"Arguably, the finest cellist of his generation"
sunday Times, May 2007

"The world now has a new, great cellist.”

In only a few years, Daniel Müller-Schott has succeeded in establishing himself on the world’s important concert stages. With his technical brilliance and authority, coupled with great intellectual and emotional esprit, he fascinates his audiences. In recent years, Daniel Müller-Schott has found international acclaim for his high degree of musicality and the wealth of nuances in his playing, his constant search for a musical vision, and his uncompromising passion for music. It is especially important for him to discover unknown works and to extend his repertoire on the cello, for example through his own transcriptions, in particular to work closely with composers and to perform the music of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Daniel Müller-Schott created an international furore at the age of 15 when he won first prize in the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, and this was followed by a constant and rapid success in his career. Now he works with such renowned conductors as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Gielen, Alan Gilbert, Hartmut Haenchen, Marek Janowski, James Judd, Dmitrij Kitajenko, Mario Venzago, Christoph Poppen, Gianandrea Noseda, Peter Ruzicka, Yakov Kreizberg, Michael Jurowski, Kurt Masur, Sakari Oramo and Sir André Previn. His concerts are with such internationally famous orchestras as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Hamburg NDR Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre de Paris, the Israel Symphony Orchestra, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, the Royal Flemish Philharmonic, the Seville Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra London.

In 2007 Daniel Müller-Schott will be making guest appearances as a soloist in many European countries as well as in the United States, South Africa and Japan. One special highlight will be his debut at the Tanglewood Music Festival with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Sir André Previn. Together with the NDR Symphony Orchestra he will be playing the Ligeti Cello Concerto at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival under Peter Ruzicka. For the first time he will be appearing as a guest at the Heidelberger Frühling, the Moritzburg Festival and the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival.

Further concerts are planned with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra under David Stahl, the Utah Symphony Orchestra under Keith Lockhart, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra under Arvid Engegård, the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra under Michail Jurowski and the Royal Flemish Philharmonic under Gerard Korsten, and in 2008 he will be touring throughout Europe with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and performing with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and the Wiener Symphoniker under Yakov Kreizberg in Vienna’s Musikvereinssaal.

Additional tours have been arranged in Japan with recitals and orchestral concertos with the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra under Bernhard Klee, in Spain with the Castilla Y León Symphony Orchestra under Josep Pons, in Germany with the Kammerphilharmonie Potsdam together with Julia Fischer and Martin Helmchen under Michael Sanderling, and also in Germany and neighbouring countries with the National Symphony Orchestra of the Polish Radio under Daniel Raiskin. In connection with the release of Bach’s Gamba Sonatas for the Orfeo label in the spring of 2007, Daniel Müller-Schott will be appearing, together with Angela Hewitt, in concerts around the world during the next two years.

Recitals, solo evenings and trio concertos will be held, among other venues, at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Musikhalle Hamburg, the Philharmonie München, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, at the Vancouver Recital Society and the Tonhalle Zürich. His chamber music partners include Sir André Previn, Renaud Capuçon, Julia Fischer, Jonathan Gilad, Angela Hewitt, Steven Isserlis, Robert Kulek, Olli Mustonen, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Denys Proshayev, Vadim Repin, Christian Tetzlaff, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, the Vogler Quartett and Lars Vogt.
Daniel Müller-Schott is a regular guest at international music festivals, including in Schleswig-Holstein, the Rheingau, Schwetzingen and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and at the Festival Lucerne, the Ravinia Festival Chicago, the Saratoga Festival, the Vancouver Chamber Music Festival and the City of London Festival.

Daniel Müller-Schott studied under Walter Nothas, Heinrich Schiff and Steven Isserlis. He benefited from the personal sponsorship and support of Anne-Sophie Mutter as the holder of a scholarship from her Foundation.
Since his childhood, Daniel Müller-Schott has felt a great love for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Consequently, it is hardly surprising that when he came to record his first CD, he chose the Six Suites for Cello Solo (Glissando Records).
In the meantime, Daniel Müller-Schott has made recordings for several well-known labels, and he works closely with the Orfeo label. His recordings delight both the public and the press, and have also been awarded several prizes as the Gramophone Editor’s Choice, Strad Selection or the Edison Award Nomination. For his release with Elgar and Walton Cello Concertos he was decorated with “Vierteljahrespreis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik” More CD’s will be released this year: Bach’s Gamba Sonatas with Angela Hewitt in early 2007, Shostakovich Concertos with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Yakov Kreizberg (Orfeo) in September 2007, Brahms’ Double Concerto with Julia Fischer and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra under Yakov Kreizberg (Pentatone) and the DVD release of the Mozart Piano Trio with Anne-Sophie Mutter und Sir André Previn (Deutsche Grammophon).

Daniel Müller-Schott plays the Saphir “Ex Shapiro” Matteo Goffriller cello, made in Venice in 1727. He lives in Munich, his hometown. In his spare time he is an enthusiastic jogger and badminton player. He is very interested in art, and feels a strong affinity with 19th century French painters; it is the way they treat colours and light which constantly fascinates and inspires him.