{"id":18054,"date":"2025-09-15T20:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/washingtonconservatory.org\/?post_type=bio&#038;p=18054"},"modified":"2025-09-15T20:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:51:10","slug":"jan-mueller-szeraws","status":"publish","type":"bio","link":"https:\/\/washingtonconservatory.org\/bio\/jan-mueller-szeraws\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan Mueller-Szeraws"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cellist Jan M\u00fcller-Szeraws has pursued music\u2019s power to connect across cultures from his native Chile to Europe and the U.S. He has been featured at festivals such as Rockport, El Paso Pro-Musica, Cape &amp; Islands, Staunton, Sebago Long Lake, and Apple Hill, among many others. As soloist, he has premiered and recorded Bernard Hoffer\u2019s Concerto di Camera II with Boston Musica Viva, performed Shirish Korde\u2019s Lalit 2nd Prism with the Richmond Symphony, and given premieres of concertos by Gunther Schuller, John Harbison, and Chou Wen-Chung. He has also performed major works by Schumann, Bloch, Haydn, Shostakovich, Brahms, Dvo\u0159\u00e1k, and Tchaikovsky with orchestras in the U.S., Chile, and Russia. M\u00fcller-Szeraws has served as artist-inresidence at the Jornadas Musicales Internacionales de Invierno in Chile, taught widely, and is currently on faculty at Phillips Academy Andover. 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