Otto Sauter (Cologne, Germany) is one of the world‘s leading trumpet soloists. As specialist on the piccolo trumpet, he has appeared in all major concert halls. He played with the Philharmonia Orchestra London for Prince Charles at St. James‘s Palace, in St. Peter‘s Square for Pope John Paul II and in the Forbidden City Beijing.
1988-1998 he was principal trumpet in the Bremen State Philharmonic Orchestra. 1991 he founded the annual Bremen International Trumpet Days, the world‘s leading brass festival at this time with guests like Ray Charles, Maynard Ferguson, Maurice André etc.. 1994 he founded the International Trumpet Academy Bremen, for the most gifted young international trumpet players. Sauter is giving masterclasses at international Universities like the Royal Academy of Music London, the Toho Gakuen School of Music Tokyo, in Houston USA, Bremen Germany, Santiago de Chile, St. Petersburg Russia.
2014 he founded the World & European Brass (WBA & EBA) Association, an international cooperation of festivals, orchestras, universities and cultural institutions to support brass music in masterclasses, concerts and professional exchange worldwide (Honorary Music Advisor: Maestro Zubin Mehta). Today WBA maintains cultural partnerships in 55 countries worldwide.
For 50 years UNICEF-Germany, he initiated a concertseries an regularly invites artists like Montserrat Caballé or Bobby McFerrin, to give joint concerts for the „Otto Sauter Foundation“.
2007/8 he initiated the „Little Amadeus Live“ concerts series supported by Volkswagen, based on the worldwide succesful children’s TV series and played 80 concerts in 40 cities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
He is artistic director of the annual „Wartburg-Festival“, the international Choir- and Music Festival „Musica Sacra a Roma“ in Rome and at the Vatican, the „Playtime Live City Concert Tour“ supported by the Organising Committee FIFA World Cup 2006.
Otto Sauter works with artists like: Edita Gruberova, José Carreras, Gösta Winberg, Ivo Porgorelich, Elena Bashkirova, Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Poppen, Marcello Viotti, Mikis Theodorakis, Sting Guitarist Dominic Miller.