Otto Sauter

Otto Sauter (2011)

Otto Sauter (born 1961) is a German trumpet soloist, who specializes on the piccolo trumpet .[1]

Biography

From 1988 until 1998 Sauter was principal trumpet in the Bremen State Philharmonic Orchestra. in 1991 he founded the annual Bremen International Trumpet Festival,[2][3] and, in 1994, the Bremen Trumpet Academy.

In 1995 he played with the Philharmonia Orchestra (London) in the presence of HRH Prince Charles at St. James‘s Palace, in 2000 at the Vatican in St. Peter‘s Square for Pope John Paul II. and in 2001 with the China National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Muhai Tang in the Forbidden City in Beijing.

He recorded with EMI Classics, a CD series of world premiere recordings „World of Baroque“, with rediscovered compositions of baroque and early classical masters like A. Scarlatti, G. Reutter or J. M. Molter, that were not performed in the last 250 years.

Besides the baroque repertory, he has enlarged the repertory of contemporary original literature for piccolo trumpet with works by Julien-François Zbinden, Harald Genzmer and Jan Koetsier. In 2004 he premiered three pieces of the Czech composer Juraj Filas, whose teacher was a student of Dvořák, two of them at the Beethoven Fest (Bonn). In 2008 he premiered a trumpet concerto for piccolo trumpet and symphony orchestra which was written for him by the Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis and arranged by Róbert Gulya in the Berlin and Cologne Philharmony.

In 2004 he founded the Wartburg Festival on the Wartburg, and in 2005 the international choir and music festival „Musica Sacra a Roma“ in Rome and at the Vatican.

In 2006, for the 250th birthday of W. A. Mozart, he initiated the "Little Amadeus & Friends Aktionstag" for German grammar schools together with Peter Will the television producer of the international children’s TV series (awarded with the „Echo Klassik“ in Germany). In 2007-2008 he initiated and played 80 "Little Amadeus Live" concerts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Otto Sauter is artistic director of the ensemble „Ten of the Best“ and worked with orchestras and artistst like e.g.: RSO Prag, RSO MDR and HR, Tscheque Philharmony, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Bachcollegium Leipzig, Sinfonia Varsovia, Münchner Kammerorchester, Cappella Istropolitana, Edita Gruberova, José Carreras, Gösta Winberg, Ivo Porgorelich, Elena Bashkirova, Jochen Kowalski, Mario Adorf, Michael Mendl, Zubin Mehta, Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Poppen, Marcello Viotti.

For 50 years UNICEF-Germany he gave a series of concerts in Germany. Each year he invites international artists like Montserrat Caballé or Bobby McFerrin, to give a joint concert for the „Otto Sauter Foundation“ on the shores of Lake Constance.

Discography

According to the German National Library:[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Otto Sauter". Berliner Kulturdatenbank (in German).
  2. ↑ "La Jove Orquestra y Otto Sauter estrenan una obra de Valero". Panorama Actual (in Spanish). August 16, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Otto Sauter". Vienna Chamber Orchestra.
  4. ↑ "Catalog search results for Otto Sauter". German National Library.

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