Christian Wilm Müller
The pianist Christian Wilm Müller was born in Meiningen and studied piano with Volkmar Lehmann in Weimar and Oleg Maisenberg in Vienna/Stuttgart. Detlef Kraus (Germany), Menahem Pressler (USA) and Ferenc Rados (Hungary) were also among his teachers. The numerous prizes and stipends Christian Wilm Müller has won both as a soloist and as a chamber musician include the “Virtuosi per musica di Pianoforte” Usti nad Labem, the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb, the 1st Allianz Prize awarded at the Mecklenburg-Western Pomeranian Music Festival, a German Study Fellowship, and a fellowship to the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris.
His concert tours – including as the pianist of the Liszt-Trio Weimar – have taken him to Austria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Finland, Norway, Australia, Iran, Japan, Switzerland and the CIS. He has appeared as a soloist with the Deutsche Sinfonie Orchester Berlin, the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe and the Orchester von Gotha/Suhl, Meiningen and Thessaloniki. Müller has also given concerts at the Mecklenburg-Western Pomeranian Music Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Oleg Kagan Festival, the Beethoven-Fest Sutri (I) and Kunstfest Weimar.
His recordings include live broadcasts for radio and television (NDR, mdr, Bartók Radio Budapest, DW, 3Sat) as well as various CDs. The most recent CD by the Liszt-Trio Weimar, featuring piano trios by Mauricio Kagel and Alfred Schnittke was released in 2006 by ?on of Paris and has already won the “Coup de Coeur” of the Académie Charles Cros. His first solo CD featuring the late piano works of Johannes Brahms is to be released in 2007. Müller is a professor at the Franz Liszt Conservatory in Weimar.
His concert tours – including as the pianist of the Liszt-Trio Weimar – have taken him to Austria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Finland, Norway, Australia, Iran, Japan, Switzerland and the CIS. He has appeared as a soloist with the Deutsche Sinfonie Orchester Berlin, the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe and the Orchester von Gotha/Suhl, Meiningen and Thessaloniki. Müller has also given concerts at the Mecklenburg-Western Pomeranian Music Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Oleg Kagan Festival, the Beethoven-Fest Sutri (I) and Kunstfest Weimar.
His recordings include live broadcasts for radio and television (NDR, mdr, Bartók Radio Budapest, DW, 3Sat) as well as various CDs. The most recent CD by the Liszt-Trio Weimar, featuring piano trios by Mauricio Kagel and Alfred Schnittke was released in 2006 by ?on of Paris and has already won the “Coup de Coeur” of the Académie Charles Cros. His first solo CD featuring the late piano works of Johannes Brahms is to be released in 2007. Müller is a professor at the Franz Liszt Conservatory in Weimar.
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