With technical brilliance and authority, with intellect and emotional esprit, in only a few years Daniel Müller-Schott has succeeded in establishing himself on the world’s important concert platforms. With studies under Walter Nothas, Heinrich Schiff and Steven Isserlis, Müller-Schott has also benefited from the personal support of Anne-Sophie Mutter as a scholarship recipient from her Foundation.  Aged only 15, the start of a notable career was recognised as he took first prize of the Moscow International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians. He 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, Dmitrij Kitajenko, Gianandrea Noseda, Yakov Kreizberg, Kurt Masur, Sakari Oramo and Sir André Previn on the podiums of 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.
During 2007/08 Müller-Schott performs with the Hamburg State Philharmonic/Simone Young, with both the Vienna Symphony and Chamber Orchestra of Europe under Yakov Kreizberg,  Saarbruchen Radio Orchestra/Christoph Poppen,  Brabants Orchestra/Reinhard Goebel.  He made his Finnish debut  with the Tapiola Sinfonietta under its’ Artistic Director Olli Mustonen and toured with the Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Raiskin performing in Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw Hall, Cologne’s Philharmonie, and Antwerp.
Daniel Müller-Schott collaborates with pianist Angela Hewitt. Their debut recording of Bach’s Gamba Sonatas on the ORFEO label has won huge praise. As well as continued recording plans performances in 2007/08 include Stuttgart, Copenhagen, London, Bologna, San Francisco and Vancouver, where he was also soloist with the Vancouver Symphony.
In summer 2008 Müller-Schott tours with Christoph Eschenbach and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra.  He debuts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl Festival and is “Artist in Residence” at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 2008 Festival. Following his debut in 2007 at the Tanglewood Festival with the Boston Symphony under Sir André Previn, he was immediately invited to return in 2008 under the baton of Bernard Haitink.
Müller-Schott’s chamber music partners include Anne-Sophie Mutter, Sir André Previn, Julia Fischer, Angela Hewitt, Renaud Capuçon, Robert Kulek, Olli Mustonen, Lars Vogt, Christian Tetzlaff and Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
Müller-Schott’s impressive discography on ORFEO is soon to include Shostakovich's Cello Concertos with the Symphony Orchestra of the Bayerischer Rundfunk conducted by Yakov Kreizberg release in spring 2008.
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.      

January 2008

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