Alice Sara Ott

Alice Sara Ott is one of today’s most 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, Alice’s innovative recital concepts redefine classical music for the modern era. She has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon for over 16 years, leading to album streams of over half a billion.

In the 2025/26 season Alice is the Artist in Residence at Konzerthaus Berlin, following her acclaimed past residencies at London’s Southbank Centre, Paris’ Radio France and Utrecht’s TivoliVredenburg. Her residency includes opening the season with Bryce Dessner’s Piano Concerto conducted by Joana Mallwitz, as well as a major European tour later in the spring.

She will also continue her recital tour across China and Europe of her John Field and Beethoven project. Other highlights of the season include a European tour with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Jaap van Zweden, and the debut of her new chamber music project Papa Haydn, a tribute to the composer and his contemporaries that explores the ways music was shared amongst their friends. Alice will perform with orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Festival Strings Lucerne and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.

In December 2025, Alice Sara Ott will star alongside Isabelle Huppert in the world premiere of a conceptually staged program based on excerpts of the letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham with music by Bryce Dessner at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.

Alice’s next recording will be an album of solo piano works by Jóhann Jóhannsson in 2026 on Deutsche Grammophon. This follows her recent album of John Field’s complete Nocturnes (2025), which was a global success and reached No.1 on the Apple Music Classical chart for six weeks.

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