Selina Ott started her music studies on the piano at the age of five. One year later, she began to study trumpet with her father, Erich Ott. She continued at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and at the University of Music in Karlsruhe. In 2022 Selina graduated with distinction in the class of Roman Rindberger at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. She was awarded with the honorary prize of the Federal Ministry Republic of Austria for Education, Science and Research. As the first woman ever in the seventy-year history of the ARD International Music Competition, she won the 1st Prize in the category trumpet at the age of only 20 in 2018.
In October 2020 she released her first album Trumpet Concertos in collaboration with the ORF Viennan Radio Symphony Orchestra and won the Opus Klassik Award. In June 2021 came to light her CD together with pianist En-Chia Lin Paternostro and in 2022 a second album with the ORF Viennan Radio Symphony Orchestra. All of them by the label Orfeo.
As a soloist Selina Ott has played in the Wiener Konzerthaus, Musikverein Wien, Philharmonie Berlin, Kölner Philharmonie, Philharmonie Essen, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Wolkenturm Grafenegg, la Salle Philharmonique de Liège, Rudolfinum Prag, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre and Musical Theater Basel. Furthermore, she has been invited to international festivals like the Grafenegg Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival, Festival Emergents Barcelona, Musikfest Bremen and SWR Schwetzinger Festspielen.
In October 2021 she played the premiere of Thomas Wally’s trumpet concerto Utopia I: Seltsame Schleifen at the opening concert of Wien Modern with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Marin Alsop at the Wiener Konzerthaus.
She has been invited to perform with leading orchestras such as the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. She has already played with the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev, at the Sommernachtsgala Grafenegg with the Tonkünstler Orchestra, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Symphoniker Hamburg, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie and Collegium Musicum Basel as well.
She is currently a Schagerl Artist.
