Hailed as a “major talent” by Gramophone, Jean Muller has shown exceptional musical gifts since his earliest childhood. At age seven, he assembled his first Chopin Étude and has been performing on stage ever since.

 

He began his training at the Conservatoire de Luxembourg in the class of Marie-José Hengesch, before going on to study with leading pianists and pedagogues across Europe — in Brussels, Munich, Paris, and Riga — including Teofils Bikis, Eugen Indjic, Evgeny Moguilevsky, Gerhard Oppitz, and Michael Schäfer. He has also received guidance from Anne Queffélec, Leon Fleisher, Janos Starker, and Fou Ts’ong.

 

A master craftsman praised for his “savage technical voltage” (Gramophone), Muller is admired for his bold interpretive risk-taking and refined poetic instincts. His performances have been described as “guaranteed to bring chills and thrills” (Fanfare) and imbued with “his very special brand of magic.”

 

When Jean Muller won the Poulenc Competition in Limoges in 2004, the president of the jury, Jean-Claude Pennetier, remarked:

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“Everything is there: fingers, head and heart.”

 

Muller approaches the classics of the piano repertoire with humility, imagination, and “recreative urgency” — always seeking a balance between structure and expression, tradition and individuality.

 

In parallel to his concert career, Jean Muller is an influential pedagogue devoted to the development of young talent. As a professor at the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg, he shares his artistic vision and technical expertise with the next generation of pianists. His teaching blends tradition with a forward-thinking understanding of learning, a deep knowledge of the instrument, and an acute awareness of the capabilities of the human body — valuing depth, curiosity, and originality.