Selina Ott, Maria Radutu, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Dirk Kaftan
Biography Selina Ott, Maria Radutu, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Dirk Kaftan
Selina Ott
In 2021 Selina was awarded the Opus Klassik Award 2021 for her debut album “Trumpet Concertos” together with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna and conductor Robert
As first woman ever in the seventy-year history of the ARD International Music Competition Munich Selina Ott was awarded 1st Prize in the category trumpet in September 2018 at the age of only 20.
Subsequently, she has been invited to perform with leading orchestras such as the
WDR Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and the Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich, at international festivals like Bachfest Leipzig, Grafenegg, Rheingau Musik Festival, Sauerland Herbst, Festival Emergents Barcelona, Herbstgold Festival Eisenstadt, Musikfest Bremen and SWR Schwetzinger Festspiele, and at concert halls such as Wiener Konzerthaus, Musikverein Wien, Philharmonie Berlin, Philharmonie Luxembourg and the Konzerthaus Berlin.
She has already made her solo debut with such orchestras as Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre conducted by Valery Gergiev, Czech Philarmonie conducted by Semyon Bychkov, the WDR Sinfonieorchester, Hamburger Symphoniker, Haydn Philharmonie, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, Collegium Musicum Basel, Philharmonische Orchester Hagen, at the Kölner Philharmonie, Philharmonie Essen, Wiener Konzerthaus, Mozarteum Salzburg, Musikverein Wien, Rudolfinum Prag, Musical Theater Basel and the Philharmonie Luxemburg.
Selina Ott started her music studies at the age of five years on the piano. One year later, she began to study trumpet with her father Erich Ott. She continued her studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna with Martin Mühlfellner and at the University of Music in Karlsruhe with
Reinhold Friedrich.
In 2020 Selina graduated with distinction (Bachelor of Arts) in the class of Roman Rindberger at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna (MUK).
In addition, she attended masterclasses of Gabor Tarkövi, Jens Lindemann, Kristian Steenstrup,
Allen Vizzutti, Bo Nilsson, Hans Gansch, Guillaume Couloumy, and Klaus Schuhwerk.
In her young career Selina Ott has been awarded eight times the first prize of the Austrian prima la musica competition in the category trumpet solo on regional and national level, and she received the first prize of the 2017 Lions Music Prize.
Selina released her first album in October 2020 in collaboration with the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna and Roberto Paternostro with works by Arutiumian, Peskin and Desenclos by the Label Orfeo.
In November 2020 she did recordings for another album together with the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna and Dirk Kaftan.
In June 2021 her second album together with pianist En-Chia Lin was released by the Label Orfeo.
Maria Radutu
By combining piano music with different art forms in concept programs, Radutu creates a strong bond with the audience.
Her solo career has taken her through Europe, Asia and the U.S. to venues including the Carnegie Hall, the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein, the Vienna State Opera, the Prince Mahidol Hall in Bangkok, the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Auditorio National in Madrid and the National Concert Hall in Taipei. She performed as a soloist with orchestras including the Vienna Radio Symphony, the Vienna State Opera Orchestra, the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, the Las Vegas Philharmonic, the California Symphony, the Philharmonic Orchestra Cottbus and the Orquesta Clasica Santa Cecilia.
Her new program and album PHOENIX premiered in October 2020 at MuTh in Vienna, together with dedicated paintings by Felicia Gulda. The story of PHOENIX leads from the passion of a young soul, through burning in a thrilling dance, rising up out of the ashes to find sovereignty. PHOENIX reached a half million streams and three nominations for Opus Klassik.
Her previous album INSOMNIA for Universal Music with dedicated music videos was called a „first-class listening experience“ by the Austrian newspaper „Die Presse“. She recorded together with the RSO Vienna, Dirk Kaftan and Selina Ott the upcoming album including the First Piano Concerto by Shostakovich, which will be released in November 2021. Maria Radutu is curating her own concert series Glasweise Klassiker in the season 2021/2022 at MuTh, combining piano concertos in unusual instrumentations with selected wine tastings.
With Eno Peçi, solo dancer and choreographer of the Vienna State Opera, Radutu created PIANO & DANCE, a program to melt piano music with modern dance. After the premiere in October 2019, PIANO & DANCE was booked in Romania, Albania and Austria. Due to the COVID19 crisis, the dates will be reprogramed. For her programs, Radutu regularly works with composers like Mikael Karlsson, Margareta Ferek-Petric, Marco Annau and Christoph Cech. Over the last years, she developed her concert format PIANOBOX to share her musical stories with the audience, beyond the limits of style, language and background. Her very personal way of talking about music is characterized as emotional music communication.
Born in 1984 in Bucharest, Maria Radutu was quickly recognized as a prodigy and won the Gold Medal at the National Olympics while studying at the George Enescu Music High School. After graduating the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Radutu was artistic director of the PhilKlang ensemble and it’s chamber music festival SoundGarden, founding member of the New Piano Trio and director of the social project Building Bridges.
