Fabian Müller (composer)


Fabian Müller is a Swiss composer.

Biography

Fabian Müller is one of the leading Swiss composers of his generation. He first studied the cello with Claude Starck at the Zurich Conservatory, but then increasingly dedicated his energies to composition. He studied composition with Josef Haselbach at the Zurich Conservatory. After completing his studies, he spent four summers at the courses of the Aspen Music Festival. While there, he studied with Jacob Druckman, Bernard Rands and George Tsontakis. In 1996, Müller won the composition prize at the Aspen Festival.
He received decisive encouragement from David Zinman, who made a recording with the Philharmonia Orchestra, London, including "Nachtgesänge" with Swedish mezzo-soprano Malena Ernman, the Cello Concerto, played by Müller's wife, the Taiwanese cellist and two further orchestral works.
Fabian Müller’s works are performed internationally by renowned orchestras and ensembles. His work catalogue to date comprises more than twenty orchestral works, some of them with soloists, many chamber music works, and one full-length stage work. In addition to his activities as a composer, Fabian Müller was artistic director of the International Music Festival Lenzburgiade in Switzerland from 2009-2013 and he is very interested in ethnomusicology. He spent ten years preparing the publication of the , a ten-volume anthology of folk music with over 10‘000 tunes from the 19th Century, which initiated a new era for the traditional music of his country.

Recent works

His recent commissions include a Vibraphone Concerto premiered by Dame Evelyn Glennie at Tonhalle Zurich 2014, the 3rd Cello Sonata for cellist Antonio Meneses, the «Concerto per Klee» for cello and chamber orchestra premiered by the cellist Steven Isserlis as well as the «Concerto for Orchestra» which was presented on a tour throughout Switzerland with «Austrian-Hungarian Haydn-Philharmonic orchestra» conducted by Christopher Hogwood. His work «Taranis» for large orchestra, was premiered by the Bern Symphony Orchestra in the season 08/09 and was on tour in Germany conducted by Andrey Boreyko in spring 2009.

Awards

Orchestral works