He has worked with many leading conductors including Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Roger Norrington, Ivor Bolton, Richard Hickox, Nicholas McGegan, Gustav Leonhardt, Frans Brüggen, Trevor Pinnock, Philippe Herreweghe, Joshua Rifkin, Andrew Parrott, Nicholas Kraemer and Ivan Fischer. He has given recitals in the Wigmore Hall and the Barbican Concert Hall in London as well as on BBC Radio, and in Munich, Tokyo, Barcelona, Madrid, Utrecht, Paris, Salzburg and New York.

Operatic roles include Tamino (Garsington Opera) Lucano L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Houston Grand Opera), the title roles in Rameau’s Pygmalion and Lully’s Persée (Opera Atelier in Toronto), the title role in Monteverdi’s Orfeo (Opera Zuid in The Netherlands), Aminta in Peri’s Euridice (Opéra de Normandie), Alessandro in Handel’s Poro (Halle) and Lurcanio in Handel’s Ariodante in Göttingen with Nicholas McGegan released on a prize-winning disc by Harmonia Mundi USA. He has also sung Tersandre in Lully’s Roland with René Jacobs in Paris, Lisbon and Montpellier, Giuliano in Handel’s Rodrigo in Siena, Castor in Rameau’s Castor et Pollux in Magdeburg, Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria in Athens, Florence and Cremona, Oronte Alcina with Paul Goodwin and The Academy of Ancient Music in Montreux and Poissy, and Soliman Zaide with Ivor Bolton and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in London.

Recordings include Bach’s St John Passion and Bach cantatas with John Eliot Gardiner for DG Archiv, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasia with Roger Norrington (EMI), Dowland’s First Book of Airs with lutenist Christopher Wilson (ASV), Haydn’s O tuneful voice and songs by Benda with soprano Emma Kirkby and three recordings of 19th-century songs with Invocation, all for Hyperion, the Evangelist in Bach’s St Matthew Passion on the United recording of the acclaimed dramatic production by Jonathan Miller, shown on BBC TV, Telemann’s Admiralitäätsmusik (CPO), Telemann solo cantatas (Capriccio), and Ned Rorem’s Evidence of Things Not Seen with the New York Festival of Song (New World Records).

Rufus Müller is much in demand for his interpretation of the Evangelist in Bach’s passions, including recent performances in Lucerne, Munich, Toronto, Calgary, New York, London, Birmingham, Göteborg, Dortmund and at the Killaloe Festival in Ireland. His many performances of Messiah include his debut in Carnegie Hall in New York in 1998, a televised tour in Spain with Trevor Pinnock and the English Concert, as well as performances in Denmark, Norway, and with the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester. Numerous other concert engagements have included Bach cantatas with John Eliot Gardiner in London, works by Bach and Handel with the Philhamonia Baroque Orchestra and Nicholas McGegan in San Francisco, and a European tour of Casals El Pessebre with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. His recital engagements include Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin in Munich and Barcelona, a recital in conjunction with the Burne-Jones exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, a recital at the Mozart Festival in Salzburg, performances with the New York Festival of Song, and recitals with the pianist Maria João Pires in Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Japan and the UK.

Rufus Müller was born in Kent, England and was a choral scholar at New College, Oxford. He is at present studying in New York with Thomas LoMonaco. In 1985 he won first prize in the English Song Award in Brighton, and in 1999 he was a prize winner in the Oratorio Society of New York Singing Competition.