The British/German tenor, Rufus Müller, has established a distinguished reputation for opera and oratorio throughout Europe, Scandinavia, Japan and in North America. 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 in Magic Flute (Garsington Opera) Lucano in 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 in Alcina with Paul Goodwin and the Academy of Ancient Music in Montreux and Poissy, and Soliman in Zaide with Ivor Bolton and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in London.

Other recordings include Bach's St John Passion and Bach Cantatas with John Elliot Gardiner for DG Archiv, Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and Beethoven's Choral Fantasia with Roger Norrington for EMI, Dowland's First Book of Airs with lutenist Christopher Wilson for 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 Admiralitätsmusik on CPO, Telemann solo cantatas on Capriccio, Ned Rorem's Evidence of Things Not Seen with the New York Festival of Song on New World Records, and songs by Franz Lachner with Christoph Hammer on Oehms Classics.

Rufus Müller is much in demand for his interpretation of the Evangelist in Bach's Passions, and recent performances include Lucerne, Munich, Toronto, Calgary, New York, London, Birmingham, Göteborg, Dortmund and at the Killaloe Festival in Ireland and the Berkshire Choral Festival in the USA. 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.