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, Mitra Kotte is performing in venues such as the Philharmonie Luxembourg and the Münchner Künstlerhaus. In season 2024/25 she performed with the Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck, at the Carinthian Summer 2024, the Septembre Musical Montreux-Vevey, the Palermo Classica, at the Wiener Konzerthaus and at the Wiener Musikverein. Since her debut at the Wiener Musikverein in 2015, Mitra Kotte has toured as a soloist and chamber musician, performing in numerous European, Asian, and American countries. Her concert appearances have included prestigious festivals such as the International Bruckner Festival Linz, the Ljubljana Festival, Dialoge Salzburg, Oberösterreichische Stiftskonzerte, Liszt Festival Raiding as well as concert halls like the Tonhalle Zurich, Wiener Konzerthaus, Wiener Musikverein, and the Dublin National Concert Hall.

For the 2025/26 season, Kotte was selected as a soloist for the Austrian Foreign Ministry's "The New Austrian Sound of Music" program. She was also named "Featured Artist" by Jeunesse-musik.erleben in the 2022/23 season.

In 2025, Kotte released her debut album Herstory, featuring works by female composers of the 19th and 20th centuries, on the Genuin Classics label.

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.