The central questions of how music moves and connects us - it's mysterious magnetism and power to affect us on so many levels - has lead cellist Jan Müller-Szeraws’ musical journey from his native Chile over Europe to the United States, exploring them in their many forms as a performer and teacher.

He has been a guest artist at many festivals including the Cape & Islands, Rockport, El Paso Pro-Musica, Strings in the Mountains, Delaware, Music at Gretna, Florida Arts, Sebago Long Lake and Kingston Chamber Music Festivals, Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, the Garth Newel Music Center, Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society, Staunton Music Festival and the European Chamber Music Association.

His solo performances include the world premiere and recording of Bernard Hoffer's Concerto di Camera II for solo cello and ensemble written for him and the Boston Musica Viva, the premiere of Shirish Korde‘s Lalit 2nd Prism for Cello, Tabla and Orchestra with the Richmond Symphony also written for him, the Boston premiere of Gunther Schuller’s cello concerto and John Harbison's and Chou Wen-Chung’s cello concertos with the New England Philharmonic, Schumann concerto with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Concepción and Orquesta de la Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Bloch‘s Schelomo, Haydn concerto in D, Shostakovich concerto no.1 and Brahms double concerto with violinist Bayla Keyes and the Concord Orchestra (MA), Dvorak concerto with the Boston Landmarks Orchestra and Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.

As guest principal cellist he was invited to join the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra for two projects, including a live concert broadcast of Bavarian Broadcasting of Shostakovich's Symphony no. 15 with Mikhail Pletnev conducting as well as a tour to China with the orchestra‘s principal music director, Jonathan Nott. As a regular extra player, he has been extensively playing and touring with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Müller-Szeraws has been broadcasted by radio and TV stations in the United States, Chile and Germany, and recorded Pedro Humberto Allende’s cello concerto with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile, which was released by the Chilean Academy of Fine Arts as part of the celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of Chilean Independence.

Other projects include the release of "Anusvara", a disc with music by Shirish Korde for cello, tabla and carnatic soprano, the premiere and recording of Thomas Oboe Lee's "Suite for Solo Cello", both written for him, as well as a recording of sonatas for piano and cello by Brahms and Chopin with pianist Adam Golka for Hammond Performing Arts and a series of recitals for cello and harp with harpist Sivan Magen and most recently his Bach & Ragas project, which pairs Bach’s Six Suites for Solo Cello with works by Shirish Korde. His collaboration with composer and MIT professor Peter Child lead to a commission for composer/performer pairs by the Association of the Promotion of New Music.

Müller-Szeraws has been regularly performing recitals with pianists including Adam Golka, Ya-Fei Chuang, Victor Santiago Asunción and Sally Pinkas.

Since 1999 he has been the cellist of the contemporary music ensemble Boston Musica Viva and is member of the Brookline/ Andover based ensemble Mistral. In addition to having performed with many Boston based ensembles, including Collage New Music, Dinosaur Annex, Composers in Red Sneakers and Windsor Music he was a founding member of QX String Quartet and Trio Tremonti, with which he toured extensively.

For eight years Müller-Szeraws was Artist-in-Residence at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA where he directed the Performance Program and was founder and director of the Chamber Music Institute at Holy Cross, an intensive chamber music summer immersion program for gifted high school and college students. His many performances and projects with students at that institution included interdisciplinary projects with the departments of Philosophy, Psychology, Art, Theatre and Foreign Languages, as well as collaborations with Arts Transcending Borders and Create Lab as well as performances at the Worcester Art Museum.

Müller-Szeraws has been artist and teacher in residence at the "Jornadas Musicales Internacionales de Invierno" in Concepción, Chile and has taught master classes at the first Chilean National Cello Congress in Santiago as well as at the Universidad de Chile. He was a guest lecturer at the Universidad Católica de Chile for two seasons and currently teaches at the Phillips Academy Andover.

Müller-Szeraws was a prize-winner at the Washington International Competition, as well as a grant recipient of the Saul and Naomi Cohen Foundation, which is generously lending him a cello by David Tecchler (1717).

Jan Müller-Szeraws studied at the Musikhochschule Freiburg, Germany and holds a Bachelor and Master of Music Degree from Boston University. His teachers include Andrés Díaz, Christoph Henkel, Arnaldo Fuentes and Javier Santamaría.

Jan lives with his wife Melba Juez-Perrone and their three children in Harvard, Massachusetts.