Masako Ohta
The Japanese pianist Masako Ohta, coming from Tokyo, is active in the fields of classical and new music, improvisation, film scoring, and theatre music compositions. Masako Ohta was awarded the Förderpreis für Musik der Landeshauptstadt München 2018/2019. She is intensively involved with poetry, sound and music from Japan, Europe and other cultures and creates intercultural and interdisciplinary projects and concert series. She completed her piano studies at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo and at the Hochschule (University) der Künste Berlin with Erich Andreas and György Sebök. She also attended master classes with András Schiff and György Kurtág.
Matthias Lindermayr
Matthias Lindermayr, coming from a family of musicians (his father is a pianist and his mother teaches early music education), received classical piano lessons as a child; he learned to play the trumpet when he was twelve. He also played electric guitar in rock bands as a teenager. He studied jazz trumpet with Claus Reichstaller at the University of Music and Theatre in Munich, then began composition studies with Gregor Hübner. Tiger Okoshi proved to be an important mentor, with whom he studied at Berklee College of Music in 2014/2015. He continued his studies in 2016 at the Jazz Institute Berlin with John Hollenbeck and Gerard Presencer.