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Born in Munich in 1988, Alice Sara Ott received her first piano lessons when she was four and won a first prize with distinction in the well recognized “Jugend Musiziert” contest at the early age of seven. This was followed by further top medal accomplishments – frequently accompanied by special awards – at the Steinway, Grotrian Steinweg, Bach Coethen and other music competitions as well as in the 4th Epta International Competition.

At the age of 13 she was already well into international music competitions, carrying away “The Most Promising Artist Award” in Hamamatsu, Japan and other major trophies. Two years later, Alice Sara Ott attracted a good deal of attention when she won the first prize in the “Silvio Bengalli” International Piano Competition as the youngest contestant by far, qualifying for the highest number of points ever given in the history of the competition. This again was accompanied by special awards.

Since then, the German-Japanese pianist and student of Karl-Heinz Kaemmerling at the Salzburg Mozarteum has appeared in numerous concert halls in Europe and Japan as for example the Bad Kissingen Summer Festival, the Classix Festival in Brunswick, the Mecklenburg/Vorpommern Festival, the side-events programme staged in connection with the Bayreuth Festival, the Leipzig Bach Festival and the Prize-winners’ Concert given at the Salzburg Festival. In 2005 a dazzling performance of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 given in Sapporo with the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra under the baton of guest conductor Anu Tali followed and directly resulted in return engagements from the orchestra. In April 2006 she was invited by Hiroko Nakamura to inaugurate the final round of the popular ten-year series “The 100 Pianists”. Back in Europe, she appeared in Switzerland in September 2006 when she was the soloist in Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major performed with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich conducted by David Zinman, a rendering which unleashed passionate enthusiasm from the audience.

In addition to her solo activities she also has performed at chamber music festivals like the Festival “Spannungen” in Heimbach from Lars Vogt or the Zurich Festival, among others together with Lars Vogt, Gustav Rivinius and Tadjana Masurenko.

In the year 2007 she played among others at Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz and inspired both audience and reviewer at “Klavierfestival Ruhr” jumping in for Elena Bashkirova. Two month later, at the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival, she jumped in again three times for sick colleagues. Here she received the special price of the festival and was winner of the public price. Big resonance in sold out halls she got in Tokyo with the Yumiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra at Opera City Hall und in Suntory Hall with the Kiev Philharmonic Orchestra. Stepping in for Murray Perihia at Stadtcasino Basel she got standing ovations from the whole audience. In Germany the chief editor of the leading music magazine Fono Forum selected Alice Sara Ott as best rising star of the year 2007. Concerts in 2008/2009 will follow e.g. at Munich Philharmonie, Salzburg Festspielhaus and Tokyo Bunkakeikan

As “fulminante introduction” Sueddeutsche Zeitung praised her first CD, realized in 2004 as a co-production with the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation and this release has met with wide acclaim throughout Europe and Japan. Since May 2008 Alice Sara Ott ist exclusive artist of Deutsche Grammophon. A first CD with Franz Liszt, 12 Études d’ exécution transcendante, will be released in autumn 2008 in Japan. A second CD with complete waltzes from Frederic Chopin is scheduled for release in Europe and Japan in 2009/2010

Alice Sara Ott has gained scholarships set up by the Degussa Foundation in Düsseldorf, the PE Promotion Society for Music Students in Mannheim, the Heimbach “Spannungen” Festival, the German Foundation “Musikleben”, the “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes”, the Orpheum Foundation in Zurich and the Liechtenstein “Centrum Bank” Foundation for the Advancement of Art and Science.

上周六,为了让生活有那么点色彩,去学校参加了一个playing pop piano的workshop,这是每学期Get your hand dirty with the Arts里面的一个小项目,其他还有很多文学艺术相关的东西,唱歌跳舞写剧本拍电影等等门类众多。午饭时碰到两位早已工作的人都已经参加了好几次这个活动,而且他们对我们学校的活动演出比我还了解。有一个西班牙语老师很早就预订了当天下午学校电影学院转播的The Metropolitan Opera的Carmen,但是他舍不得放弃下午一个So you think you can sing的workshop。于是,我就幸运的看了比才这出著名的歌剧。

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当天晚上跟shoppinglee提到这出剧,他很气愤的说:Carmen就是个贱女人!那男的最惨,可怜的男人。随后又将签名档换成:Carmen的故事说明,一个男人为了一个女人抛弃事业和理想,是注定会悲剧的。其实整出剧给我的感觉是,我不知道Carmen为啥会爱上Don Jose;我也不知道Don为啥爱上Carmen(如果只是因为外貌生理冲动,那我首先鄙视一下他)。接下去,我也不知道他俩怎么出现的感情危机,或者说Carmen怎么会开始讨厌Don的(仅仅是喜新厌旧这点么?)再接下去就比较疯狂了。Carmen爱上那个之前她不屑的斗牛士(真的爱上了?),但同时她又清楚自己的命运(会被Don杀死)。有个细节,Carmen对那个斗牛士说了一句:我不会再像这样爱上另外一个男人。喜新厌旧的卡门会说出这种话么?更有可能是她知道自己要死了。

我觉得Carmen是清楚自己的秉性的——姑且认为是喜新厌旧,但是她无法抗拒对纯粹爱情的追求和向往。但是,爱情对她来说就是不能长久的,或者说她一直都没有找到一个能让她产生持久爱情的人。从这点说,她也是悲剧的,她唱着“爱情是吉普赛人的孩子,无法无天”,她没法逃脱天生对爱情的渴望之心。

要说评论,我倒不会因为她不断的追求“爱情”而喜新厌旧这部分指责她。纯的“爱情”的产生消失是不受人控制的,是一堆乱七八糟的化学物质的综合作用。但是,既然她戴上了Don的戒指,那么该付的责就该付,该守的诺言就该遵守。人的责任感虽然说到实质也是一大堆化学物质的综合作用,但是就个人经验来说,责任感这东西还是较容易人为控制的。

至于一个男人为了一个女人抛弃事业和理想,是不是注定会悲剧,这是一个没法下结论的东西。只是我想起来burningmatch讲的她那个帅老板的故事:这个教授很牛,当年医学院为了把他挖过来,顺便就把他老婆(也就是我在的PIBBS的director)也一起挖过来的。这对夫妻是同一所大学的,相差一级,师兄妹。男的很牛,四年拿到PhD,女的花了六年。男的为了等女的,就在荷兰当地做了三年博后。等女的毕业后,双双到Boston博后五年。据说这帅老板在家打理一切家务。最后burningmatch问我知不知道这个女教授有一个耳朵是聋的。我大惊。这种相濡以沫相互扶持的爱情婚姻家庭生活是我所向往的。

虽然这个例子里面,男的没有为女的完全抛弃事业和理想,但是他作出了多大的牺牲,我们也不知道,同时我们也不知道这女的有没有做出牺牲。“牺牲”这个词用在这是否严重,也要看当事人是怎么想的。也许,在他们俩看来,一点都不觉得有啥牺牲的。这就是他们想要的生活。

As evening fell a maiden stood
As the edge of a wood
In her hands lay the reins of a stallion
And n’er I’d seen
A girl as fair
Heard a gentler voice anywhere
Whispered, alas
She belonged
Belonged to another
Another, forever
Yes, she belonged to
The twilight and mist.

铃兰

《铃兰》

密林小路旁,铃兰(啊)正怒放。
像一串串白玉铃铛,
风儿把(啊)它摇晃。
我想那落花时节,
森林里会叮叮当当。
叮当叮当,叮当叮当,
阵阵清香。

密林小路旁,铃兰(啊)正怒放。
是谁把(那)天边的繁星,
碰洒在地上。
我想那夜的森林,
草丛中会闪闪发光。
星光星光,星光星光,
令人神往。

叮当叮叮当当,
叮当叮叮当当。

 

Lang Lang CD

    在57街的卡内基音乐厅门口,人流攒动。很多人举着一张纸片,上面写着“Need a Ticket”,在寒风中徘徊。这些人衣着体面,想必家境殷实。真是千金在手,一票难求。此时,我下意识的摸了摸口袋里的票,生怕有什么闪失。这可是我上周一大清早赶到这里买到的学生票,$10,在center balcony的位置。今晚,郎朗,祖宾梅塔带领维也纳爱乐乐团将在此献艺,曲目有肖邦的第二钢琴协奏曲和约翰施特劳斯的波尔卡和圆舞曲。想想在国内的时候,这种水平的演出我是从来买不到票的。即使能买到,动辄炒到千元以上的价格也足以让我望而却步。而仅仅在我成为一个纽约客的第二个月,我就真真切切的站在了卡内基的门口,真真切切的看到了以前只有从电视和DVD上才能看到的维也纳爱乐。这种幸福和被关怀的感动是难以名状的。做一个学生,真好!记得出国前,有长者告诫过我,在国外求学的这几年,恐怕是你物质上最匮乏的几年,但是,同时又应该是你在精神上最富有的几年。是的,卡内基,林肯中心,大都会歌剧院,百老汇,以及各种各样的博物馆让我觉得在我面前是一跳永远走不完的路。而美国对学生的这种人文关怀,更让我觉得,在这条凝聚了世界上最一流的艺术与文化的路上,没有什么可以阻挡我走得更远。三杯咖啡价钱就听到世界最顶级艺术家的表演,我想,这真正反映了我们国家的差距。以前总有一些热爱装b的人说我们欣赏西方音乐的时候不会鼓掌,总好像这是啥天大的事情,好像不学会鼓掌就不能进音乐厅享受音乐一样。事实上,今天的演出中,如此众所周知的曲目,在乐章的中间,到处是热烈的掌声,这些掌声,怕是都一个不落的抽到了这些热爱装b人们的脸上。

    郎朗前段时间刚刚在DGG灌录了肖邦的两首协奏曲。今天,同样的乐队,同样的指挥,复制到了卡内基。只是,我听到的不再是扬声器中的电子声,而是琴弦中传来的,富有生命的声场。肖邦的第二钢协,郎朗的演奏比唱片中的更为清澈。我尤其喜欢二乐章,梦幻般的触键编制出一个完美的关于爱情的梦想。有乞求,有等待,有想念,有迷茫,有甜蜜,有缠绵。想想肖邦写这曲子的年龄,也正是在“为艺术,为爱情”的时候吧。随着末乐章最后一个音符的消隐,掌声从卡内基音乐的各个角落片片爆开,各种腔调的“Bravo”此起彼伏。最终汇成有节奏的鼓掌。舞台上,郎朗向观众鞠躬致意,走进后台。我显然还没有从之前的投入中走出来,只是麻木地随着疯狂的听众拍手。掌声持续着,整个音乐厅的观众都期待一个encore。郎朗终于出来谢幕,接过听众的鲜花,将最大的一束放到了指挥台上,向指挥梅塔致意。又将一枝玫瑰送给了后面的大提琴。只见郎朗重新坐回钢琴前,全场期待的encore终于要来了。随着英雄主义的和弦传来,是肖邦的英雄波兰舞曲“英雄”,我最喜欢的一首波兰舞曲之一。郎朗的演绎激情四溢,我听得如痴如醉,当最后一个和弦撞响,一声“bravo”从我的喉咙里喊将出去,憋了太久,喊声近乎哽咽。于是又一轮掌声与叫好如潮水般涌来。在我这个balcony的前面,很多人都已经起立,演奏家一次次的谢幕。我的视野慢慢的有些模糊,往后面靠了靠,让自己松弛下来,静静的感受这一切…

    在回家的地铁上,手上拿着票根仔细的端详,回忆着早些时候每一个时刻。突然看到地铁上的两句广告词,我修改了一下,得到了这两句话:I’m from China; I’m a New Yorker!带着这两句话,我会走的更远,我会飞的更高。