Thomas Müller-Pering was born in 1958 in Cologne and got his first guitar lessons in the age of 12. From 1975 to 1980 he studied at the University of Music in Aachen. His teacher was Prof. Tadashi Sasaki. According to that he visited several master classes with John Williams, José Tomas, Oscar Ghiglia, Siegfried Behrend and others. Numerous awards and prizes, like in 1982 in Munich at the ARD-Competition and in 1983 at the "Concurso internacionnal de ejecución musical" in Vine del Mar, Chile, where he received the first prize, followed.

Beside his work as teacher at the University of Music in Aachen – since 1980 he leads his own class there – he gives master classes in Germany and foreign countries. In 1997 Thomas Müller-Pering got a professorship at the University of Music "Franz Liszt" in Weimar.

Since 1978 his concert tours regularly lead him to the different countries of Europe, North-, South-America, Cuba and North-Africa. In Japan he published two CDs and in 1988 as one of the first guitar players he recorded a 60 minute long video-recital. Beside solo performances and publications he is a dedicated chamber musician. He worked together with Rebecca Montoya, Bettina Löns, Wally Hase and Michael Faust (flute), Gorjan Kosuta (violin), Ansgar Buchholz (vibraphone & marimba), Caterina Lichtenberg (mandolin) and played in the "Albéniz-Guitar-Duo" with Burkhard Wolk. In 1991 Thomas Müller-Pering played together with Manuel Barrueco working on his recording of "Danzas Espanolas’ " by Enrique Granados for EMI. Since 1999 Thomas Müller-Pering is lecturer of the "Rotenburger Gitarrenwoche".