Daniel Müller-Schott
Cello
“The magnetic young German cellist Daniel Müller-Schott...a fearless player with technique to burn ... 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 concert podiums. 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, the “Ex Shapiro” Matteo Goffriller was made in Venice in 1727.
Highlights of the 2011/12 season will be a tour to Germany with The Philharmonia under the baton of Kurt Masur, an appearance in Vienna’s Musikverein with the Tonnkünstler Orchestra and Andrés Orozco-Estrada, and a trio recital in London’s Barbican Centre with Anne-Sophie Mutter and André Previn then touring to Spain with pianist Lambert Orkis. He will also perform with Prague Philharmonia under Jakob Hrůša, Euskadi Symphony Orchestra and Andrey Boreyko and further afield with Houston Symphony and Gilbert Varga, Vancouver Symphony and Douglas Boyd and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra with Joanna Carneiro. In the Far East Daniel Müller Schott is guest soloist with National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan with Shao-Chia Lu, Seoul Philharmonic with Michel Plasson, and Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra with Claus Peter Flor. On tour with the Prague Symphony and Jiri Kout he will perform Brahms Double with Veronika Eberle in Prague, Germany and Switzerland.
In recital he will join Simon Trpceski in London’s Wigmore Hall, at the Schubertiade with Martin Stadtfled and other chamber partners have recently included trios with harpist Xavier de Maistre and Arabella Steinbacher, and in trio with Renaud Capuçon and Nicholas Angelich.
2011 has recently seen another addition to Müller-Schott’s impressive discography on ORFEO of the solo Britten cello suites. This is as a forerunner to a recording he will make of the Britten Cello Symphony with WDR Koln under the baton of Jukka-Pekka Saraste for release in 2013, the 100th anniversary year of Benjamin Britten.
Another highlight of 2011 saw the world premiere of André Previn’s cello concerto, dedicated to Müller-Schott, performed by its’ dedicatee with the Leipzig Gewandhaus under the composer’s baton.
Encouraging young people towards 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 2011/12
