Thomas E. Bauer

As a concert vocalist, Bauer made recent guest appearances at Beethovenfest Bonn, singing Beethoven’s song cycle An die ferne Geliebte, with the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra, at the Musik Podium Festival in Stuttgart in Mendelssohn’s Paulus, with Chorwerk Ruhr, Ensemble Pygmalion, and Anima Eterna. The Palais des Beaux-Arts BOZAR in Brussels featured Bauer as Artist-in-Residence for a series of concerts. He has appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Bernard Haitink, Concentus Musicus under Nikolaus Harnoncourt, the Filarmonica della Scala under Zubin Mehta, the National Symphony in Washington, DC, and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra.

Bauer has collaborated with Sir Roger Norrington, Iván Fischer, and Sir John Eliot Gardiner, among other eminent conductors. Recently, under the baton of Ingo Metzmacher, he appeared in Schubert’s Lazarus at the Salzburg Festival as well as in Schoenberg’s Jakobsleiter at the Berlin Philharmonie, and sang the world premiere of Jörg Widmann’s oratorio Arche conducted by Kent Nagano for the inauguration of Hamburg’s spectacular new Elbphilharmonie.

On the operatic stage, Bauer’s recent performance in Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten (Alvis Hermanis/Ingo Metzmacher) at La Scala in Milan was warmly received. He has sung several world premieres of operas, and was awarded the prestigious Schneider-Schott Music Prize. His latest award-winning CD releases include Jörg Widmann’s Arche (Nagano/Hamburg Philharmonic, on ECM, 2018) and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (Otto/Mainz Bach Orchestra, on Naxos, 2018).

Bauer received his earliest musical training as a member of the legendary Regensburg Domspatzen (Cathedral Choir) and went to study voice at the University of Music and Theatre in Munich.