In the 2026–27 season he sings the title role in Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle on tour with Oxalys under Johannes Witt.

As a concert singer, Thomas E. Bauer has recently made guest appearances with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal in Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder, with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, at the Vienna Musikverein, with the Warsaw National Philharmonic in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw in Bach’s St Matthew Passion under the baton of Sigiswald Kuijken and again in 2026 with Jonathan Cohen, at the Seoul International Music Festival, the Brühl Haydn Festival with Capella Cracoviensis, and the Augsburg Mozart Festival and Rheingau Musik Festival in Bach’s Mass in B minor. Under the baton of Thomas Zehetmair he sang Haydn’s The Creation in Clermont-Ferrand. He sang the world premiere of Jörg Widmann’s oratorio ARCHE under the baton of Kent Nagano at the inauguration of the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie (on CD on ECM). Thomas E. Bauer sang Beethoven’s Missa solemnis under the baton of Philippe Herreweghe, Schubert’s Winterreise at the Concertgebouw Brugge and the St Matthew Passion in concerts in Paris and Dijon, among others, with Cappella Mediterranea under the direction of Leonardo García Alarcón.

He has also performed at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, at the Beethovenfest Bonn with Beethoven’s song cycle An die ferne Geliebte, with the MDR Symphony Orchestra under Simone Young and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Jörg Widmann’s orchestral song cycle Das heiße Herz, in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Kammerorchester Basel under Giovanni Antonini (on Sony Classical), with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra under Yu Long, Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Shao-Chia Lü in orchestral songs by Mahler, and with Kent Nagano and the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg in Bach cantatas. Recent highlights include the world premiere of Peter Ruzicka’s Benjamin Symphonie with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony under the direction of the composer.

Thomas E. Bauer was Artist-in-Residence at BOZAR Brussels and has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Bernard Haitink, Concentus Musicus under Nikolaus Harnoncourt, the Filarmonica della Scala under Zubin Mehta, the Gewandhaus Orchestra under Herbert Blomstedt and Riccardo Chailly, and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. At the Salzburg Festival he was heard under Ingo Metzmacher in Schubert’s Lazarus, and in Schoenberg’s Die Jakobsleiter at the Berlin Philharmonie. On the opera stage, he celebrated great success in Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten at the Teatro alla Scala. He has performed several opera premieres.

He has collaborated closely with the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, who wrote a number of works specifically for his voice. His many recordings have received prestigious awards, including those of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Beethoven’s Christus am Ölberge with Philippe Herreweghe conducting Collegium Vocale Gent and the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées. He was awarded the Schneider-Schott Music Prize.

Thomas E. Bauer, initiator of the award-winning Konzerthaus Blaibach, received his first musical education with the Regensburger Domspatzen and later studied singing at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich.