Johannes Müller

"Thanks very much, Cannonball! I was looking for a saxophone with an old, huge sound. I have played a lot of Mark VI horns but when I played the Big Bell Tenor, I was overwhelmed. This horn is the best I ever played, it has an incredible warm sound and the intonation is amazing! Since I�ve been playing the Big Bell Tenor, people keep asking me about the instrument and its great sound. I play the sax in many different contexts and it is the perfect horn for every kind of music." ~ Johnannes Müller

Bio

Johannes Müller, born 1981 in Saarlouis, starts out to play the saxophone with his first teacher Ewald Duerrfeld at the age of 11. At the age of 14 he is taught by Tom Penninger, who after 2 years recommends him to get a further education with Thomas Girard. The latter teaches him until he is 19.

From 2002 until 2006, Johannes studied "Jazz and Popular Music" at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Mannheim. His major subject was the saxophone taught by prof. Juergen Seefelder. In July 2006, he passed with distinction.

Furthermore, Johannes has taken part in several workshops and master classes with different instructors: David Liebman, Peter Herbolzheimer, John Taylor, John Ruocco, Bruno Castelucci etc.

His active career begins conventionally with the following stages: school band, national students' big band, National Youth Jazz Orchestra of the Saarland.

During this time, Johannes starts to establish himself as a soloist with some smaller concerts.

In 2001 for the first time, he attracts the international attention with the project "Alba Quartet". With this band he plays amongst others at the "Liège Jazz Festival 2002" and makes a recording for RTBF (Radio Télévision Belgique France).

Afterwards, Johannes also makes recordings with various other projects for radio stations like Saarlaendischer-, Mitteldeutscher-, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, for the Bulgarian radio, for Jazz FM, for the Romanian State Radio and he played at further festivals.

Since 2002, Johannes is a member of the Federal Jazz Orchestra under the leadership of Peter Herbolzheimer.

Johannes already played with the following Jazz stars: David Liebman, Bob Mintzer, Ingrid Jensen, Peter Herbolzheimer, Lalo Schifrin, Peter Weniger.

Nowadays Johannes is an established and busy musician who also has various engagements in the musical and the pop music scene. In 2004 he had an engagement at the Apollon Theater in Stuttgart for the Broadway production "42nd Street" and at the theatre of Merzig for the productions of "The Three Penny Opera"and "FAME".

Also in classical music he has a lot of engagements as for example with the SWR radio orchestra with which he made a Germany tour in 2005 and a recording in 2006.

In May 2005 Johannes is awarded the soloist prize at the German federal big band competition of the universities of music.

Johannes was on tour in the following countries: South Africa, Namibia, Poland, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Italy, France, Luxemburg, Greece and Belgium.

By now he made 13 recordings.

Since 1998 he is teaching the saxophone and the clarinet at the municipal music school in Saarlouis and since 2005 he is employed at the municipal music school in Speyer. From April 2006 he is going to teach at the municipal music school in Puettlingen. He was tutor at the workshop of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra of the Saarland in 2006.

Among his concerts as soloist with various different projects, Johannes plays in the following formations: Johannes Müller's JAZZ MILE, Oliver Strauch "Regio Group", Format [8], Brassolution, Greg Lamy Quartet.

In 2005 Johannes Müller meets Ack van Rooyen as feature soloist with his project JAZZ MILE.

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