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Daniel
Müller-Schott
Cello
Daniel Müller-Schott
Daniel Müller-Schott is one of the most sought-after
cellists in the world today and can be heard on all international concert
stages. For many years he has been enchanting audiences as an ambassador for
classical music, playing with the world’s leading Orchestras and Conductors, as
well as forming bridges between music, literature, and the visual arts. The New
York Times refers to his "intensive expressiveness" and describes him
as a "fearless player with technique to burn".
Highlights of Daniel Müller-Schott's 2025/26 season include Elgar's Cello Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra under Antonio Pappano and the chamber music evening at New York's Carnegie Hall together with „Maxim Vengerov and Friends"; with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra/ Jun Märkl, with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra/ Daniele Rustioni and as part of the Kissinger Sommer with the Czech Philharmonic/ Dalia Stasevska.
Daniel Müller-Schott will give an extensive tour of concerts in Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, playing with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra/ Lionel Bringuier, with the Auckland Philharmonia/Giovanni Bellincampi, the Tasmanian Symphony/Eivind Aadland, and with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra/Mark Wigglesworth.
In January, Daniel Müller-Schott will be heard in
Taiwan in Paul Huang's chamber music series and with the NSO National Symphony
Orchestra/ Jun Märkl. He is touring Asia with the WDR Symphony Orchestra/ Andris Poga with opening concerts in the
Cologne Philharmonic and in the Bielefeld Rudolf-Oetker-Halle. The Vevey Spring
Classic Festival, which Daniel Müller-Schott founded together with conductor
Wilson Hermanto, will enter its 5th edition in 2026.
Daniel Müller-Schott is a regular guest with the most renowned orchestras in
the world today; in the United States with the orchestras in New York, Boston,
Cleveland, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Los Angeles; in Europe with
the Berlin Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Bavarian State
Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the radio orchestras of Berlin, Munich,
Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Prague and Paris, Orchestre
National de France, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and Zurich Chamber Orchestra,
the Oslo Philharmonic, the London Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestra, the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and the
Spanish National Orchestra, as well as in Australia with the Sydney and
Melbourne Symphony Orchestras, in Asia with Tokyo's NHK Symphony Orchestra,
Taiwan's National Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony and Seoul Philharmonic
Orchestra.
The cellist works with conductors such as Marc
Albrecht, Karina Canellakis, Thomas Dausgaard, Christoph Eschenbach, Iván
Fischer, Alan Gilbert, Manfred Honeck, Neeme Järvi, Fabio Luisi, Cristian
Măcelaru, Susanna Mälkki, Jun Märkl, Juanjo Mena, Andris Nelsons, Gianandrea
Noseda, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Kirill Petrenko, Vasily Petrenko, Jukka-Pekka
Saraste, Dalia Stasevska, Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, Krzysztof Urbański, Jaap van
Zweden and Simone Young.
He has held long-standing collaborations with Yakov
Kreizberg, Kurt Masur, Lorin Maazel, and Sir André Previn.
Daniel Müller-Schott not only performs cello concertos
from the Baroque to the modern era but is also keen to discover unknown works
for the expansion of the cello repertoire through his own arrangements and
collaboration with the composers of our time. George Alexander Albrecht, Sir
André Previn and Peter Ruzicka have dedicated cello concertos to him.
Daniel Müller-Schott's artistic credo is to create a
higher intensity of perception between music, visual arts, and literature. He gives introductions to the background of the music and
the composers and has written many of his CD booklet texts. At his festival
in Vevey, he initiated a Bach project with dance to visually translate the
music. The cellist has developed a great affinity for the visual arts,
especially for French paintings of the 19th. century.
Daniel Müller-Schott is regularly invited to
international music festivals. In his chamber music concerts, Daniel
Müller-Schott works with Kit Armstrong, Renaud Capuçon, Veronika Eberle, Julia
Fischer, Janine Jansen, Sabine Meyer, Nils Mönkemeyer, Anne-Sophie Mutter,
Francesco Piemontesi, Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, Simon Trpčeski and with the
Modigliani, the Aris, and Ebène Quartets, among others.
Daniel Müller-Schott has been involved in the "Rhapsody in School" project for many years and regularly gives master classes worldwide.
In a
career spanning over thirty years, Daniel Müller-Schott has produced an
impressive discography, which have been honored with numerous international
awards. Nex year Daniel Müller-Schott will release works by
the baroque masters Boccherini, Geminiani, Vivaldi and Bach on ORFEO
International and all streaming platforms.
Daniel
Müller-Schott studied under Walter Nothas, Heinrich Schiff, and Steven
Isserlis. He was supported personally by Anne-Sophie Mutter and
received the Aida Stucki Prize as well as the private tuition under Mstislaw
Rostropovich. At the age of fifteen, Daniel Müller-Schott won the first prize
at the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians in 1992 in
Moscow, which lounged the start of his solo career.
Daniel Müller-Schott plays the “Ex Shapiro” Matteo Goffriller cello, made in
Venice in 1727.
Season 2025 / 2026
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News
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24.08.2024Daniel Müller-Schott stands in for Mischa Maisky at the Tivoli Summer Festival
Press
"On his new CD, the great cello master Daniel Müller-Schott shows how wittily, virtuosically and passionately composers such as Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, Arthur Honegger and Édouard Lalo understood the cello as an eloquent, incredibly flexible "speaking" solo instrument. [...] The highlight of the CD is probably Lalo's much too rarely played cello adventure with Spanish coloring. Müller-Schott's Goffriller cello sounds as supple as it is gripping, as in love with rhythm in the enchanting intermezzo movement as it is fiery in the glowing finale."
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Harald Eggebrecht, 11.10.2021
"Müller-Schott adds to his growing list of accomplished recordings with this exciting release of two major cello works by Richard Strauss. […] It says a great deal about Müller-Scott that he need not fear comparison with the performances by some of the greatest cellists of the last century, such as Fournier, Rostropovich and Tortelier."
The Classic Review, David A. McConnel, 28.08.2019
"Effortless - Daniel Müller-Schott in the Mozart Hall of the Alte Oper -- Daniel Müller-Schott has the staying power required for the juxtaposition of Johannes Brahms' Second Sonata for Cello and Piano in F major op. 99 with the only contribution to the genre by Richard Strauss. In the chamber music evening of the Museum Society, the Munich-born cellist spanned the wide intervals in the first movement of the Brahms sonata with effortless phrasing, always playing with great and full tone, precise and cultivated to the extreme forte. He found a courageous solution for the slow movement of the Sonata in F major op. 6 by Richard Strauss by letting it pass by completely pale, shadowed, as if in a trance. [...]"
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Axel Zibulski, 18.12.2019
"Whether contemporary works, romantic repertoire or baroque sounds: Daniel Müller-Schott feels at home in every era - and never tires of rediscovering the cello repertoire."
BR Klassik, Antonia Morin, 17.12.2019
"Everything sounds as if it was originally conceived for cello, with the added bonus of wider tessitural possibilities, which are nicely utilised in these transcriptions and tempered by a beautifully clear recording. Expert and stylish performances from Müller-Schott and the period orchestra L’Arte del Mondo present a magical partnership, tasteful playing coupled with judiciously elegant shaping of phrases.[…] a brilliantly executed, beautifully recorded and tremendously enterprising project. [about the recording “#Celloreimagined”]"
The Strad, Joanne Talbot, 01.03.2018
Calendar
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29.04.2026IsarphilharmonieMünchenLearn more
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20.05.2026Palais im Großen Garten DresdenDresdenLearn more
















