Flutes and organ Susanne Ehrhardt flutes(Berlin) + Sergej Tcherepanov organ(Lübeck)
In the summer concert series in the Protestant Church of Peter and Paul, cathedral organist emeritus Thomas Sauer from Berlin will play a sonata program on Friday, 29 August 2025 at 8 pm. Baroque and romantic organ music by Bach, Rheinberger and Mendelssohn will present ever-changing sound colors of the neo-baroque Sauer organ. The furious finale is the 1st organ sonata by Alexandre Guilmant.
Thomas Sauer
born in 1954 in Wittichenau and grew up in Storcha, received his first musical training at the Cistercian convent in Panschwitz-Kuckau and at the Bautzen music school. He studied at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Academy of Music in Leipzig (majoring in organ with St. Thomas organist Prof. Hannes Kästner). From 1978 to 2020 he was cathedral organist at St. Hedwig's Cathedral in Berlin. From 1990 he was a lecturer in organ playing and improvisation at the Archbishop's School of Church Music in Berlin until its closure in 2003.
His international awards include the Bach Prize in Leipzig in 1976 and a diploma from the "Tribune Internationale des Jeunes Interpretes" in Bratislava in 1983; in 1987 he won the improvisation competition in Halle.
Concert activities at St. Hedwig and concert tours in Europe and the USA, radio, record and CD productions have consolidated his international reputation as a concert organist and church musician. In addition to pure organ concerts, he can also be heard together with his wife Roswitha in the series "Words like Music", lyrical-musical thematic programs.
www.thomas-sauer-berlin.de
Copyright: Th. Sauer
