Michael Mücke

Michael Mücke studied with Prof. Stanley Weiner at the Academy of Music and Theatre in Hamburg from 1977 and changed to the Academy of Music in Lübeck in 1980 to study with Prof. Uwe-Martin Haiberg. In the same year he founded the Trio Fontenay with Wolf Harden and Niklas Schmidt. In 1982 Michael Mücke was awarded the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Prize Berlin and was one of the young artists selected nationally for the programme Konzerte junger Künstler. He attended master courses given by Prof. Gidon Kremer, the Amadeus Quartet and the Beaux Art Trio. Michael Mücke performed throughout the world with the Trio Fontenay and made many recordings. Their joint efforts were recognized with the first prize for piano trio in the 1985 Deutschen Musikwettbewerb, in 1994 with the German Record Critics' award and the French Prix du Disc for their recording of all the Beethoven piano trios. In 1995 the Trio Fontenay was appointed Trio en Résidence au Théâtre du Chatelet in Paris. Since 2003 Michael Mücke has played first violin in the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. He has taught at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler Berlin since 1998. In August 2006 he was appointed honorary professor.

January 2009