Otto Sauter
Otto Sauter (b.19610is a German trumpet soloist, who specializes on the piccolo trumpet

Piccolo trumpet

The smallest of the trumpet family is the piccolo trumpet, pitched one octave higher than the standard B trumpet. Most piccolo trumpets are built to play in either B or A, using a separate leadpipe for each key. The tubing in the B piccolo trumpet is one-half the length of that in a standard B...

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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, 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, 2000 at the Vatican

Holy See

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 in St. Peter‘s Square for Pope John Paul II. and 2001 with the China National Symphony Orchestra

China National Symphony Orchestra

The China National Symphony Orchestra is China's national orchestra....

 conducted by Muhai Tang in the Forbidden City

Forbidden City

The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. It is located in the middle of Beijing, China, and now houses the Palace Museum...

 in Beijing.

He recorded with EMI Classics

EMI Classics

EMI Classics is a record label of EMI, formed in 1990 in order to reduce the need to create country-specific packaging and catalogs for internationally distributed classical music releases....

, 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 Francois Zbinden, Harald Genzmer

Harald Genzmer

Harald Genzmer was a German composer of contemporary classical music.-Biography:Born in Blumenthal, near Bremen, Germany, he studied composition with Paul Hindemith at the Berlin Hochschule für Music beginning in 1928.From 1938 he taught at the Volksmusikschule Berlin-Neukölln...

 and Jan Koetsier

Jan Koetsier

Jan Koetsier was a Dutch composer and conductor.In 1950, Koetsier became the first Kapellmeister of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. As a composer, he wrote chamber music, and orchestral and choral works, as well as the opera Frans Hals...

. In 2004 he premiered three pieces of the Czech composer Juraj Filas

Juraj Filas

Juraj Filas is a Slovak composer.Juraj Filas is considered one of the most important contemporary composers...

, whose teacher was a student of Dvorák

Dvorák

- Dvořák or Dvorak :* Ann Dvorak , American film actress* Antonín Dvořák , Czech composer of Romantic music* August Dvorak , American psychologist, co-creator of the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard...

, two of them at the Beethoven Fest Bonn. In 2008 he premiered the trumpet concerto for piccolo trumpet and symphony orchestra, the Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis

Mikis Theodorakis

Mikis Theodorakis is one of the most renowned Greek songwriters and composers. Internationally, he is probably best known for his songs and for his scores for the films Zorba the Greek , Z , and Serpico .Politically, he identified with the left until the late 1980s; in 1989, he ran as an...

 wrote for him in the Berlin and Cologne Philharmony arrangement Robert Gulya.

In 2004 he founded the Wartburg-Festival on the Wartburg

Wartburg

The Wartburg is a castle overlooking the town of Eisenach, Germany.Wartburg may also refer to:* Wartburgkreis, a district in Germany named after the Wartburg* Wartburg , former East German brand of automobiles, manufactured in Eisenach...

, 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 2007/8 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

José Carreras

Josep Maria Carreras i Coll , better known as José Carreras , is a Spanish Catalan tenor particularly known for his performances in the operas of Verdi and Puccini...

, Gösta Winberg, Ivo Porgorelich, Elena Bashkirova

Elena Bashkirova

Elena Dmitrievna Bashkirova is a Russian-born pianist and musical director.She was born in Moscow, the daughter of pianist and teacher Dimitri Bashkirov...

, Jochen Kowalski, Mario Adorf

Mario Adorf

Mario Adorf is a German film and stage actor, best known for his lead role in the 1978 film The Tin Drum.-Biography:...

, Michael Mendl, Zubin Mehta

Zubin Mehta

Zubin Mehta is an Indian conductor of western classical music. He is the Music Director for Life of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.-Biography:...

, Daniel Barenboim

Daniel Barenboim

Daniel Barenboim, KBE is an Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conductor. He has served as music director of several major symphonic and operatic orchestras and made numerous recordings....

, 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

Montserrat Caballé

Montserrat Caballé is a Spanish operatic soprano. Although she sang a wide variety of roles, she is best known as an exponent of the bel canto repertoire, notably the works of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi....

 or Bobby McFerrin

Bobby McFerrin

Robert "Bobby" McFerrin, Jr. is an American vocalist and conductor. He is best known for his 1988 hit song "Don't Worry, Be Happy". He is a ten-time Grammy Award winner.-Life:...

, to give a joint concert for the „Otto Sauter Foundation“ on the shores of Lake Constance.

Discography

According to the German National Library:

• Rendez-Vous Royal I - Trompete & Orgel, Otto Sauter (Solo Piccolotrompete), Christian Schmitt (Orgel)
• Rendez-Vous Royal II - Trompete & Orgel, World Premiere Recordings *, Otto Sauter (Solo Piccolotrompete), Christian Schmitt (Orgel), Franz Wagnermeyer (zweite Trompete)
• DVD zur Telemann CD Box, aus dem Schloss Schwetzingen, Otto Sauter (Solo Piccolotrompete), Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester, Nicol Matt (Dirigent)
• Die Trompete in Salzburg (CD 1/2), Otto Sauter (Solo Piccolotrompete), Franz Wagnermeyer (zweite Trompete), Capella Istropolitana, Nicol Matt (Brilliant Classics)
• Die Trompete in Wien (CD 1/2), Otto Sauter (Solo Piccolotrompete), Franz Wagnermeyer (zweite Trompete), Capella Istropolitana, Nicol Matt (Brilliant Classics)
• Johann Melchior Molter Trumpet Concertos Complete (ca. 1695 - 1765)(2 CD BOX), Otto Sauter (Solo Piccolotrompete), CAPPELLA Istropolitana, Nicol Matt (Dirigent), Franz Wagnermeyer (zweite Trompete) (Brilliant Classics)
• The complete works for trumpet and orchestra of Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) (4 CD BOX), Otto Sauter (Solo Piccolotrompete), CAPPELLA Istropolitana, Nicol Matt (Dirigent), Franz Wagnermeyer (zweite Trompete) (Brilliant Classics)
• World of Baroque V, Otto Sauter (Solo Piccolotrompete), Maki Mori (Sopran), Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Halle, Dirigent Marcus Bosch (EMI Classics)
• World of Baroque IV, Otto Sauter (Solo Piccolotrompete), David Timm (Orgel) (EMI Classics)
• World of Baroque III, Otto Sauter (Solo Piccolotrompete), David Timm (Orgel) (EMI Classics)
• World of Baroque II, Otto Sauter (Solo Piccolotrompete), Cappella Istropolitana, Volker Schmidt-Gertenbach (Dirigent) (EMI Classics)
• World of Baroque I, Otto Sauter (Solo Piccolotrompete), Cappella Istropolitana, Volker Schmidt-Gertenbach (Dirigent) (EMI Classics)
• Contrasts for trumpets, Anthony Plog, Otto Sauter, Bo Nilsson, Urban Agnas, Claes Stroemblad, Howard Snell (Leitung)
• Ten of the Best & Friends, Sting Gitarrist Dominic Miller, Level 42 Leyboarder Mike Lindup, Sting Percussionist Rhani Krija
• Playtime Live - Pop Classics, Otto Sauter & Ten of the Best & Nürnberger Symphoniker, István Dénés (Dirigent)
• Ten of the Best - Live in Concert, Otto Sauter & Ten of the Best
• Christmas Melodies, Otto Sauter & Ten of the Best (EMI Classics)

External links

• http://www.otto-sauter.com
• http://www.ten-of-the-best.com

http://www.wartburgfestival.de
http://www.little-amadeus-live.com
http://www.kammerorchester.com/de/artists/view?id=4158