Neils Muus:

The Viennese conductor with Danish and American roots, Niels Muus is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, Denmark. He further his studied at the Conservatorio San Martino (Bologna), the Mozarteum (Salzburg), the Ecole Normale de Musique (Paris), as well as with maestri Franco Ferrara, Carlo Zecchi, Tatjana Nikolajewna and Jakob Gimpel.

Between 1992 and 1999, Niels Muus was a principal conductor at the Tiroler Landestheater, Innsbruck, and between 1999 and 2003, conductor and casting director at the Volksoper Wien. Recognized as an expert in the field of opera, Niels Muus has conducted some major productions worldwide. Among others, notable was a televised production by RAI of Donizetti's "L'Elisir d'amore" from the Macerata Opera Festival (ARTHAUS MUSIK), Rossini`s "L`Assedio di Corinto" for the Culture Olympics in Greece, Dvorak's "Rusalka" for the international H.C. Andersen Year in Moscow and Denmark and Verdi`s "Aida" at the Worker`s Stadium in Beijing (broadcasted by CCTV).

As a symphonic conductor, Niels Muus has given performances in concert halls such as Berliner Philharmonie, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Academia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Chicago Symphony Hall, National Arts Center Ottawa, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Tokyo Opera City, and Tivoli Copenhagen conducting orchestras such as MDR Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Symphoniker, Orchestra Arturo Toscanini, Korean Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Opera Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, and many others. 

Niels Muus is an internationally renowned pedagogue. He gave master classes with institutions such as Conservatorio Monteverdi (Bolzano), Netherlands Opera Studio (Amsterdam), Opera Studio New National Theater Tokyo, Opera Academy Korean National Opera, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, Opera Academy (San Francisco).

Currently Niels Muus is engaged as the artistic advisor for Mozarthaus Vienna and Otto Edelmann Society, and music director of Musikfestival Steyr, Austria. From September of 2013 is the newly appointed professor/director of the opera department of Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversitaet der Stadt.