OHTA,MASAKO - My Japanese Heart (Sealed) (CD)

Musical journey through time and invites us to experience extraordinary compositions from four centuries from the land of the rising sun. Masako Ohta is a poet of the piano." Munchner Feuilleton Born in Tokyo, Japan, Masako Ohta, first prize winner of the Giesinger Kulturpreis 2016 and the winner of the Fo?rderpreis fu?r Musik der Landeshauptstadt Mu?nchen 2019 is a keen exponent of classical and contemporary music, and also of improvisation and composing film scores. She graduated in the Toho Gakuen School of Music, Tokyo and the Hochschule der Ku?nste, Berlin as a concert pianist and has taken masterclasses with Sir Andra?s Schiff, Gyo?rgy Sebo?k and Gyo?rgy Kurta?g. Working with poetry, sounds and music from Japan, Europe and from other cultures constitutes a major field of her interest and Masako Ohta creates intercultural and interdisciplinary projects and concert series. Masako Ohta’s work has been documented in numerous radio productions and on the CDs "Ohenrosan" and "Botenstoffe" that recorded live-improvisations. February 2018 has seen the release of her piano solo CD "Poetry Album" for the label Winter & Winter (Winter & Winter N° 910 244-2). This recording, compiling piano pieces spanning a wide range of periods, has met with great critical acclaim and has received fine reviews in the press including Su?ddeutsche Zeitung, Mu?nchner Feuilleton and Piano News. As a dedicated and certified piano pedagogue she gives lessons and masterclasses for piano and chamber music. She combines her teaching with Japanese calligraphy under the motto "holistic playing on the piano".