Violinist Leah Ottman, who played with many Twin Cities musicians, dies at 33
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As a 5-year-old, Leah Ottman heard an instrument she liked while listening to her parents classical music and told her mother she wanted to learn to play that one.
She began taking violin lessons using the Suzuki method, launching a passion for music that would continue until her unexpected death Dec. 2 at the age of 33. Family members said she had not been ill and her death was being investigated. Leah touched an enormous part of the Twin Cities music community, singer-songwriter Dessa said. She collaborated widely and across the musical spectrum.