Alice Sara Ott - Pianist
In rehearsal with concert pianist Alice Sara Ott as she prepares for live shows in Europe. She talks about interpreting music, her favourite piano and her new album Nightfall.
Barefoot, sitting cross-legged at the piano, sometimes even with her own blood streaked across the keys, German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott believes everything should come from your hands.
We meet Alice in her rehearsal room at Steinway Haus on a hot day in Munich as she prepares for new live performances in France, Germany and the UK. Alice shares her sense of humour, explores how she interprets music, talks about the colours she adds, what kind of piano she favours, and why she always travels with a rubik鈥檚 cube.
And as Alice says; you don鈥檛 have to be educated to listen to classical music; you get educated by listening to it. T-shirts, flip flops, popcorn, all are welcome at a concert with Alice Sara Ott.
The pieces come from her new album Nightfall with piano music from Satie, Debussy and Ravel. The album is a personal project for Alice, the recording last year coinciding with her 30th birthday and a sudden illness in her family. The album has taken on an even stronger personal significance for Alice, following her recent diagnosis with Multiple Sclerosis.
Producer: Sasha Edye-Lindner
(Photo: Alice Sara Ott. Credit: Esther Haase)
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