Megumi Otsuka, Piano

Born in Tokyo, she started to compose already at the age of 6. She received the Tokyo-Award for Youth-composition when she was 9 and 12 years old and studied piano in Tokyo, Warszawa and Vienna.

Sie was awarded the "First Grand Prix" at the "Pianist Accompanist Internationale Concurso Rio de Janeiro" and the Special-Award for best piano-accompainment at the International Opera Competition "Belvedere" in Vienna..

Since 1992 she teaches in Vienna at the Music-University and at the Conservatory Prayner and appears frequently at the "Wiener Musikverein" as well as the "Wiener Konzerthaus".

Megumi Otsuka has collaborated with famous singers like Franco Corelli, Renata Scotto, Walter Berry, Hilde Zadek, Thomas Quasthoff and Renate Holm at the Vienna State Opera, Volksoper-Vienna und and at the Bregenz-Festival.