What we did

Our work before 2020

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2014 until today - World & European Brass Association Brass Mentor Program

The Philantropic Scholarship Year-Round Program & Projects Worldwide

The World & European Brass Association’s Brass Mentor Program is a philanthropic program that pairs gifted young brass players with internationally recognized masters. It gives highly talented students and pre-stundents, who are dependent on funding as a result of material and social disadvantage, the possibility to meet their mentors in masterclass- and one-to-one mentoring programs in person or online. 

http://www.world-brass-association.com/brass-mentor-program/

2010 until today - Sterntaler e.V. and expansion to Sterntaler Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany

Caroline Merz initiated 2 foundations: Sterntaler Düsseldorf e.V. is a non-profit association for the support of children and young people in need of help. In most cases, the help is directed to institutions, social institutions or support associations. In particularly urgent cases, those affected are supported directly. The projects are located in Düsseldorf and the surrounding area. The Sterntaler Foundation, like the association, is aimed at children and young people in need. The foundation's work also focuses on the medical field, child health and the promotion of educational projects for disadvantaged children and young people. Patron is Gisela Droste. The association promotes and supports facilities, research projects or institutions that are active in the field of research or therapy of rare children's and infants' diseases.

https://sterntaler-duesseldorf.de/

2002 until today - Annual Charity Concerts for the Children Holiday Home Metzingen, Germany

Since 2002, Otto Sauter has supported the Children Holiday Home Metzingen, a facility of the Protestant Church, with annual benefit concerts. During the summer vacations, 300-400 children experience every year diverse and varied vacations in a trusting community. 

1999 until today - Annual Charity Concerts for the Otto Sauter Hilfsfonds e.V., Singen, Germany 
Otto Sauter founded the charity organization 1999 in Singen on the shores of Lake Constance for people from the region who got into an emergency situation through no fault of their own and who needed help quickly and above all without unbureaucratic. The Südkurier, the Süd-West Rundfunk, District Administrator Frank Hämmerle, the Member of the State Parliament Veronika Netzhammer, the Catholic Church of the District of Constance as well as some private persons participated in the foundation. In the meantime, Otto Sauter has given many benefit concerts in Singen, each time in front of a sold-out audience. Every year he invites great artists like Montserrat Caballé, Lucia Aliberti or Bobby McFerrin, Michael Mendl, Mathieu Carrière and many more to concerts for the fund and on New Year's Eve he gives a trumpet-organ concert in the Herz-Jesukirche Singen. The Süd-West Rundfunk and the Südkurier have also supported the relief fund with some charity events.

http://www.ottosauter.com/specials-festivals/

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2019 Malteser Hilfsdienst e.V. & Orthodox Church supporting refugees on the Island of Lesbos and in Athens, Greece

Leopoldine Gräfin von Ingelheim-Theofanopoulos organizes with the help of the Malteser Hilfsdienst e.V. Germany support for a Greek Orthodox Church charity project, supporting refugees with food and clothes on the island of Lesbos and in Athens, Greece.

2016/ 2017 Charity Concert series for ZNS - Hannelore Kohl Foundation, Germany

In 2016 and 2017, Otto Sauter initiated a series of benefit concerts for the ZNS - Hannelore Kohl Foundation together with the Austrian soprano Eva Lind (ambassador of the foundation). The foundation was initiated in 1983 by Hannelore Kohl, the wife of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, for accident victims with injuries to the central nervous system and is the representative for around 270,000 people in Germany who suffer a craniocerebral injury every year. To date, the foundation has been able to pass on more than 29 million euros from donations to clinics, institutions and rehabilitation facilities in Germany for around 600 projects. 

2016 Charity Gala „Thank you Maestro Mehta“ for the Mehli Mehta Music Foundation India, Arlberg, Austria

The charity gala aimed to acclaim the decade-long dedication of Maestro Zubin Mehta for the advancement of young musicians. The festivities were planned in the  5 star Arlberg Hospiz Hotel and arlberg1800 Contemporary Art & Concert Hall on the initiative of Otto Sauter with the participation of the Mehta & Friends Chamber Orchestra with members of the Vienna Philharmonic and Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and internationally renowned artists. The eulogy was planned to be held by German entertainer legend Thomas Gottschalk who has been friends with Maestro Mehta since the mid-90s. The Mehli Mehta Music Foundation India supports young Indians to receive music education.

2012 Charity Gala Concert for the Förderverein Buchenwald e.V., Weimar, Germany

Otto Sauter and Dr. Volkhardt Germer, the former mayor of the city of Weimar and chairman of the board of the Förderverein Buchenwald, created the concert. The aim was to support the dedicated work and various projects of the Förderverein, in particular to expand the infrastructure for guided tours through the memorial with specialized staff, which is currently insufficient for the large number of visitors. Artists: Otto Sauter & Ten of the Best, Iris Berben (Actress), Michael Mendl (Actor), Josef Bulva (Piano), Avitall Gerstetter (Vocals), Edson Cordeiro (Vocals), Patron of the event is Christine Lieberknecht, Prime Minister of the Free State of Thuringia.

2008 Beijing Special Olympics supported by the Women's International Club, Beijing, China

Leopoldine Gräfin von Ingelheim-Theofanopoulos organizes Charity Gala Dinners in the name of the Women's International Club to support projects of the Special Olympics in Beijing, China.

2005 Charity Gala Concert for the German Football Association DFB Foundation Egidius-Braun, Aachen, Germany

Otto Sauter initiates the benefit gala concert for the 80th birthday of the former president of the German Football Association Dr. h.c. Egidius Braun under the motto "Football is always more than a 1:0". Otto Sauter and the Symphony Orchestra of the City of Aachen conducted by Marcus R. Bosch performed the program. Guests: former soccer manager Reiner Calmund, DFB President Theo Zwanziger, Werner Hackmann President of the German Soccer League. The proceeds went to the jubilarian's foundation, which uses them to support two Aachen aid projects: Half each goes to the "Förderkreis schwerkranke Kinder" and the "Verein zur Förderung von Erziehungs-, Bildungs- und Gesundheitsprojekten in Afrika e.V.", which builds and runs schools and kindergartens in Kenya.

2003 Charity Concert series for the 50th anniversary of Unicef Germany

Otto Sauter initiates and plays 15 benefit concerts for the 50th anniversary of Unicef Germany in Germany's most beautiful cathedrals and churches as well as for the Ann-Kathrin-Linsenhoff-UNICEF-Foundation at the SCHAFHOF-FESTIVAL with the Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt conducted by Hugh Wolff. Cooperation partner: Hessischer Rundfunk. 

1997 Peace Concert Series Yugoslav Wars, Bosnia

Otto Sauter performs a series of peace concerts in Sarajevo and Lukawatz, among other places, with the Bremen Cathedral Choir and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Sarjevo, Bosnia.

1996/ 1997/ 1998/ 1999 Charity Gala Dinners for President Nelson Mandela and his successor President Thabo Mbeki, South Africa

Leopoldine Gräfin von Ingelheim-Theofanopoulos organizes Charity Gala Dinners in the name of the Greek Ladies Charity Community in South Africa each year for President Nelson Mandela and his successor President Thabo Mbeki to support charity projects in Pretoria and Johannesburg, South Africa.

1994-2000 International Trumpet-Academy Bremen - Student Scholarship Program, Bremen, Germany

Otto Sauter founded the International Trumpet-Academy Bremen, Germany, a unique education model for highly talented trumpet students from all over the world. International renowned universities like the Royal Academy of Music London, GB and the Toho Gakuen school of Music, Toyko, Japan regularly sent students to the International Trumpet Academy Bremen. Here, Otto Sauter brought together specialists from the leading Orchestras and universities of the world and developed with them an education program corresponding to the needs of the new generation of musicians of the 21. Century. They built up a curriculum in university style, based on the positive experiences of the professors in their fields and the different educational systems of the leading universities. For students who were dependent on funding as a result of material and social disadvantage, Otto Sauter established a scholarship program to give them the chance to study at the academy.

http://www.world-brass-association.com/founder/

1990-2000 International Trumpet Days Bremen - Student Scholarship Program, Bremen, Germany

Otto Sauter founded the International Trumpet Days Bremen, Germany, the biggest brass festival in the world at this time. International students and amateurs could profit by a large offer of masterclasses, lectures and competitions for all brass instruments with internationally renowned professors and lecturers as well as classical- and jazz concerts of the highest level that were open to the whole public every night. Artist were e.g. Ray Charles - Maynard Ferguson - Clark Terry - Montserrat Caballé - Maurice André - Dizzy Gillespie - Philharmonic State Orchestra Bremen - Malmö Symphony Orchestra - Orchestra of the Toho Gakuen School of Music Tokyo - Orchestra of the Royal Academy London - Arturo Sandoval Septet from Cuba/USA - Maynard Ferguson Big Bop Nouveau Band USA and many more to perform in the Glocke, the Cathedral, the soccer stadium and many locations more all over Bremen. For students who were dependent on funding as a result of material and social disadvantage, Otto Sauter established a scholarship program for the festival participation.

http://www.world-brass-association.com/founder/

1988 to 1998 Charity Concerts for Burundi Aid, Singen, Germany

Otto Sauter gives annual benefit concerts. The proceeds are used to finance the establishment of savings and loan funds, which provide access to micro-credits for local farmers, according to the maxim "help for self-help".