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. Daniel Müller-Schott is particularly interested in lecture concerts and performances in unusual places The New York Times refers to his “intensive expressiveness” and describes him as a “fearless player with technique to burn.”

Daniel Müller-Schott is Artist in Residence at the Zurich Chamber Orchestra Festival 2025. At the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, he celebrated his 30th anniversary.

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, also have a firm place in his concerts. George Alexander Albrecht, Sir André Previn and Peter Ruzicka have dedicated cello concertos to him. With Anne-Sophie Mutter and Lambert Orkis, he premiered Sebastian Currier’s “Ghost Trio” at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Both Sebastian Currier and Olli Mustonen have composed a cello sonata for Daniel Müller-Schott. For the Beethoven Year 2020, Daniel Müller-Schott premiered Jörg Widmann’s “Study on Beethoven” in Tokyo with Anne-Sophie Mutter & Friends.

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 painting of the 19th century, and plans to visit museums on his travels. The cellist is involved in art projects, such as the “Street Art” project in Munich, Berlin (ARTE), Melbourne 2016 and as artistic director of the Rügen Festival Spring. In 2020, he participated in an exhibition at Galerie Binder in Munich, curated by Daniel Man.

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.