Otto Sauter (Cologne, Germany) is one of the world‘s leading trumpet soloists. As specialist on the piccolo trumpet, he hasappeared 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 also was invited for guest professorships at international universities like the Bremen Academy of Arts, the Royal Academy London, the Toho Gakuen School for Music Tokyo, the Toho Gakuen Orchestra Academy Toyama, the Universidad Metropolitana de Santiago de Chile, the Universidade Federal do Amazonas and the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. 2014 he founded the World & European Brass 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 the association maintains cultural partnerships with more than 65 countries worldwide. For 50 years UNICEF-Germany, he initiated a concertseries and regularly invited artists like Montserrat Caballé or Bobby McFerrin, to give joint concerts for the „Otto Sauter Foundation“. With EMI Classics, Otto Sauter started his CD series of world premiere recordings „World of Baroque“, with concerts from his music collection containing about 600 rediscovered compositions of baroque and early classical masters like A. Scarlatti, G. Reutter or J. M. Molter, that were not peformed in the last 250 years. Besides the baroque repertory, Otto Sauter dedicated himself to the enlargement of contemporary original literature for piccolo trumpet. Julien Francois Zbinden, Harald Genzmer, Jan Koetsier, Jurai Filas, Enjott Schneider, Mikis Theodorakis were writing compositions for piccolo trumpet for him. 2007/8 he initiated the „Little Amadeus Live“ concerts series supported by Volkswagen, based on the worldwide succesful children’s TV series and played 70 concerts in 35 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 2006TM and the Neuschwanstein Castle Festival 2014. 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.