Matthias Müller

There are at least two Matthias Müller:

Matthias Müller (1) was born in 1966 and grew up in Basel. He studied clarinet, composition and piano at the Basel Academy of Music, where his most important teachers were Hans Rudolf Stalder and Jürg Wyttenbach. Since 1996 he has been a professor at the Zurich Academy of the Arts (ZHdK).

Matthias Müller is internationally active as a soloist and chamber musician. He not only performs the entire classical repertoire, but has also encouraged many composers to write new works, having premiered over 100 of these. As a composer, he has so far concentrated primarily on chamber music.

Matthias Müller directs a research project at the ZHdK for the development of the Sensor Augmented Bass Clarinet – an instrument that can be played conventionally and with which one can also simultaneously operate the computer by means of different kinds of sensors.

Matthias Müller (2): German trombonist, born 1971 in Zeven, Germany, jazz musician.