Fabian Müller is one of the leading Swiss composers of his generation. His works were premiered by great musicians of our time such as David Zinman, Andris Nelsons, Sir Roger Norrington, Christopher Hogwood, Steven Isserlis, and Dame Evelyn Glennie, and were heard in the prestigious halls of the world including the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Tonhalle Zurich, the KKL Lucerne, St. Petersburg Philharmonic and the Teatro Colón.

 

He got commissions from the Lucerne Festival, the Interlaken Music Festival, Cully Classique or the Vestfold Festspillene in Norway, and his works were performed at the Festival La Chaise Dieux in France, the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado or at the Festival Internacional de Ushuaia in Argentina. 

 

Numerous CD recordings show his versatile oeuvre with among others, the Philharmonia Orchestra (David Zinman), the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra or the Petersen Quartet Berlin (for ARS Produktion, col legno, Capriccio, Sony Classical, etc.).

 

His opera "EIGER" premiered in the 21/22 season became one of the greatest opera successes in Switzerland in recent years. Critics in the Luzerner Zeitung called it "a Swiss masterpiece". His new children's opera about "Heidi" was successfully premiered in the 23/24 season with over 20 performances.

 

For the OneSong Orchestra's New Years Concert 2023 he composed "Mother Earth”, a symphonic sketch of a taiwanese scenery, inspired by Taiwan’s marvellous nature and landscapes and the paintings of his father in law Tsang-Rong Chien.

 

Following his cello studies at the Zurich Conservatory with Claude Starck, Fabian Müller studied composition in Zurich and the USA, where in 1996 he won the Jacob Druckman Award for Orchestral Composition. In 2006, he received a cultural award from the Canton of Zurich and, in 2012, the Zollikon Art Prize for his work to date. In 2016 he was winner of a Swiss Music Prize of the Federal Office of Culture.

 

From 2015-2020 he was a member of the jury at the international composition competition "Tonali" in Hamburg, Germany. In 2024 he is on the jury of the Camerata Zürich youth composition competition.

 

In addition to his work as a composer, he is interested in folk music. For ten years (1991-2002), he worked on the publication of the Hanny Christen Collection, a ten-volume folk music anthology with over 10,000 tunes from the 19th century.

The latest album Uncommon Concertos, which was nominated for Composer of the Year at Germany's OPUS Klassik Awards in 2024, has also been nominated for Best Contemporary Music Album at the 2025 International Classical Music Awards (ICMA)!