Mitra Kotte was born in Vienna, Austria in 1995. She has won numerous prizes at national and international competitions in the categories piano solo and chamber music: MozARTe Aachen in Germany (2018), Benjamin-Prize 2017 of the Wolfgang Boesch Foundation, Zhuhai International Mozart Competition for Young Musicians, China (2015), Musica Juventutis (2014), International Competition for Young Pianists Ettlingen, Germany (2014). She was honored several times for her interpretation of classical works, like the “Haydn prize” at the International Competition for Young Pianists (Ettlingen 2014) or the "Förderpreis für junge Künstler-Stiftung Margaretha Schenk 2014" awarded by the Mozart Society.
This season 2024/25 she will perform with the Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck, at the Carinthian Summer 2024, the Septembre Musical Montreux-Vevey, at the Wiener Konzerthaus and at the Wiener Musikverein. She was selected for “The New Austrian Sound of Music” program 2025/26. Last season she made her debut at the International Brucknerfest Linz and at the Tonhalle Zürich. In 2022/23 season, she was selected to be “Featured Artist” by Jeunesse- musik.erleben. Highlight of this achievement was a performance of R. Schumann Piano Concerto in a minor, op. 54 with the Wiener Jeunesse Orchestra at the Musikverein Vienna. In previous seasons she performed at the Wiener Konzerthaus (L. v. Beethoven Piano Concerto no. 3), at the Festival Ljubljana, the Liszt Festival Raiding, the Dialoge Salzburg and the OÖ Stiftskonzerte.
Mitra Kotte received her first piano lesson at the age of four. Soon she was accepted at "Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien" in the “Programme for gifted children and young talents”. At this university, she studied piano performance with Martin Hughes and Chamber Music with Stefan Mendl. In 2017/2018 she was a student of Daejin Kim at the Korea National University of Arts in Seoul. Currently, she studies with Till Fellner at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
Mitra Kotte has had the opportunity to get valuable impulses at numerous master classes with great musicians such as Lang Lang, Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Milana Chernyavska, Christopher Hinterhuber, Pavel Gililov, Oleg Maisenberg, Bernd Goetzke, Elisso Virsaladze, Jura Margulis, Robert Levin, Ya-Fei- Chuang, Paul Badura-Skoda, Jacques Rouvier, Matti Raekallio and Dominique Merlet.