Petra Müllejans

Petra Müllejans (* 1959 in Dusseldorf ) is a German violinist, conductor and pedagogue, known mainly from the field of historical performance practice.

Life and work

Petra Müllejans received her first violin lessons at the age of eight at the music school sea bush. Also in Meerbusch She matriculated at the age of 17 years. At age 12, she was accepted as a junior student at the Düsseldorf Academy of Music and continued her studies there after graduation as a full student continued. An important pioneer in Dusseldorf her was the violin teacher, musicologist and Bach researcher Helga Thoene. At age 21, she moved to Rainer Kussmaul at the Academy of Music in Freiburg; Viola lessons they had during her professor's brother, Jürgen Kussmaul. The brothers Kussmaul, as well as their teacher Düsseldorf, their paved next to the modern violin and the way to early music and baroque violin. Studies with Nikolaus Harnoncourt in Salzburg supplemented this training.

Petra Müllejans is Professor of Baroque Violin at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and at the Musikhochschule in Frankfurt am Main.

As a versatile musician Petra Müllejans occurs in addition to music of the 17th and 18th century, with her group " Hot and Cool " on at concerts and CD recordings of klezmer, tango, Czardas and jazz music.

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Together with university friends, she was a co-founder of the authoritative 1987 Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, whose musical director shared with Gottfried von der Goltz. She also appears as soloist and chamber musician, among other things with the " Freiburg Baroque Consort " in appearance.