Thomas E. Bauer is very much in international demand as a concert vocalist, having appeared with
the Boston Symphony (Bernard Haitink), Concentus Musicus (Nikolaus Harnoncourt), Filarmonica della Scala (Zubin Mehta), Leipzig Gewandhaus (Herbert Blomstedt, Riccardo Chailly, Sir John Eliot Gardiner), and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC (Iván Fischer). He appeared at the Salzburg Festival as well as at the Berlin Philharmonic, and sang for the inauguration of Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, conducted by Kent Nagano. Guest appearances have led him to the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, the Belgian National Orchestra, the Auckland Philharmonic, the Bamberg Symphony and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, among many others. He also enjoys considerable success in the Lied genre, with performances at Berlin Konzerthaus, at the Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich and at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Music Festival. On the opera stage, Thomas E. Bauer’s recent performance in Zimmermann’s “Die Soldaten” at Teatro alla Scala in Milan was warmly received. He has sung several world premières of operas, and was awarded the prestigious Schneider-Schott Music Prize.