American pianist Thomas Sauer performs regularly as soloist, chamber musician, and recital partner. Audiences and critics alike praise his playing for its clarity, expressivity, and assured stylistic sense. Some of Mr. Sauer’s recent solo appearances include concertos with the Quad-City and Tallahassee Symphonies, and recitals at Simon’s Rock and Mannes Colleges, Merkin Concert Hall, Rockefeller University, and St. John’s College, Oxford. With his long-time duo partner, English cellist Colin Carr, Mr. Sauer has appeared at the Wigmore Hall (London), the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Bargemusic (New York City), and the Gardner Museum (Boston). Other duo recitals include violinists Midori (Berlin Philharmonie and the Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels) and Jennifer Koh (Kennedy Center, Kimmel Center, Library of Congress, Princeton University).

Among Mr. Sauer’s chamber music credits are performances at the Chamber Music Societies of Boston, Lincoln Center and Philadelphia; performances with members of the Juilliard String Quartet at the Library of Congress; and numerous concerts with the Brentano String Quartet. Mr. Sauer has performed at many of the leading festivals in the United States and abroad, including Marlboro, Caramoor, Music@Menlo, Chamber Music Northwest, El Paso Pro Musica, and the Chamber Music Festivals of Seattle, Taos, Four Seasons (North Carolina), Portland, and Salt Bay (Maine); as well as Lake District Summer Music (England) and Festival des Consonances (France). He has premiered works by Robert Cuckson, Sebastian Currier, Donald Martino, Harold Meltzer, Ruth Schonthal, Nathan Shields, Suzanne Sorkin, and Richard Wilson, among many others.  

A committed teacher, with students at Mannes and Vassar Colleges, Mr. Sauer was the founder and director of the Mannes Beethoven Institute, a highly-regarded week-long summer training program that ran for fifteen seasons in New York, and is Co-Founder and Director of Chamber Music Quad Cities, a performing organization in his hometown of Davenport, Iowa.

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