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JIM BAUER began studying piano at an early age on the barren plains of Texas with Katherine Freiberger. He went on to study piano with Emilio del Rosario in Chicago, and as a student at Dartmouth College continued his piano studies with Gabriel Chodos, while beginning his music theory and composition studies. In a stroke of good fortune and a fit of clarity, he left Dartmouth and transferred in his third year to the fertile oasis of Haverford College, where he received a true liberal arts education, studied piano with Temple Painter, and was generously mentored by the late composers John Davison and Harold Boatrite, who between them had enough artistry and dignity to carry the world forward for generations to come. Mr. Bauer spends some of his many waking hours composing and producing music scores for film and television (PBS, Nova, VH 1, Behind the Music, A & E Biography, Discovery Channel, History Channel), many hours in the last several years developing The Blue Flower in collaboration with his wife Ruth - their first work for theatre - some number of hours onstage with The Weimarband as singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist, and the remaining hours underground writing songs, spreading his maps and dreaming of reducing his debts. He is currently writing a new narrative song cycle, Dagmar, about a man unable to get out of bed in the morning.
Bio as of September, 2008.
American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include:
American Theatre Wing Jonathan Larson Grant Recipient - 2004
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