Marianne Muller

Viola da gamba player Marianne Muller is active as a soloist and as a player in ensembles, several of which she has created. Muller has performed with leading early music ensembles, including Les Arts Florissants and Hespèrion XXI. She helped form the ensemble Spirale in 2005 and devoted herself to the exploration of the repertory for bass viola da gamba. Another Muller creation was the duo Les inAttendus, which she co-founded in 2016 with accordionist Vincent Lhermet. Muller is a supporter of contemporary music and has given world premieres of works by Bruno Gillet and Thierry Tidrow. Muller is an important educator who has trained many members of the younger generation of French historical performance specialists. Her solo recordings include Suites en Ré by Abel, Telemann, and Bach. In 2021, Les inAttendus released a recording of Bach's The Art of Fugue with flutist Alice Piérot.