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Alice Sara Ott (born August 1, 1988) is a German classical pianist and the elder sister of Mona Asuka Ott.
Ott was born in Munich, Germany, in 1988; her Japanese mother had studied piano in Tokyo, and her father was a German civil engineer. She says she realised as a child that “music was the language that goes much beyond any words” and that she wanted to communicate and express herself through music. She started piano lessons when she was four, and reached the final stage of the youth competition in Munich at the age of five, playing to a full house in the Hercules Hall.
She won the Jugend musiziert competition in Germany when she was seven years old.
In 2002 she was the youngest finalist at the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan where she won the Most Promising Artist award.
From the age of twelve, she studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling while continuing her school education in Munich. Ott has won awards at a number of piano competitions, including first prize at the 2004 Pianello Val Tidone Competition.
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Khatia Buniatishvili (Georgian: ხატია ბუნიათიშვილი; born June 21, 1987) is a French naturalized Georgian concert pianist.
Khatia Buniatishvili began studying piano under her mother at the age of three. She gave her first concert with the Chamber Orchestra in Tbilisi at the age of six. From the age of ten she gave concerts in Europe, Ukraine, Armenia, Israel and the USA. She graduated from the Tbilisi Central Music School, then entered the Tbilisi State Conservatory in 2004 (with Prof. Tengiz Amirejibi). From 2006 Khatia studied with Prof. Oleg Maisenberg at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts.
Buniatishvili and her (older) sister Gvantsa learned the piano together and performed duets at home. She speaks five languages fluently: Georgian, French, English, German and Russian.
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Yuja Wang (Chinese: 王羽佳; pinyin: Wáng Yǔjiā; born February 10, 1987) is a Chinese classical pianist. She was born in Beijing, began studying piano there at age six, and went on to study at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. By the age of 21 she was already an internationally recognized concert pianist, giving recitals around the world. She has a recording contract with Deutsche Grammophon. In an interview with the LA Times, she said “For me, playing music is about transporting to another way of life, another way of being.
Wang comes from a musical family. Her mother, Zhai Jieming, is a dancer and her father, Wang Jianguo, is a percussionist. Both live in Beijing.
Wang began studying piano at age 6. At age 7, she began three years’ study at Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music. At 11, Wang entered the Morningside Music Bridge International Music Festival (at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta) as the festival’s youngest student.
At age 15, Wang entered the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she studied for five years with Gary Graffman and graduated in 2008. Graffman said that Wang’s technique impressed him during her audition, but “it was the intelligence and good taste” of her interpretations that distinguished her.
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