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Daniel Müller - Schott cellist
With technical brilliance and authority, with intellect and emotional esprit, Daniel Müller-Schott is establishing himself on the world’s important concert platforms. With studies under Walter Nothas, Heinrich Schiff and Steven Isserlis, Müller-Schott is a scholar recipient of Anne-Sophie Mutter’s Foundation. He took first prize of the Moscow International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians, aged 15. Müller-Schott 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, Bernard Haitink, Dmitrij Kitajenko, Yakov Kreizberg, Gianandrea Noseda, Kurt Masur, Sakari Oramo and André Previn, with 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. Last season he made an impressive London concerto debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Christoph Eschenbach and was immediately reinvited.
2009/2010 sees Müller-Schott return to the Schleswig Holstein Festival performing Schumann under the direction of Lawrence Foster. He performs throughout Europe and the USA with MDR Leipzig and Jun Märkl, Luzern Symphony /Yakov Kreizburg, Danish National Symphony/Thomas Dausgaard, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Lothar Zagrosek, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Kirill Karabits, Royal Scottish National Orchestra/Alexander Lazarev, Beethoven Orchestra Bonn (with Arabella Steinbacher in performances of Brahms’ Double concerto), Stuttgart Philharmonic and in the USA with Indianapolis Symphony, National Symphony (DC), Seattle, Fort Worth and Grand Rapids symphony orchestras.
On tour Daniel is soloist under the direction of Sir Neville Marriner with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in Germany and in Spain with the Orquesta Sinfonia de Euskadi.
He returns twice to Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw making his recital debut with Jonathan Gilad, and performing with the Residentie Orchestra and Krzysztof Ubanski. The duo are joined by violinist Viviane Hagner for a trio tour in Germany including Munich and Hamburg, but also perform further duos in Germany, Holland and London’s LSO St Luke’s Centre. In N. America Daniel performs recitals in Vancouver with Angela Hewitt following the releases of two CDs of works of Beethoven (Hyperion label) which have received high praise.
Müller-Schott’s impressive discography on ORFEO sees his next releases in Summer 2009 of Haydn concerti with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Schumann and Robert Volkmann concerti (with Eschenbach and the NDR Hamburg). Mendelssohn duos with Jonathan Gilad will follow shortly thereafter. Both Shostakovich concerti with Bayerischer Rundfunk under the direction of Yakov Kreizberg received exceptional praise.
Müller-Schott’s chamber music partners also include Nicholas Angelich, Renaud Capuçon, Julia Fischer, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Sir André Previn, Christian Tetzlaff, Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Lars Vogt. He will collaborate in a new trio with Renaud Capuçon and Nikolas Angelich in a future season.
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.
The Daily Telegraph: November 14, 2009, p.14
Classical CD of the week
................., Müller-Schott opens up fresh vistas of tonal shading and sincere expression. He has a naturally singing line that suits the Schumann perfectly. His phrasing is long-breathed, the paragraphs of music articulated with elegance and a restrained passion shared by the way in which the orchestra voices its textures with tenderness.
..............the Volkmann nevertheless receives an affectionate and spirited performance from Müller-Schott, and the gently reflective final section, after some quicker outbursts, is a thing of genuine beauty, with a strange ruminative passage that dissolves away near the end before the affirmative cadential chords..............
In the Bruch, Müller-Schott brings to mind the great Pierre Fournier in his poise and rapt concentration, confirming that this is a disc for connoisseurs of the most polished cello playing. Geoffrey Norris
“The Magic of Music”
Pleasure all round
“How far is it from the laconic to the melancholic? In Daniel Müller-Schott’s case, they’re just a bar line apart. The transition is made between bars 131 and 132 of the 1st movement of Antonin Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in the MDR Concert at the Gewandhaus on Sunday evening. The soloist effortlessly swerves around, and gentle melancholy flows from his cello from which he had only a moment ago aloofly and laconically bowed the theme so cautiously conveyed by sombre clarinets and bright strings. And then all there is a feeling: the heart-rending emotions of the young cellist alone or in dialogue with the flute and the rest of the orchestra … In the second movement, a hesitant, tentative, pensively searching cello with the brilliant Müller-Schott over a fine tonal substrate of clarinets and deep pizzicato strings and lithe horns. Here the conductor Jun Märkl only has to oversee, gently wave on and accompany. Everything else flows of its own accord. As in the magnificent finale where the strings resolutely join forces or tenderly separate and where dazzling brass fanfares contribute to a conciliatory end and the solo cello thrusts itself to the fore and fades away in a melting vibrato. There was great rejoicing in the sold-out Grand Hall after the first half of the concert …”
Birgit Hendrich, Leipziger Volkszeitung, 15th September 2009
“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
