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. Born in Munich in 1976, he studied under Walter Nothas, Heinrich Schiff and Steven Isserlis and was a scholar recipient of Anne-Sophie Mutter’s Foundation. In 1992 Daniel Müller-Schott took first prize of the Moscow International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, aged 15. His instrument is the “Ex Shapiro” Matteo Goffriller cello, made in Venice in 1727.
The opening of his 2010/11 season is notably marked with the world premiere of Peter Ruzicka’s cello concerto “Über die Grenze…”, which Müller-Schott performs under the composer’s baton with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen at the Beethovenfest Bonn. He also appears at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern both playing a solo Bach/Britten recital (latterly seeing the release of a solo Britten CD), and as soloist with NDR Hannover, and with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl with Bramwell Tovey
The 2010/11 later sees Daniel Müller-Schott as soloist with Dresden Philharmonie/André Previn, MDR Leipzig/Jun Märkl, NDR Hamburg with Krzysztof Urbanksi, Konzerthaus Berlin Orchestra/Eiji Oue, Orchestre National de France/Kurt Masur under whom he is also soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra performing Brahms Double Concerto with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Orchestra of the RAI Turin/Juraj Valcuha, Brno Philharmonic with Jakub Hruša, and in Scandinavia with Oslo Philharmonic/Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Helsinki Philharmonic/John Storgårds and Bergen Philharmonic/Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. He continues his longstanding collaboration with Yakov Kreizberg returning as soloist with Netherlands Philharmonic, and joining him with Julia Fischer on tour in Spain with l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo. Furthering a notable presence in Spain, Müller-Schott is soloist with Orquesta Sinfonica de Tenerife with Vasily Petrenko and in Castilla y Léon with Lionel Bringuier.
Müller-Schott will be soloist on an extensive German tour with the Hungarian National Symphony and Zoltán Kocsis including a performance in his native Munich at the Philharmonie am Gasteig, with the Tonhalle Orchester Zurich and David Zinman at a residency in Baden-Baden, with SWR Stuttgart in performances of Brahms Double with Baiba Skride under Thomas Dausgaard, and in the USA he is soloist under the baton of André Previn with NHK Symphony, Tokyo.
Müller-Schott’s impressive discography on ORFEO saw the release in autumn 2009 of Schumann and Robert Volkmann concerti (with Eschenbach and the NDR Hamburg). In summer 2010 Mendelssohn duos with Jonathan Gilad were released already to great critical acclaim. Both Shostakovich concerti with Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Yakov Kreizberg received exceptional praise and due out at the time of the Britten Anniversary year in 2013 will be Müller-Schott’s presentation of the Britten solo cello suites and the Britten Cello Symphony.
Müller-Schott’s chamber music partners include Nicholas Angelich, Renaud Capuçon, Viviane Hagner, Jonathan Gilad, Robert Kulek, Julia Fischer, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Sir André Previn, Arabella Steinbacher, Christian Tetzlaff, Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Lars Vogt. He will collaborate in a new trio with Renaud Capuçon and Nicholas Angelich with concerts in France and Denmark and he returns by popular demand to Dublin’s “Great Irish Houses festival” series.
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 2010/11
