Otis Prescott-Mason is a Wellington-born pianist and a classical performance student at Victoria University of Wellington's New Zealand School of Music. He began his piano studies with Erin Taylor at the age of five before studying with Emma Sayers from 2018 to 2020. Otis is currently studying under Dr. Jian Liu, his teacher since 2018. He has also had lessons with Edith Fischer, Boris Berman, Antti Siirala, Jan Jiracek von Arnim, Christian Pohl, and Rena Shereshevskaya.

Otis has been successful in competitions at the local and national level: In 2020 he was awarded 1st prize at the New Zealand Junior Piano Competition (formerly the Wallace National Junior Piano Competition), and in 2022 he was awarded 1st prize at the Lewis Eady National Piano Competition (formerly the Wallace National Piano Competition), New Zealand's national piano competition. Recently Otis was awarded 1st prize at the PACANZ National Piano Competition.

Through the generous sponsorship of Professor Jack C. Richards, Otis was fortunate to travel to Switzerland to attend the 2022 Semaine Internationale de Piano in Blonay. He was invited to return to the 2023 edition of the festival to play a solo recital.

Otis has also dedicated his time to teaching piano since 2017.