Daniel Ott Member of the Academy of Arts
The Swiss pianist and composer Daniel Ott, founder of the Neue Musik Rümlingen festival among other things, has been admitted to the German Academy of the Arts.
Ott has been Professor of Composition and Experimental Music Theater at the Berlin University of the Arts since 2005. In 2016, he took over the artistic direction of the Munich Biennale - International Festival for New Music Theater together with Manos Tsangaris.
The Academy of Arts has accepted a total of 13 new members. In the Music Section, these are Philippe Manoury and Helmut Zapf alongside Ott. The following were elected to the Literature Section: Jenny Erpenbeck, Günter Kunert, Reiner Kunze, Marie-Luise Scherer and Kathrin Schmidt. New members of the Performing Arts Section are Boris Charmatz, Mark Lammert, Eva Mattes, Thomas Quasthoff and Krzysztof Warlikowski. The Academy of Arts now has a total of 414 members in its six art sections.
