Jan Müller-Wieland

Jan Müller-Wieland (born 30 March 1966 in Hamburg) is a German composer and conductor of classical music and an academic teacher. He is known for his operas. Career Müller-Wieland studied at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, composition with Friedhelm Döhl, double bass with Willi Beyer and conducting with Günther Behrens. He studied composition with Hans Werner Henze in Cologne and Rome, and Oliver Knussen in the Tanglewood Music Center. Müller-Wieland was a Stipendiat of the Villa Massimo in 1992/93. He was awarded the Hindemith Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in 1993 and the Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize in 2002. From 2003 he has been a member of the Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg. Müller-Wieland has been a Professor for composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München since 2007. Müller-Wieland is a member of the festival A*Devantgarde. He is married to the Austrian author . Opera As of 2011, Müller-Wieland had composed 14 operas. His first opera Das Gastspiel, subtitled “Cabaret Farce for singers, pianists and percussionists”, a chamber opera after Frank Wedekind’s Posse (farce) Der Kammersänger, was premiered at the Munich Biennale in 1992. The lib