One of classical music’s most creative minds, in the 2023-24 season Alice Sara Ott appears as Artist in Residence at London’s Southbank Centre and Paris’s Radio France; gives the worldwide premieres of a new piano concerto composed for her by Bryce Dessner; embarks upon an extensive Asia tour with her project Echoes Of Life; and releases two major new albums on Deutsche Grammophon, for whom she is an exclusive recording artist.
2023-24 also sees Alice Sara Ott on tour with London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Antonio Pappano, and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Kazuki Yamada. She makes her debut with New York Philharmonic performing Ravel’s G Major concerto with Karina Canellakis conducting. Ott also premieres Bryce Dessner’s piano concerto with Tonhalle Zurich Orchestra with Kent Nagano, before going on to perform it with the likes of London’s Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic and Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin.
Two major album releases this season include Beethoven and Echoes Of Life Deluxe, a follow- up to Echoes Of Life, Ott’s widely successful tenth album on Deutsche Grammophon. The Beethoven project - with Karina Canellakis and Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra - was born as a collaboration with Apple Music, with the album released exclusively upon launch of the new Apple Music Classical app. Ott was the face of Apple Music’s global advertising, starring and performing in the multi-platform video campaign.
“She has the most delicate touch, the first movement cadenza pirouetting with the grace of a music-box ballerina… She transformed the finale into a playful Scherzo, playing cat and mouse with the orchestra.”
“German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott shades the most photosensitive pieces of French Impressionism — Debussy’s dreamy Suite bergamasque and Ravel’s ghoulish Gaspard de la nuit — with a seemingly limitless capacity to lend warmth, depth and color.”
“Her technique is dazzling, her tone wonderfully varied, from crystalline purity to powerfully raw, and the energy propelling her playing seems unstoppable.”