun Chung, Conductor / Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France

In less than four years, the twenty-three year old German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott has gained critical acclaim for her performances at major concert halls worldwide and has established herself as one of the most exciting musical talents of the day.
Recent concerts have seen Alice perform with the Münchner Philharmoniker, London Symphony and Tokyo Symphony orchestras, San Francisco Symphony, Wiener Symphoniker, Bamberger Symphoniker, as well as the Philharmonia Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic and Royal Scottish National orchestras. She has also toured with Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Harding and made her BBC Proms debut with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Sakari Oramo in August 2011.
Forthcoming orchestral debuts include concerts with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Euskadi Symphony Orchestra, Essen Philharmonic Orchestra and Tonkünstler Orchester, as well as returning to the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR Sinfonieorchester and Danish National Symphony Orchestra. In summer 2012 Alice tours Japan with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and Paavo Järvi, and will embark on a major European recital tour of venues in Paris, London, Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, Nürnberg, Brussels, Zaragoza and Bilbao.
Highlights of 2012-13 will include concerts with Lorin Maazel in Munich and Tokyo and several tours in Europe with a variety of different orchestras.
In addition to her solo activities Alice is a keen chamber musician, appearing at festivals such as Heimbach, Moritzburg, Davos and Schwetzingen alongside artists such as Lars Vogt, Gustav Rivinius, Tadjana Masurenko, Peter Sadlo and Jan Vogler. Alice appears frequently in recital at the Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival and Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. She made her debut at the Lucerne Festival in autumn 2010 and in summer 2012 she makes her first appearance at the Verbier Festival.
Alice has recorded exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon since 2008, with her highly successful debut recording of Liszt’s 12 Études d’exécution transcendante quickly followed by a second album of the complete waltzes of Frédéric Chopin. This second release entered both the German and US Classical iTunes charts at No.1. Alice’s debut concerto featuring Piano Concertos by Tchaikovsky and Liszt (with the Münchner Philharmoniker and Thomas Hengelbrock) was named Editor’s Choice in both International Piano and Classic FM Magazine. Alice was also awarded the prize for Young Artist of the Year at the Klassik Echo Awards for her Chopin recording in October 2010 and her recent recording of Beethoven Piano Sonatas was released in August last year. Future plans include a live recording of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition at the Mariinsky Theatre in July 2012.