Daniel Müller-Schott
Cello
“The magnetic young German cellist Daniel Müller-Schott...a fearless player with technique to burn ... But even more impressive were his gorgeous, plush tone and his meticulous attention to expression.”
The New York Times
With technical brilliance and authority, with intellect and emotional esprit, Daniel Müller-Schott is establishing himself on the world’s important concert platforms. With studies under Walter Nothas, Heinrich Schiff and Steven Isserlis, Müller-Schott is a scholar recipient of Anne-Sophie Mutter’s Foundation. He took first prize of the Moscow International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, aged 15. Müller-Schott plays the “Ex Shapiro” Matteo Goffriller cello, made in Venice in 1727.
Conductors with whom Müller-Schott collaborates include Vladimir Ashkenazy, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Alan Gilbert, Bernard Haitink, Dmitrij Kitajenko, Yakov Kreizberg, Gianandrea Noseda, Kurt Masur, Sakari Oramo and André Previn, with such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestras, Oslo Philharmonic, the radio orchestras of Berlin and Hamburg, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de Paris, The Philharmonia, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the New Japan Philharmonic. Last season he made an impressive London concerto debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Christoph Eschenbach and was immediately reinvited.
2009/2010 sees Müller-Schott return to the Schleswig-Holstein Festival performing Schumann under the direction of Lawrence Foster. He performs throughout Europe and the USA with MDR Leipzig and Jun Märkl, Luzern Symphony /Yakov Kreizberg, Danish National Symphony/Thomas Dausgaard, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Lothar Zagrosek, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Kirill Karabits, Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Alexander Lazarev, Beethoven Orchestra Bonn (with Arabella Steinbacher in performances of Brahms’ Double concerto), Stuttgart Philharmonic and in the USA with Indianapolis Symphony, National Symphony (DC), Seattle, Fort Worth and Grand Rapids Symphony orchestras.
On tour Daniel is soloist under the direction of Sir Neville Marriner with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in Germany and in Spain with the Orquesta Sinfonia de Euskadi.
He returns twice to Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw making his recital debut with Jonathan Gilad, and performing with the Residentie Orchestra and Krzysztof Urbanski. The duo are joined by violinist Viviane Hagner for a trio tour in Germany including Munich and Hamburg, but also perform further duos in Germany, Holland and London’s LSO St Luke’s Centre. In North America Daniel performs recitals in Vancouver with Angela Hewitt following the releases of two CDs of works of Beethoven (Hyperion label) which have received high praise.
Müller-Schott’s impressive discography on ORFEO sees his next release in Autumn 2009 of Schumann and Robert Volkmann concerti (with Eschenbach and the NDR Hamburg). Mendelssohn duos with Jonathan Gilad will follow shortly thereafter. Both Shostakovich concerti with Bayerischer Rundfunk under the direction of Yakov Kreizberg received exceptional praise.
Müller-Schott’s chamber music partners also include Nicholas Angelich, Renaud Capuçon, Julia Fischer, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Sir André Previn, Christian Tetzlaff, Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Lars Vogt. He will collaborate in a new trio with Renaud Capuçon and Nikolas Angelich in a future season.
Encouraging young people to understand the fascination and magic of music Daniel Müller-Schott is a regular leader of the “Rhapsody in School” project, the brainchild of his friend and pianist, Lars Vogt.
SEASON 2009/2010
