Iranian-Austrian pianist Mitra Kotte will perform thrice and hold one-day workshop in Tehran.
Kotte will appear on Thursday and Friday nights at Vahdat Hall with the Tehran Symphony Orchestra as solo pianist. The orchestral concerts will be conducted by Iranian-American composer, conductor, violinist and pianist Shahrdad Rouhani, IRNA reported on its Persian website.
Tehran Symphony Orchestra will perform “Vocalise” and Piano Concerto No. 2 by Russian pianist and composer Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (1873-1943). It is for the latter piece that Kotte will play the piano. The orchestra will also perform Symphony No. 9 by Czech composer Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904).
On July 11, Kotte will appear alone on stage of Roudaki Hall to perform pieces by legendary composers of world acclaim, including Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Franz Schubert (1797-1828) and Franz Liszt (1811-1886).
Her piano performance workshop is slated for July 12. Participants will receive certificates.
Kotte has won numerous prizes in different national and international competitions in the categories of piano solo and chamber music.
The Austria-based musician received the Benjamin Prize 2017 of the Wolfgang Boesch Foundation, which is awarded to the best student taking the 2nd Diploma at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
In September 2015, she won the 2nd prize at the 1st Zhuhai International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians in China. In 2014 she was winner of the “Haydn Prize” at Ettlingen International Competition for Young Pianists in Germany.
She is recipient of 2014 Margaretha Schenk Foundation Sponsorship Award for Young Artists awarded by Mozart Society in Vienna. She also received the 2014 Musica Juventutis prize from Wiener Konzerthaus.
Kotte is a prizewinner of the International Rosario Marciano Piano Competition in Vienna, the International Competition Münchner Klavierpodium and the International Jeno-Takács Piano Competition organized by the Institute Oberschutzen of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria.
