Born in Chiclayo in Peru in 1967; the Swiss conductor Christoph-Mathias Mueller grew up in Basel, took the concert diploma in violin at the Musikhochschule Basel and the Master of Music in conducting at the University of Cincinnati. As a Conducting Fellow in Tanglewood he worked with Seiji Ozawa, Robert Spano and Leon Fleisher. In 2000 he won the conducting competition in Cadaqués. From 2001 to 2005 Claudio Abbado engaged him as assistant conductor for the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, which he also conducted at the Luzerner Osterfestspiele, and from 2003 to 2005 as Assistant Conductor with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. From 2005 to 2018 he was principal conductor of the Göttinger Symphonieorchester. In 2010 he conducted the new production of “Die Fledermaus” at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, and in the 2012/13 season “Der Rosenkavalier”. With the Göttinger Symphonieorchester he recorded the Cybele production Jacqueline Fontyn and the Concerto (2014).
Christoph-Mathias Mueller
Conductor
