Violinist and composer, he was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1940, where he studied violin with Iolanda Peixoto and Oscar Borgeth. He participated in several chamber ensembles, and was member of the Orquestra Sinfônica do Ministério da Cultura. In 1971 he founded the group Ars Contemporanea which, for seven years, greatly contributed to the dissemination of Brazilian music. As a composer, Mr. Bauer studied with Cláudio Santoro (composition and counterpoint), Esther Scliar (musical analysis) and Guerra Peixe (from 1974 onwards, harmony, counterpoint, fugue, composition and orchestration). He delivered lectures on Brazilian music at the universities of Florida, Miami, and Houston, and was the musical director of two important projects aimed at promoting Brazilian music: the recording of works by more than 50 Brazilian composers on the label Rio Arte Digital, in Rio de Janeiro, and the Série Estréias Brasileiras sponsored by the Centro Cultural do Banco Central, during which, in 1997, 33 works by Brazilian composers were commissioned and performed. Mr. Bauer teaches composition and orchestration at the Universidade Estácio de Sá (Rio de Janeiro) and organized, in 1998, the Centro de Edição de Partituras at the Escola de Música Villa-Lobos in Rio de Janeiro. In the early phase of his compositional career, he adopted the atonal idiom and other styles current at the time, but later he opted for a free style influenced by popular traditions (such as in the String Quartet No. 2). He won eight composition prizes, including the Prêmio Esso for concert music, an award in the Latin American Competition sponsored by the Universidade Federal da Bahia, and the Prêmio Cultura Artística, in São Paulo.

Selected Works

• Duo for flutes (1991)
• String Quartet no. 1, "Petrópolis" (1983) [Real Player] [Quicktime]
• String Quartet no. 2 (1997) [Real Player] [Quicktime]
• Trio no. 1, for violin, cello, and piano (1981)