| Daniel Müller-Schott |
Shostakovich CD of the month “The world now has a new great cellist.” “The magnetic young German cellist Daniel Müller-Schott
administered a dose of adrenaline ... a fearless player with technique
to burn ... But even more impressive were his gorgeous, plush tone
and his meticulous attention to expression.” In only a few years, Daniel Müller-Schott has succeeded in establishing himself on the world’s important concert stages, fascinating audiences with his technical brilliance and authority which are coupled with great intellectual and emotional spirit. Daniel Müller-Schott has found international acclaim for his high degree of musicality and the wealth of nuances in his playing, his constant search for a musical vision, and his uncompromising passion for music. It is especially important for him to discover unknown works and to extend his repertoire on the cello, for example through his own transcriptions, in particular to work closely with composers and to perform the music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Daniel Müller-Schott studied under Walter Nothas, Heinrich Schiff and Steven Isserlis. He has benefited from the personal sponsorship and support of Anne-Sophie Mutter as the holder of a scholarship from her Foundation. He created a furore internationally by winning FIRST PRIZE at the Moscow International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians. Since then he has appeared in concert all over the world with such renowned conductors as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Gielen, Alan Gilbert, Bernard Haitink, Dmitrij Kitajenko, Gianandrea Noseda, Yakov Kreizberg, Kurt Masur, Sakari Oramo and Sir André Previn. Furthermore, he plays with internationally famous orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony and Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and Hamburg, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre de Paris, the BBC Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra London, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and also the New Japan Philharmonic. In the summer of 2008, Daniel Müller-Schott was “artist in residence” at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, where he played 13 different programmes including concertos by Dvorak, Elgar and Brahms’ Double Concerto with Anne-Sophie Mutter and chamber-music by many composers from Baroque to Contemporary. He debuted at the Hollywood Bowl Festival with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Miguel Harth-Bedoya and played the complete cycle of Bach’s Solo Suites at the Stresa Festival. Together with Julia Fischer and Jonathan Biss, Müller-Schott played Beethoven's Triple Concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Tanglewood under Bernard Haitink. The highlights of the 2008/09 season will be concerts with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under Yakov Kreizberg, the Philadelphia Orchestra under Charles Dutoit, the Münchner Philharmoniker under Yakov Kreizberg, the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Christoph Eschenbach, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and the Spanish National Orchestra under Miguel Harth-Bedoya. In Prague’s Rudolfinum Daniel Müller-Schott will perform together with the Czech Philharmonia under Zdenek Mácal,. He will be appearing in South America with the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo under John Neschling and playing Walton’s Cello Concerto. Together with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra under Michael Hofstetter he will be touring Spain playing Haydn’s Cello Concerto and Bloch’s “From Jewish Life”. Furthermore, Daniel Müller-Schott will perform, together with Daniel Hope and Anne Sofie von Otter, at Carnegie Hall, playing music by composers from Theresienstadt be written during the second world war and touring in Europe, USA and Canada with Angela Hewitt in addition to the release on Hyperion of Volume No. 1 with Beethoven’s Cello Sonatas. Additionally, Müller-Schott will be performing in recitals, solo evenings and trio concerts at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Musikhalle Hamburg, the Philharmonie München, the Salzburg Mozarteum, London's Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, for the Vancouver Recital Society and in Zürich's Tonhalle. His chamber music partners include Renaud Capuçon, Julia Fischer, Jonathan Gilad, Angela Hewitt, Steven Isserlis, Robert Kulek, Olli Mustonen, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Sir André Previn, Denys Proshayev, Quatuor Ebène, Christian Tetzlaff, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, the Vogler Quartett and Lars Vogt. Daniel Müller-Schott is a regular guest at international festivals of music, for example in Salzburg, Lucerne, Schleswig-Holstein, Rheingau, Schwetzingen and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, at the City of London Festival, the Festival of Chamber Music Vancouver and in the USA at festivals, for example in Ravinia, Saratoga, Tanglewood and the Aspen Music Festival. Encouraging young people to understand the fascination of music, and helping them to experience the magical moments that music provides, is a natural task for Daniel Müller-Schott and something he introduces with enormous delight and commitment into the “Rhapsody in School” project. Since his childhood, Daniel Müller-Schott has felt a great love for the music by Johann Sebastian Bach. Consequently, it is hardly surprising that when he came to record his first CD, he chose the Six Suites for Cello Solo in Bach’s jubilee 2000 (Glissando Records). Daniel Müller-Schott has made a wide range of recordings for the ORFEO, Deutsche Grammophon, Pentatone and EMI Classics labels. His recordings have been greeted enthusiastically by both the public and the press and have also received numerous awards, including the Gramophone Editor’s Choice, Strad Selection, and “CD of the month” in the BBC’s Music Magazine. He was awarded the “Vierteljahrespreis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik” for his recordings of Elgar and Walton’s Cello Concertos and for his new release with the Shostakovich Cello Concertos recorded with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra under Yakov Kreizberg. In November 2008, the Beethoven Cello Sonatas together with Angela Hewitt, Volume 1, will be available on Hyperion. Another new release is being planned in the second half of 2009 on Orfeo: the Cello Concertos by Schumann and Volkmann, recorded with the NDR Symphony Orchestra under Christoph Eschenbach. Daniel Müller-Schott currently lives in his home town of Munich. In his leisure time he is a keen jogger and soccer player. He has also developed a considerable affinity for the fine arts, in particular for French paintings of the 19th century. Both colour and light constantly fascinate and inspire him. Since this summer, the cellist himself is now the subject of a painting by the Dresden artist Ekkehard Tischendorf, who was commissioned by the organisers of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival. Daniel Müller-Schott plays the “Ex Shapiro” Matteo Goffriller cello, made in Venice in 1727. October 2008 |
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