Wolfang Amadeus Mozart: Duport Variations, K. 573 / Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 3, 0p. 2 / Frédéric Chopin: Waltzes nos. 1, 2 and 3, Op. 34 / Waltzes nos. 11 and 12, Op. 64 / Franz Liszt: Transcendental Studies nos. 11 and 12 / Rigoletto - Concert Paraphrase for piano

Alice Sara Ott is considered one of the greatest pianists of the younger generation. Of German-Japanese descent, she has embarked on an active concert career which has led her to play under conductors such as Thomas Hengelbrock, Adam Fischer and Daniel Harding. For her first concert in Torroella, she has chosen a virtuoso programme, as befits a performer who in October 2010 won the Young Artist of the Year Prize in the Echo Classic Awards for her CD of Chopin Waltzes, five of which she will be playing today.

While the works by Mozart and Beethoven are not the best known piano pieces by these composers, the same cannot be said of the Chopin Waltzes or Liszt’s two Transcendental Studies, pianistic tours de force which constitute one of the culminating points of Romantic piano repertoire. The Rigoletto Concert Paraphrase (1859) will round off a concert which commemorates the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great Hungarian pianist and composer, Franz Liszt.