Born in dortmund
Member since 1994-09-01
Awards:
First prize at the German national competition »Jugend musiziert« (1983)
Olaf Ott was trained at the Dortmund branch of the Hochschule für Musik of Westphalia-Lippe. In 1985 he joined the Duisburg Symphony Orchestra (and simultaneously the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein) as principal trombone, and between 1989 and 1994 he was principal trombone in the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (now the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester). In 1994 he took up the position of trombonist in the Berliner Philharmoniker, and since 1999 he has been an orchestra principal. Olaf Ott also belongs to the Berlin Philharmonic Brass Ensemble and has played for nearly two decades in the Triton Trombone Quartet, which has won several international prizes.
