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., the Darmstädter Ferienkursen and Transparent Sound New Music Festival Budapest. In 2024, she won the first prize at the international accordion competition in Tianjin (China), and in 2025 she was honored with the Swiss Hans Schaeuble Award. Elisabeth Müller also received special awards from the German Music Life Foundation and the German Music Publishers Association as well as an excellence scholarship from the MUK Vienna, is a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and was honoured as Ö1-Talent in February 2024. She is a member of the Berlin based ensemble Unruhe for new music and led seminars on improvisation at the European Forum Alpbach in 2023 and at the Nuova Accademia di belle Arti Milano in 2024. Currently she studies with Prof. Grzegorz Stopa at MUK Vienna.