Selina Ott was born 1998. From 2011
to 2016 she attended the highly gifted course at Professor Mag. Art. Martin
Mühlfellner at University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.
During the
schoolyear 2015/2016 she was also a junior student at the Musikhochschule
Karlsruhe at Professor Reinhold Friedrich. Since October 2016 she is studying
trumpet in the class of Roman Rindberger at the Music and Art University
of Vienna.
Masterclasses
with Gabor Tarkövi, Jens Lindemann, Kristian Steenstrup, Allen Vizzutti, Bo
Nilsson, Prof. Hans Gansch, Guillaume Couloumy and Prof. Klaus Schuhwerk
completed her studies.
During her
young career Selina already won numerous prices and awards. She won the first
price at prima la musica at the category solo trumpet national and federal
level for eight times.
Already at
the age of eleven, she was on stage as a soloist at the gala concert of the
European Brass Band Championships with the Austrian Youth Brass Band at the
Brucknerhaus Linz, where she convinced the attending audience from all over
Europe with her performance
She had
solo performances with the Brass Band Oberösterreich, the Upper Austrian Youth
Brass Band, the Brass Band Noricum, the Youth Symphony Orchestra Lower Austria,
the Franz Schmidt Chamber Orchestra, the chamber orchestra of the University of
Music Karlsruhe and the mdw chamber orchestra.
Substitute
with the Wiener Symphoniker and the Symphony Orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper.
After
winning the audition at Musica Juventutis in November 2014 Selina performed in
April 2015 during a solo recital in the Schubertsaal of the Vienna Konzerthaus.
In October
2015 she was invited by Reinhold Friedrich to participate at the Weingartner
Musiktage junger Künstler, where she played a concert together with the harpist
Alisa Sadikova.
In April
2017 Selina won the first price at the “LIONS Music price 2017” and qualified
for Austria at the European Lions Music Championship at the 63rd European
Forum (Meeting of the European Lions) in Montreux, where she made it to the
finals.
2018 Selina
won at the age of 20 as first woman the ARD-Music competition in trumpet.