Niels Muus

Niels Muus (* 1958 in West Chester , Pennsylvania ) is a Danish pianist and conductor .

Life

Niels Muus received his musical training at the music academy in Aarhus and from teachers such as Franco Ferrara , Jakob Gimpel , Tatjana Nikolajewa and Carlo Zecchi .

From 1992 to 1999 he was first Kapellmeister at the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck , where, in addition to maintaining the Italian opera repertoire, he was responsible for internationally renowned excavations such as B. Masquerade by Carl Nielsen and Antikrist by Rued Langgaard was responsible. He then moved to the Vienna Volksoper as conductor and casting director , where he worked for a total of four years.

As a conductor he appears internationally at renowned concert halls such as the Berlin Philharmonie , the Gewandhaus (Leipzig) , the Tokyo Opera City and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. As a lieder accompanist, he enjoyed great success at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris and in London's Wigmore Hall . He was a member of the jury at numerous international music competitions such as “Belvedere” ( Vienna ), Concorso Toti dal Monte ( Rovigo ) and Concurso AEOS ( Madrid ) and is often invited as a guest teacher.

Muus has been music director of the Steyr music festival in Upper Austria since 2005 .

Muus is considered a specialist in the Italian opera field, but also enjoys working with contemporary composers. The highlights of his career so far have been performances of L'elisir d'amore ( Macerata ), L'assedio di Corinto ( Corinth - Culture Olympiad), Aida ( Beijing , Reggio Calabria ), Rusalka ( Moscow ), Die Fledermaus (Moscow, Tokyo ) , Otello ( Ankara ), Falstaff ( Rovigo , Trento , Bozen ) and Satyricon ( Darmstadt ).

Muus has already received numerous international awards for his work: for the recording of Gaetano Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore the “Critic's Pick” of the New York Times , for Antikrist by the Danish composer Rued Langgaard the “Critic's Choice” of Deutsche Grammophon and finally for La Pastorella (with Akiko Nakajima and Peter Schmidl ) received a nomination for the German Record Critics' Prize .

personal data
SURNAME	Muus, Niels
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Danish pianist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH	1958
PLACE OF BIRTH	West Chester , Pennsylvania