Ludwig Mueller
Ludwig Mueller studied at the Musikhochschule Graz with Valery Gradow and Klaus Eichholz and at the University of Music in Vienna with Günter Pichler and Ernst Kovacic. He graduated with distinction in 1989 with a degree in violin performance. Ludwig Mueller became concert master of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and in 1991 concert master of the Orquestra de Cadaquès. While working with these orchestras he regularly played with distinguished conductors such as Rudolf Barschai, Philippe Entremont, Adam Fischer, Heinz Holliger, Sir Neville Marriner, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Krzysztof Penderecki, Günter Pichler, Gennadi Roschdestwenski, Heinrich Schiff, Peter Schreier and Sándor Végh. In the field of Ancient Music and authentic performance he has worked with celebrities including Jordi Savall and Thomas Hengelbrock. In 1988 he formed the Arcus Ensemble Wien piano quintet which had its own cycle at the the Wiener Konzerthaus.
As a soloist of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and a member of the Arcus Ensemble and of the Bell'arte Ensemble Ludwig Mueller has toured many European countries, Japan and the USA and attended many international festivals including the Styriarte Graz, Bregenzer Festspiele, Carinthischer Sommer, Wien Modern, Casals-Festival Prades, Schleswig Holstein Musikfestival, and Menuhin-Festival Gstaad. He has also performed regularly with the pianist Rudolf Meister since 1990.
Ludwig Mueller gives master classes in violin performance and chamber music in Austria and Japan; in 1998 he took over a violin class at the Vienna University of Music.
In 1998, Ludwig Mueller formed the Aron Quartet at the Arnold Schoenberg Center, where it has been the quartet in residence since then. The ensemble specialises in the works of the Second Viennese School and the classical literature for string quartets.