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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 2026/27 season include concerts with the Orchestre National de France under Cristian Măcelaru, with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester under Andris Poga, the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Edward Gardner, as well as the season opening of La Scala in Milan with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano under Marko Letonja. Further concert highlights by Daniel Müller-Schott will follow with the Katowice Radio Orchestra (NOSPR) and Gilbert Varga, with Het Residentie Orkest under Jun Märkl, the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra under Tomáš Hanus, the Prague Philharmonia under Emmanuel Villaume and with the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra under Kerem Hasan, the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla under Eun Sun Kim and the Parma Filarmonica Toscanini under Kent Nagano.
In June 2027, Daniel Müller-Schott will serve as Chairman of the Jury for the newly established Danish International Cello Competition 2027, in its inaugural edition. The Vevey Spring Classic Festival, which Daniel Müller-Schott founded together with conductor Wilson Hermanto, will enter its 6th edition in 2027 – and will celebrate two special anniversaries: the 150th birthday of Pablo Casals and Daniel Müller-Schott's own 50th birthday.
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.
