Mona Asuka Ott
German pianist
Mona Asuka Ott (Japanese: モナ＝飛鳥・オット; born 1991) is a German-Japanese pianist and the younger sister of Alice Sara Ott.
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. 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).
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.
In 2006, she was a finalist at the 11th Hamamatsu International Piano Academy Competition in Hamamatsu (Japan). She also received the audience prize at the Kissinger Piano Olympics at Bad Kissingen.
In September 2008, she appeared in the special concert of the "Piano furioso" foundation in the Small Hall of the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg.
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