Professional Activities:
2024: 2nd interdiciplinary Biennale "Erasmus klingt" in Basels Altstadt
2024: 68th Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy
2024: 3rd Open Classics am Rhein, Rheinfelden, Rhein-Inseli
2024: 19th Solsberg-Festival
2023/2024: 24th Lucerne Chamber Circle im KKL Luzern
2023: 3rd Klassiksterne A-Cappella in Don Bosco Basel
2023: October 27: Announcement of resignation as Artistic Director of Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy AG at the end of 2025
2023: 67th Gstaad Menuhin Festival & Academy
2023: 2nd Open Classics am Rhein Rheinfelden
2023: 18th Solsberg Festival
2023: 4th Basel Composition Competition
2022: 2nd Klassiksterne A-Cappella in Don Bosco Basel
2022/2023: 23rd Lucerne Chamber Circle at the KKL Luzern, in a new form (5 orchestral, 3 recital concerts).
2022: 1st "Erasmus klingt! Festival - LAB", in Basel's old town
2022: 1st Open Classics on the Rhine, Rheinfelden
2022: 66th Gstaad Menuhin Festival, resumption after pandemic
2022: 17th Solsberg Festival, resumption after pandemic
2021: 1st Classical Stars A-Cappella in Don Bosco Basel
2021: 3rd Basel Composition Competition in Don Bosco Basel (on a reduced scale)
2020/2021: Cancellation of festivals and concert series due to the pandemic
2020: Opening of "Musik- und Kulturzentrum Don Bosco Basel"
2020: Launch of "Klassiksterne A-Cappella" Basel in Musik- und Kulturzentrum Don Bosco
2019: Creation of the foundation "Basel Composition Competition", member of the foundation board
2019: Start construction work of "Musik- und Kulturzentrum Don Bosco"
2018: “Kulturzentrum Don Bosco”, launch of structural alteration work of Church to a concert- and rehearsal-building
2018: Member of the Board of Trustees, GVB Kulturstiftung Berne
2017: First Basel Composition Competition held in February
2016: Founding of association “Kulturzentrum Don Bosco”, Basel, President of the association
2015: Launch of the I Basel Composition Competition, taking place in February 2017
Since March 2015: Member of the Board of Trustees, Habisreutinger Stradivarius Foundation
2015: Creation of Hochrhein-Musikfestival AG (umbrella organisation of Solsberg-Festival, Klassiksterne Rheinfelden, Cappella Gabetta)
2014: Inauguration of "Project Haydn 2032" with concerts in Eisenstadt, Berlin, Basel and Zurich
2014: First edition of "Gstaad Conducting Academy "
Since 2013: In addition to the directorship of the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, named CEO with additional managerial duties
May 2013: Creation of the Joseph Haydn Foundation Basel. Since then, Chair of the Foundation
2012: Expansion of the Gstaad Academy with String Academy and Baroque Academy
2011: Creation of Cappella Gabetta
From season 2011/12: Creation of Klassiksterne Rheinfelden, a classical music concert series at the newly refurbished Kurbrunnen concert hall in Rheinfelden, Switzerland
From July 2010: Concert Manager of the Kammerorchester Basel as part of my duties as Managing Director of the self-founded "Artistic Management GmbH" and the concert agency "Müller & Pavlik Artistic Management GmbH", an artist agency created with Müller’s business partner Stefan Pavlik for the management and design of concert projects of the Kammerorchester Basel. Board member of the ensemble and "artistic delegate"
2010: Foundation of the Gstaad Festival Orchestra
2008: First edition of "Gstaad Academy" as part of the Menuhin Festival Gstaad, featuring Silvana Bazzoni Bartoli (Vocal) and Andras Schiff (piano)
2007: First edition of the amateur program "Play @ Menuhin Festival" as part of the Menuhin Festival 2006. Foundation of Solsberg Festival together with Sol Gabetta.
Since 2002: Artistic Director of the Menuhin Festival Gstaad. 2005-2013 Artistic Director of the Interlaken Music Festival (Interlaken Classiques), after completely redesigning the concept and planning.
Since 1999: Co-manager of the agency "Swiss classics", developing projects such as the concert series "Lucerne Chamber Circle" in the Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre and Classiques Landgasthof Riehen. Co-founder of the ticket system "kulturticket"
1997-2010: CEO / Orchestra Director of the Kammerorchester Basel. I consider myself a driving force in the establishment and evolution of KOB from a local orchestra to one of the leading and most versatile chamber orchestras in Europe
1997 - 2001: Teacher at music schools
From 1995: Cellist in the following orchestras: Schweizer Kammerorchester (principal cellist), Kammerorchester Basel, and Orchestre Philharmonique Suisse
Education and Schooling:
Born in Basel in 1970 and raised in the Basel region, graduating from Gymnasium Muttenz in 1990 with Matura in Economy.
From 1991-1998, music studies specialising in cello at Bern Conservatoire with Patrick Demenga, at Musikhochschule Bern&Biel with Conradin Brotbeck and at Musikhochschule Winterthur with Thomas Grossenbacher. Graduations in Pedagogy, Orchestra and Performance.
Chamber music tuition includes members of the Carmina Quartet, Hatto Beyerle and Walter Levin as well as Friedemann Rieger. Member of various chamber music ensembles since my university days. Numerous concerts and awards with the Eos String Quartet including the 1996 Bankverein Kulturförderpreis. Founding member oft he Trio con Brio. CD recordings with the Trio con Brio for recording label Gallo (Lausanne).
1995-2000 cellist at the Orchestre Philharmonique Suisse and Schweizer Kammerorchester.
Until 2013, Cellist at Kammerorchester Basel.
Schooling:
Elementary School, Bezirksschule 1978 – 1984
Gymnasium Muttenz 1984 – 1990, Matura Type E (Economy)
Higher Education:
1991 – 1996: Musikhochschule Bern / Biel (Switzerland): Cello studies with Patrick Demenga and Conradin Botbeck. Graduation in Pedagogy (1995) and Orchestra (1997).
1996 – 1999: Musikhochschule Winterthur / Zürich (Switzerland): Cello studies under Thomas Grossenbach (Principal cellist at Tonhalle Zürich); graduation in Performance (1999).
