Masako Ohta

Masako Ohta is a Japanese pianist, composer and sound-performance artist born in Tokyo and based in Munich. She studied concert piano at Toho Gakuen School of Music and the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, developing a practice that links classical and contemporary repertoire with free improvisation.

Her work often brings Japanese and European musical traditions into dialogue with poetry, visual art and interdisciplinary performance. She received Munich's Förderpreis für Musik in 2019 and the Giesinger Kulturpreis in 2016. Creative Sources documents her piano on kaiyushiki (CS615) and music in space (CS650).