MAX MÜLLER - operetta made to measure, a declaration of love!

The actor, singer and entertainer Max Müller has long been a cult figure as the Bavarian police sergeant Michi Mohr in the successful ZDF series "Die Rosenheim-Cops". After studying at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Max Müller's acting career began with the leading role in the feature film "Fleischwolf", for which he was nominated for the Max Ophüls Prize. This was followed by numerous guest roles in TV series such as "Kommissar Rex", "Schlosshotel Orth" and "SOKO Kitzbühel" as well as appearances in the TV films "Marie Bonaparte" and "Stefan Zweig", among others. Max Müller's stage engagements have taken him to renowned theaters in Austria and abroad, including the Schauspielhaus Vienna, the Renaissance Theater Berlin, the Théâtre de la Bastille in Paris and the Theater in der Josefstadt, where he was also a permanent member of the ensemble from 1993 to 2000. He has also performed at the Reichenau Festival and the Mörbisch Lake Festival.

It is probably less well known that Max Müller is also a trained opera singer and studied at the Vienna University of Music and with renowned teachers such as Charlotte Grubenmann and Kammersänger Walter Berry. In 2002, he made his operatic debut as a lyric baritone in the title role of the church opera "Franziskus" at the Carinthian Summer. Highly praised by audiences and critics, the singer also regularly performed at the Gottfried von Einem Festival from 2004 to 2011. Max Müller also designs various solo programs, since 2010 also for the Vienna Musikverein. The artist can look back on collaborations with renowned artists such as Otto Schenk, Fritz Muliar, Heinz Marecek, Sissy Löwinger, Gerda Fröhlich, Werner Schneyder, Jörg Schneider, Gunter Krää, Walter Bannert, Erhard Riedlsperger, Cyprien Katsaris, Karin and Doris Adam, Oleg Maisenberg and Robert Holl. His successful CD projects include the recordings "Ewig Dein Mozart" (2012), "Weihnachten! Stories. Songs. Gedichte" (2014) together with Elisabeth Daxer, "Geschichte eines Nussknackers" (2016) with the Munich Symphony Orchestra and "Tierisch" (2017) with Volker Nemmer.

Max Müller has already been nominated for the Austrian film and television award Romy in the category "Most popular actor series/series". In 2008, he was named Bavarian Honorary Commissioner, and in 2019 he was also named Hessian Honorary Commissioner. In addition, the versatile actor was named "Carinthian of the Year" in the "Culture" category in March 2018 and has been awarded the "Star of Security" by the Free State of Bavaria.

Volker Nemmer is a song accompanist, chamber musician and soloist. He studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (instrumental and vocal teacher training) and at the Vienna Conservatory (accompaniment and song accompaniment). Concert activities in Austria, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Croatia, Liechtenstein, Sweden, Switzerland, France, England and the USA. Participation in numerous festivals, including the "Concerti per l 'Europa" in Venice, The Sound of Dreams (London), the Wiener Musiksommer - Klangbogen, the Colourscape Festival, the Carinthian Summer, the Festival Hörgänge at the Wiener Konzerthaus, the Wien Modern Festival, the Allegro vivo Festival, the Capriccio concert series at the Musikverein Vienna, the European Festival Weeks Passau and numerous Jeunesse musicale concerts (Bruckner Haus Linz). Volker Nemmer has been a regular guest at the Musikverein Wien since 2010. Intensive artistic collaboration with the singers Ulla Pilz, Max Müller and Konrad Huber as well as with Hermine Haselböck, Anna Maria Pammer, Adrian Eröd, Matthias Hausmann, Robert Holl, Wolfgang Holzmair, Alexander Kaimbacher, Thomas Weinhappel, Mario Zeffiri and the composers Julia Tsenova, Dirk D'Ase, Herwig Reiter and Wolfram Wagner.

Artistic collaboration with the company homunculus (1992 - 2004) and participation in the performance series "Tanz im Exil" at the Vienna Akademietheater (ballet of the Vienna Volksoper), at the Impulstanz Festival 2005, at the festival "Österreich tanzt 08" at the Festspielhaus St. Pölten and at the dance festival "Berührungen" 2008 at the Odeon.

CD recordings with Max Müller: Ewig Dein Mozart (2012), Tierisch! (2017) and with Konrad Huber: Fahrende Gesellen - Eine Zeitreise (2018).

Claudia Sturm, 1st violin
Roland Herret, 2nd violin
Anna Dean, Viola
Jakob Gisler, violoncello

 "Such musicians with a pronounced interest and determined attitude make classical music exciting (again)." Karl Harb, Salzburger Nachrichten, 2016

In May 2017, the Viennese ADAMAS Quartet was awarded the Pasticcio Prize by Ö1 for its second CD. Shortly before that, in March 2017, the four musicians won 3rd prize at the International Haydn Chamber Music Competition in Vienna. In 2016/17, the quartet was supported by the Britten and Pears Foundation in Alderbourgh (UK), which invited them for a two-week stay as a quartet in residence, and by the Académie musicale de Villecroze.

In April 2013, the ADAMAS Quartet received the "Jeunesse - MehrWERT-Preis der Erste Bank", which was followed by the recording of their debut CD with Gramola Vienna. The CD received the Star of the Month from the culture magazine DIE BÜHNE, the Pasticcio Prize from Ö1, was chosen as the CD of the week of the classical music meeting point on Ö1 and Radio Stephansdom and also received an international award: the "Diapason découverte" from the renowned French classical music magazine "Diapason".

In addition to these awards, the ADAMAS Quartet received 1st prize and the special prize for the best Schubert interpretation at the international Schubert competition in Ruse, 1st prize and the special prize at the international "Ostracized Music" competition in Schwerin and the Polish Music Prize of the "International Summer Academy Vienna-Prague-Budapest".

The ADAMAS Quartet is studying for a master's degree in string chamber music with Prof. Johannes Meissl at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and is constantly attending master classes. They have completed courses with Hatto Beyerle and Miguel da Silva at the Académie musicale de Villecroze and with members of the Artis Quartet, Evgenia Epshtein, Christoph Richter and Christophe Giovaninetti as part of the "EuropeanChamberMusicAssociation" sessions and the Vienna-Prague-Budapest International Summer Academy, as well as with members of the Juilliard Quartet at the Julliard School in New York.

As part of the International Music Education Network, the four musicians are committed to giving all children worldwide access to high-quality musical education. They continue to pass on their musical knowledge at chamber music courses and instrumental classes. Pro bono, they taught pupils from the Simon Bolivar School in Bolivia and the young musicians of the Simon Bolivar Orchestra in Venezuela in courses lasting several weeks.

In addition to performing the classical string quartet oeuvre, the ADAMAS Quartet, which was founded in 2003, is also committed to restoring the recognition lost to composers whose work was ostracized as "degenerate" by the National Socialist regime from 1930 onwards. In collaboration with EXILArte, the four musicians are always on the lookout for undiscovered compositions from that period. The quartet dedicated their second CD, released by Gramola in the fall of 2016, exclusively to such composers.

The four musicians are also involved in projects that combine classical music with other art forms. For example, in collaboration with the Max Reinhardt Seminar at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, they created "Talk Haydn", an entertaining performance with a quartet of actors in which the rhetoric in music was examined. On behalf of Jeunesse, the ADAMAS Quartet developed the music education program "4×1=1 - Vom Zauber des Streichquartetts" together with director and actress Ulla Pilz, in which the narrator orders a string quartet from "Kammerzon" and then, together with a young audience, learns a lot about "living, arguing and loving" in everyday string quartet life.

​"The four musicians know how to interpret meticulously and differentiatedly from a uniform sound. Their focus is on the musical gestures, the contexts and moods, which they communicate audibly at every moment and so interwoven that one is actually convinced that an artist with eight arms is performing here. The musicians do not shy away from extremes and are willing to take the risk of a very individual form of expression, which is analytically penetrated and even in the darkest passages musically ravishingly beautiful and thus truly convincing."
Christiane Franke, Klassik Magazin.com 2017