Liepāja Symphony Orchestra announces the distinguished cellist Daniel Müller-Schott as the featured soloist for the opening concert of the Liepāja International Star Festival. The concert will take place on March 8, 2025, at the Great Amber Concert Hall, showcasing Müller-Schott's virtuosity in Camille Saint-Saëns' timeless Cello Concerto No. 1.
Daniel Müller-Schott, celebrated worldwide for his deeply expressive interpretations and technical brilliance, joins forces with the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra under the baton of conductor Guntis Kuzma. This collaboration promises an evening of musical splendour, blending Müller-Schott's artistry with the orchestra's rich heritage and Kuzma's enthusiastic leadership.
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. “The New York Times” refers to his “intensive expressiveness” and describes him as a “fearless player with technique to burn”.
Daniel Müller-Schott guests with international leading orchestras; in the US with the orchestras in New York, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Los Angeles; in Europe the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Radio Orchestras from Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Leipzig, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Prague and Paris, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich, the London Symphony and Philharmonic Orchestras, as well as in Australia with the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and in Asia with Tokyo’s NHK Symphony Orchestra, Taiwan’s National Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and many other.
Daniel Müller-Schott performs with great passion not only the great cello concertos from the baroque to the modern. The discovery of unknown works, the expansion of the cello repertoire, for example through his own arrangements, and the collaboration with the composers of our time, also have a permanent place in his concerts. George Alexander Albrecht, Sir André Previn and Peter Ruzicka have dedicated Cello Concertos to him.
In a career spanning more than twenty-five years, Daniel Müller-Schott has produced an extensive discography that has won him international awards. It includes, among others, compositions by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Haydn, Schumann, Grieg, Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Schubert, Khachaturian, Shostakovich, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Elgar, Walton, Britten Dvořák, Lalo, Honegger and Saint-Saëns.
Daniel Müller-Schott plays the “Ex Shapiro” Matteo Goffriller cello, made in Venice in 1727.
In March 2025 the Liepāja International Star Festival will shine bright for the 33rd time already, this time it will be held in celebration of Liepāja City's 400th anniversary and a special place in this Festival will be dedicated to piano music.
At the city's anniversary Festival, the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra will offer the audience five concerts at “Lielais dzintars” Concert Hall.
You can find the festival programme here.
Tickets for the Festival concerts can be purchased at "Biļešu Paradīze" ticket offices and www.bilesuparadize.lv.
The 33rd Liepāja International Star Festival is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, State Culture Capital Foundation, Liepāja City and SEB bank.
