Jan Müller Szeraws
Cello

Cellist Jan Müller-Szeraws’ musical journey has taken him over three continents as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher. 

Since his early debut with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Concepción he has performed frequently as a soloist with orchestras in Chile, Germany and the United States. He has been a guest artist at many festivals including the Cape & Islands, Rockport, El Paso Pro-Musica, Strings in the Mountains, Delaware, Music at Gretna and Kingston Chamber Music Festivals, the Garth Newel Music Center, the European Chamber Music Association the Walden Chamber Players and has collaborated with ensembles such as the Muir and St. Petersburg String Quartets.

Recent performances include Chou Wen-Chung’s cello concerto with the New England Philharmonic, the Dvorak concerto with the Boston Landmarks Orchestra and Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. He also recorded Pedro Humberto Allende’s cello concerto with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile, recording which has been released by the Chilean Academy of Fine Arts as part of the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of Chilean Independence. 

Müller-Szeraws performs regularly with contemporary music ensemble Boston Musica Viva. He is a member of Mistral, the resident and touring ensemble of the Andover Chamber Music Series and founding member of QX String Quartet. He has performed for WGBH radio station in the United States, WDR and SWR in Germany and Radio UDEC in Chile.

Müller-Szeraws has been artist and teacher in residence at the Jornadas Musicales Internacionales de Invierno in Concepción, Chile and has taught Master Classes at the Garth Newel Music Center, Columbus State University and Academia de Música Antonio Vivaldi, Concepción. This year he will be a guest lecturer at the Universidad Católica de Chile. He currently teaches at the Phillips Academy in Andover, MA 

He has been awarded the “Musikpreis der Museumsgesellschaft Freiburg i. Br.” and has been a Scholarship holder of the “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes”, as well as a recipient of a Deans Scholarship and Performance Award at Boston University. A prize winner at the Washington International Competition he is a grant recipient of the Saul and Naomi Cohen Foundation.

Jan Müller-Szeraws studied at the Musikhochschule Freiburg, Germany and holds a Bachelor and Master's of Music Degree from Boston University. His teachers include Andrés Díaz, Christoph Henkel, Xavier Gagnepain, Arnaldo Fuentes and Javier Santamaría.