Andreas Ottensamer

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	Albums
	Weber / Brahms / Mendelssohn: Blue Hour (with Yuja Wang )

Andreas Ottensamer (born April 4, 1989 in Vienna ) is an Austrian clarinetist of international repute who belongs to a family of three solo clarinetists. Since March 2011 he has been a solo clarinetist with the Berliner Philharmoniker . His father Ernst Ottensamer was principal clarinet with the Vienna Philharmonic until his death in 2017 , where his older brother Daniel also holds the same position.

Life

Ottensamer first studied from 1999 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , first cello with Wolfgang Herzer and from 2003 clarinet with Johann Hindler . He later interrupted his studies at Harvard University in the USA in October 2009 in order to take up a scholarship from the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic . He is a former member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra . From July 2010 to February 2011 he was principal clarinet with the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin .

The first prize winner of numerous competitions with the instruments clarinet, piano and violoncello performs as a soloist worldwide with orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra , the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen , the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle , Yannick Nézet-Séguin , Mariss Jansons etc. - as well as chamber musicians with Yuja Wang , Lisa Batiashvili , Leonidas Kavakos , Janine Jansen , Sol Gabetta , Emmanuel Pahud and many more. Andreas Ottensamer is an exclusive artist at Deutsche Grammophon and has released five albums. He was also involved in the production of Night of Hunters by artist Tori Amos . The clarinet trio The Clarinotts, founded in 2005 together with his father and brother Daniel, has dedicated several works. It recorded a CD at Gramola Vienna.

From the 2015/16 to 2017/18 season, Andreas Ottensamer was an artist in the “Junge Wilde” series at the Dortmund Konzerthaus .

2013: Portraits - The Clarinet Album , conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin , Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Deutsche Grammophon
2015: Brahms: The Hungarian Connection , Deutsche Grammophon
2016: The Clarinotts , Deutsche Grammophon
2017: New Era: Stamitz , Danzi , Mozart , conductor Emmanuel Pahud , Kammerakademie Potsdam , Decca
2019: Blue Hour - Weber, Brahms, Mendelssohn , with Yuja Wang , conductor Mariss Jansons , Berliner Philharmoniker, Deutsche Grammophon

↑ Andreas Ottensamer in the German charts
↑ Echo Klassik: Andreas Ottensamer is instrumentalist of the year . Article from August 24, 2015 on derStandard.at, accessed on August 24, 2015.
↑ "OPUS KLASSIK 2019" on ZDF with prominent laudators. In: presseportal.de. October 4, 2019, accessed October 5, 2019 .