Alice Sara Ott

“Ott was a superb soloist, dazzling in the music’s more extreme virtuoso writing, exquisitely delicate in its moments of tender quietness.”

– The Guardian

Alice Sara Ott is one of today’s formidable and forward-thinking classical musicians, with her visionary artistic projects, globally successful albums, and collaborations with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors. Captivating audiences worldwide with her unique interpretations and technical brilliance, she has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon for over 15 years, leading to album streams of over 500 million. Meanwhile Ott’s pioneering recital tours redefine classical music for the modern era, making her one of the most influential artists of her generation.

The 2024-25 season will see Alice Sara Ott perform with London Symphony Orchestra and Gianandrea Noseda, Bayerischer Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester and Karina Canellakis and give the French, German, Belgian and Dutch premieres of Bryce Dessner’s Piano Concerto (written for her and premiered in Zurich Tonhalle with Kent Nagano and then London’s Philharmonia Orchestra with Elim Chan in 2024). Last season Ott made her highly anticipated and successful debut with the New York Philharmonic, and she returns to the USA to perform with the Baltimore Symphony and Minnesota Orchestras as well as the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conducted by Manfred Honeck.

Alice Sara Ott is Artist in Residence at the TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht in the 2024/25 season, bringing her versatile artistic projects to the Netherlands. This follows successful residencies in Londons Southbank Centre and Radio France in Paris during 2023/24.

This season, Alice Sara Ott releases two new albums on Deutsche Grammophon. The first will be the complete nocturnes of John Field. This album will offer a fresh perspective on these timeless pieces which are rarely heard. After the album’s release in February 2025 Ott will embark on a major concert tour in Europe; visiting seventeen cities before taking the programme to Japan. At the end of the season Ott returns to Japan with the John Field program as well as performing with the Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra under the baton of Karina Canellakis. The second album being released in 2025, was recorded in Iceland and features the evocative piano works of Jóhann Jóhannsson.

A talented illustrator and designer, Alice Sara Ott created a signature line of bags for JOST, one of Germany’s premium fashion brands. As well as her collaboration with Apple Music, she has also been global brand ambassador for Technics, collaborated with French luxury jewellery house, Chaumet, part of the LVMH group, and with German luxury jewellery brand Wempe.

（October 2024）