Baritone Jonas Müller has been a member of the International Opera Studio of Oper Frankfurt since the 2025/26 season. In September 2025, he made his house and role debut there as Guglielmo in a new production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte, conducted by General Music Director Thomas Guggeis.
In 2024, he made his debut at the festival Winter in Schwetzingen, where he sang the title role in J. S. Kusser’s opera Adonis. With the Kammeroper München, he appeared in 2022 as Count Almaviva in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro and, in the same year, performed as Lubano in Der Stein der Weisen with the Hofkapelle München. A recording of this predecessor to The Magic Flute was released in summer 2024 by Sony Classics.
As a sought-after concert singer, Jonas has collaborated with renowned orchestras such as the Gewandhausorchester and the WDR Radio Orchestra. He has worked with conductors including Christoph Poppen, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Hansjörg Albrecht, and Thomaskantor Andreas Reize. With various solo parts from the great oratorio repertoire, he has appeared in the Philharmonies of Berlin, Cologne, and Munich, in the Herkulessaal, the Hong Kong City Hall, the Pavarotti-Freni Theatre in Modena, and the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg.
In 2025, Jonas received the Music Prize of German Industry. The subsequent prizewinners’ tour will take him to the Beethovenfest Bonn, the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele, the Heidelberger Frühling, and the Lucerne Festival.
Together with pianist Anna Gebhardt, he was awarded a prize at the 2024 International Competition for Art Song of the International Hugo Wolf Academy. A close artistic collaboration also connects him with pianist Gerold Huber, with whom he recently appeared at the Danish festivals Hindsgavl and HICSUM, as well as in Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal. Together with the internationally renowned guitar duo Tomasi–Musso, Jonas developed an extraordinary version of Schubert’s Winterreise. The recording of this project was released in autumn 2025 by Oehms Classics.
Born in Deggendorf in 1999, Jonas received extensive training in classical piano at the music-oriented St. Gotthard-Gymnasium Niederalteich, where he and founded the chamber music and song festival Ohefest in 2024. From 2017 onwards he has been studying at the music universities of Würzburg and Munich with Prof. Daniela Sindram, Prof. Lars Woldt and KS Prof. Christiane Iven. He received important artistic impulses in masterclasses with Brigitte Fassbaender, Thomas Hampson, Christoph Prégardien, and Ian Bostridge. From 2022 to 2024, he also attended the Lied class of Prof. Christian Gerhaher.
Jonas Müller is the recipient of numerous prizes and scholarships, among them the Louis Spohr Competition and the Dan-Canto Prize. In 2022/23, together with his duo partner Anna Gebhardt, he won the Music Prize of the Kulturkreis Gasteig in the Lied Duo category. In the 2025/26 season, he is a scholarship holder of #MusikerZukunft, a program of the German Orchestra Foundation.
