Daniel Müller-Schott- violoncello, Germany

DANIEL MÜLLER-SCHOTT-violoncello

Daniel Müller-Schott is one of the most sought-after cellists in the world and can be heard on all the great international concert stages. For many years he has been enchanting audiences as an ambassador for classical music in the 21st century and as a bridge builder between music, literature, and the visual arts. Highlights of Daniel Müller-Schott’s 2024/25 season are the Germany tour with Jan Lisiecki and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, performances with longtime friend Julia Fischer of the Brahms Double Concerto, as well as concerts with the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, Orchestra of the Spanish Radio Television etc.

Daniel Müller-Schott is Artist in Residence at the Zurich Chamber Orchestra Festival 2025. At the Mecklenburg- Vorpommern Festival, he celebrates his 30th anniversary. A chamber music highlight are the concerts together with David Fray.

Daniel Müller-Schott is a guest with internationally renowned orchestras; among others in the United States with the orchestras in New York, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Los Angeles; most orchestras in Europe including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, almost all German orchestras, the leading orchestras in London as well as the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras, in Asia with Tokyo’s NHK Symphony Orchestra, Taiwan’s National Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestras. The cellist works with outstanding 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, Andris Nelsons, Gianandrea Noseda, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Kirill Petrenko, Vasily Petrenko, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Dalia Stasevska, Krzysztof Urbański, Jaap van Zweden to name but a few.

With great passion, Daniel Müller-Schott not only performs the great cello concertos from the Baroque to the modern era. The discovery of unknown works, the expansion of the cello repertoire, for example through his own arrangements and collaboration with the composers of our time. 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. His chamber music collaborations include 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 Ebènes Quartets, among others.

In a career spanning over twenty-five years, Daniel Müller-Schott has produced an impressive discography that has been honoured with numerous international awards Daniel Müller-Schott studied under Walter Nothas, Heinrich Schiff and Steven Isserlis. He was supported personally by Anne-Sophie Mutter and received, among other things, the Aida Stucki Prize as well as a year of 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.

Daniel Müller-Schott plays the “Ex Shapiro” Matteo Goffriller cello, made in Venice in 1727.