{"id":5867,"date":"2025-05-14T18:30:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/andreas-ottensamer-clarinet\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T18:30:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:30:58","slug":"andreas-ottensamer-clarinet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/en\/andreas-ottensamer-clarinet\/","title":{"rendered":"Andreas Ottensamer, clarinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\"><p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1538679572306{margin-top: 60px !important;margin-bottom: 60px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4304 size-full alignleft\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" src=\"https:\/\/opmc.mc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/andreas-ottensamer-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Born in 1989, Andreas Ottensamer comes from an Austro-Hungarian family of musicians and was drawn to music early, receiving his first piano lessons when he was four. At the age of ten he began studying the cello at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, then changed to the clarinet under Johann\u202fHindlerin in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Andreas Ottensamer gained his first orchestral experience as a deputy in the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera and the Vienna Philharmonic and as a member of the Gustav Mahler\u202fJugendorchester. In 2009 he interrupted his Harvard studies to become a scholar of the Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic. \u202fHe is now the principal clarinettist\u202fof the Berlin Philharmonic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ottensamer has won first prize in competitions for clarinet, cello and piano, and performs as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the world with orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, the Rotterdam Philharmonic and the Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under Sir Simon Rattle, Yannick Nez\u00e9t-S\u00e9guin, Andris Nelsons, Pablo Heras-Casado and Alan Gilbert.\u202fHis artistic partnerships as chamber musician include work\u202fwith Murray\u202fPerahia, Leif Ove\u202fAndsnes, Leonidas\u202fKavakos, Janine Jansen, Sol Gabetta and Yo-Yo Ma, and together with pianist Jos\u00e9 Gallardo he is artistic director of the B\u00fcrgenstock Festival in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In February 2013 Andreas Ottensamer entered an exclusive recording partnership with Deutsche Grammophon, making him the first ever solo clarinettist to sign an exclusive agreement with the Yellow Label. His\u202fsecond album\u202f&#8221;Brahms &#8211; The Hungarian Connection&#8221; won the Echo Klassik Award for Instrumentalist of the Year 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In February 2017 his new album &#8220;New Era&#8221; was released by Decca Classics and features music by Johann and Carl Stamitz, Danzi and Mozart.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In April and May he performed Carl Maria von Weber&#8217;s Clarinet Concerto No.1 under Mariss Jansons in Berin and for Europakonzert in Cyprus, which will also be released on DVD.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2005 Andreas Ottensamer founded the clarinet trio The\u202fClarinotts\u202fwith his father Ernst and brother Daniel, both principal clarinettists of the Vienna Philharmonic. A CD of the trio was released in 2016 by Deutsche Grammophon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2017\/2018 Andreas Ottensamer holds the titles of \u201cJunge Wilde\u201d with the Konzerthaus Dortmund, \u201cMenuhin Heritage Artist\u201d with the Gstaad Festival, as well as \u201cArtist in Residence\u201d with the Kammerakademie Potsdam as well as the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1538679572306{margin-top: 60px !important;margin-bottom: 60px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text] Born in 1989, Andreas Ottensamer comes from an Austro-Hungarian family of musicians and was drawn to music early, receiving his first piano lessons when he was four. 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