Pianist Thomas Sauer is highly sought after as soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. His varied concert career includes concerto performances with the Quad-City Symphony and Greenwich Village Orchestra; solo performances at Carnegie Hall, Rockefeller University, and St. John’s College, Oxford; two appearances on Broadway as the pianist in 33 Variations, a play about the composition of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations; performances at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society; duo recitals with Colin Carr at Wigmore Hall (London), Holywell Music Room (Oxford), the Konzertgebouw (Amsterdam), Bargemusic (New York City) and Princeton University; duo recitals with Midori at the Philharmonie in Berlin and the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels; performances with members of the Juilliard String Quartet at the Library of Congress, and numerous concerts with the Brentano String Quartet.
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).
His varied discography includes recordings of Beethoven and Haydn piano sonatas for MSR Classics; a disc of Hindemith sonatas with violist Misha Amory (Musical Heritage Society); music by Britten and Schnittke with cellist Wilhelmina Smith on Arabesque; music of Ross Lee Finney with violinist Miranda Cuckson on Centaur Records, and Mozart violin sonatas with Aaron Berofsky on Blue Griffin Recordings.
Sauer has premiered works by Philippe Bodin, Robert Cuckson, Sebastian Currier, Keith Fitch, David Loeb, Donald Martino, and David Tcimpidis.
A member of the music faculty of Vassar College and the piano faculty of the Mannes College, Thomas Sauer is the founder and director of the Mannes Beethoven Institute.