Bauer is a composer and pianist immersed in both the classical and jazz worlds, and
teaches courses having to do with music theory, composition, jazz and improvisation. His
compositions have received several national awards and have been premiered by such groups
as the Brentano String Quartet, eighth blackbird, Nash Ensemble of London, Synergy
Vocals, New Millennium Ensemble, Network for New Music, Tarab Cello Ensemble,
Philadelphia Chamber Symphony, and many others. Performances have taken place at the
Kennedy Center in Washington, St. Petersburg (Russia), Uppsala (Sweden), Berlin, Paris,
New York, Baltimore, and Chicago. He has been a fellow at Yaddo, the Ucross Foundation,
and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and also received a major fellowship from the New
Jersey State Council on the Arts. He has previously taught at Princeton University (both
music and American Studies), the Peabody Conservatory and Skidmore College.
Bauer has been teaching at Macalester since 2009.
EDUCATION: B.M., Johns Hopkins University/Peabody Conservatory of Music, 1997; M.M.,
Johns Hopkins University/Peabody Conservatory of Music, 1998; M.F.A., Princeton
University, 2002; Ph.D., Princeton University, 2005
Compositions and Performances
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