Tribute to the czech authors with world's leading trumpet soloist Otto Sauter
Otto Sauter is well-known as one of the world‘s leading trumpet soloists. As a specialist on the piccolo trumpet, the German musician has already appeared in all major concert halls.
From 1988 until 1998 Sauter was principal trumpet in the Bremen State Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1991 he founded the annual Bremen International Trumpet Festival, and, in 1994, the Bremen Trumpet Academy.
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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, J. G. Reutter or J. M. Molter. 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, 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 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 also artistic director of the ensemble „Ten of the Best“ and worked with orchestras and artistst like Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, 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 Winbergh, Ivo Pogorelich, 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.
