Elisabeth Müller

Elisabeth Müller is fascinated by discovering the unknown with the accordion. Since the age of 14, she has been premiering new works and has become a specialist in contemporary music, whose boundaries she also explores through improvisation and performance art. But the appeal of the unexpected took her further into eras rarely touched upon by the accordion, such as the Renaissance and the early Baroque. She gave her first concert as a soloist with an orchestra at the age of 12, was broadcast live on the radio by Deutschlandradio Kultur as a teenager, won five first federal prizes at Jugend musiziert and played at festivals such as Impuls Graz, MehrLicht!Musik und Klangwerkstatt Berlin, Winterwerft Frankfurt a. M., den Darmstädter Ferienkursen und Transparent Sound New Music Festival Budapest. In 2024, she won first prize at the international accordion competition in Tianjin (China) and was featured as ‘Ö1 Talent’ in February 2024. In 2025, she was awarded the Swiss Hans Schaeuble Award and was a prize-winner at the Arrasate Hiria international accordion competition (Spain). She has also received special prizes from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and the German Music Publishers’ Association, as well as a scholarship for excellence from MUK Vienna, and was a scholarship holder of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. She completed three degree programmes with distinction, is a member of the Berlin-based ‘Kollektiv Unruhe‘ for contemporary Music, and has led seminars on improvisation at the European Forum Alpbach and at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan.

She teaches at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.