Schedule for Leonard Bernstein. Symphonic Dances. Antonнn Dvorбk. Concerto for cello with orchestra. Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Symphony No 5. Conductor - Christoph Eschenbach, Daniel Meeller Schon Schleswig Holstein Music Festival Orchestra (Bernstein Dvorak Tchaikovsky) 2022

Composer: Peter Tchaikovsky
Composer: Antonin Dvorak

Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra

Schleswig Holstein Music Festival Orchdestra
Soloist: Daniel Mueller Schott (cello)
Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach

Christoph Eschenbach trained in Hamburg. He made his US debut with the Cleveland Orchestra under George Sell before continuing his conducting studies.

From 1988-1999 he headed the Houston Symphony Orchestra.

He has been Principal Guest Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and has headed the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich.

He continues to conduct at the Chicago Ravinia Festival and the NDR Orchestra in Hamburg.

Since 2000 he has been Musical Director of the Orchestre de Paris and from 2002 he has run the Schleswig-Holstein Festival. In August 2003 he made his Bayreuth Festival conducting debut (Parsifal). In the 2003-2004 season he was Musical Director of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra with which he has toured to Europe and performed in fourteen concerts.

At the Salzburg Festival he conducted the world premiere of Reimann`s opera Zeit-Inseln as well as Mahler`s Fifth Symphony. He has made his debut with the Lyric Opera of Chicago where he conducted the opera Don Giovanni, the performance being dedicated to the fifty-year anniversary of Peter Stein`s production. Christoph Eschenbach is Principal Conductor of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival`s international Orchestral Academy.

Highly esteemd by the world`s foremost orchestras and opera houses for his commanding presence, versatility and consummate musicianship, he is in great demand as a guest conductor. As a guest conductor Christoph Eschenbach returns to the London Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the NDR Symphony Orchestra (Hamburg) and the Schleswig-Holstain Music Festival, the orchestra of which he takes on a tour of Germany, Russia, Hungary and Lithuania. He also appears with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks in Munich.

Christoph Eschenbach brings creative insight and energy to many activities as a conductor and musical collaborator, and is an ardent champion of young musicians and music of our time. Before turning to conducting Christoph Eschenbach had already earned a distinguished intrnational reputation as a concert pianist. He began winning major competitions at the age of eleven, and by 1965 he was established as the foremost pianist to emerge from post-war Germany. In a testament to his prowess as a soloist, Philips chose Eschenbach as one of the hundred pianists to be featured in their "Great Pianists of the 20th Century".

Christoph Eschenbach is a regular guest at the White Nights Festival.


The great American conductor Leonard Bernstein was the artistic mentor and patron, to whom it is to be owed that in 1987 an Orchestral Academy came into being as the first of its kind in Europe. After the model of the American Tanglewood Festival, Bernstein created in Germany a training centre for young orchestra musicians on all-highest level. It forms the centerpiece of the educational work performed by one of Europe's most important classical music festivals held in the north of Germany.



Orchestral music is the main focus of the academy, but besides that chamber music forms a further centerpiece of its work.



In Salzau, young people from around the world not only grow together as an orchestra, but they also form a social community. The experience of mutual understanding, the basic attitudes of respect and tolerance and the awareness that the world has become smaller in more ways than simply in terms of music – all these lie close to the heart of the Orchestral Academy.




In only a few years, Daniel Muller-Schott has succeeded in establishing himself on the world`s important concert stages. With his technical brilliance and authority, coupled with great intellectual and emotional esprit, he fascinates his audiences. In recent years, Daniel Muller-Schott has found international acclaim for his high degree of musicianship. It is especially important for him to discover unknown works and to perform music of the 20th century.

He created a furore internationally by winning first prize at the Moscow International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians. Since then he has appeared in concert all over the world with such renowned conductors as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Gielen, Alan Gilbert, Dmitrij Kitajenko, Gianandrea Noseda, Michail Jurowski, Kurt Masur, Sakari Oramo and Sir Andre` Previn. Furthermore, he plays with internationally famous orchestras including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, the Israel Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic and the Philharmonia Orchestra London.

Daniel Muller-Schott is a regular guest at international festivals of music, including those in Salzburg and Schleswig-Holstein, the Aspen Music Festival and the Festival of Chamber Music in Vancouver among others.

Daniel Muller-Schott has also made recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, Pentatone and EMI Classics, and he works particularly closely with the Orfeo label. Daniel Muller-Schott plays the "Ex-Shapiro" Matteo Goffriller cello, made in Venice in 1727.