Anne Sophie Mutter

Anne-Sophie Mutter is a musical phenomenon and virtuoso who, for more than 40 years, has been a fixture in all the world’s major concert halls, making her mark in classical music as a soloist, mentor and visionary.

Since her recital debut at the 1976 Lucerne Festival and solo debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Herbert von Karajan at the 1977 Salzburg Whitsun Festival, Ms. Mutter has frequently performed with the world’s greatest orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, Boston Symphony, Gewandhaus Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, London Symphony Orchestra, and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and has collaborated with the most prominent composers and musicians of our time.
Ms. Mutter is as equally committed to the great canonical works as to the future of music, and has given the world premieres of 26 works, many written for her, by composers including Unsuk Chin, Sebastian Currier, Henri Dutilleux, Sofia Gubaidulina, Witold Lutoslawski, Norbert Moret, Krzysztof Penderecki, Sir André Previn, Wolfgang Rihm and John Williams.

Ms. Mutter’s 2018/2019 season includes a six-city tour of China in October 2018 with the Sinfonia Varsovia featuring works by Krzysztof Penderecki on the occasion of his 85th birthday. In November 2018, Ms. Mutter returns to the Staakskapelle Berlin with the German premiere of Williams’ Markings for Solo Violin, Strings, and Harp for the Deutsche Grammophon‘s 120th Anniversary Jubilee Concert conducted by Manfred Honeck, followed by appearances with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Edinburgh and Glasgow performing Penderecki’s “Metamorphosen” with the conductor on the podium.

In March 2019, Ms. Mutter returns to North America for a five-city tour of the U.S. and Canada featuring the world premiere of Currier’s Piano Trio at Carnegie Hall on March 12. Ms. Mutter then embarks on an extensive tour performing Mozart’s Violin Concertos with the Chamber Orchestra Vienna-Berlin—consisting of members of the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Wiener Philharmoniker—in May and June 2019 with performances throughout Germany, Austria, Spain, Greece, and the U.S.

Dedicated to fostering the careers of emerging musicians, Ms. Mutter founded the “Association of Friends of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation e.V.” in 1997, to which the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation was added in 2008. Since 2011, she has regularly shared the spotlight on stage with the foundation’s exclusive ensemble of fellows, The Mutter Virtuosi. She has featured them in recordings, including Vivaldi’s Four Seasons,andSchubert’s “Trout” Quintet with Daniil Trifonov.

The four-time Grammy® Award winner released an all-Penderecki album in August 2018 titled Hommage à Penderecki, which included the world premiere recording of the composer’s Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano. The album marks the culmination of Ms. Mutter’s season-wide celebration of Penderecki’s 85th birthday in 2018, which has included recitals across U.S. and Europe, performed with the London Philharmonic, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, and at Carnegie Hall.

Ms. Mutter has received international awards and honors, including the Polish Gold Medal for Merit to Culture, the Bavarian State Foundation Culture Prize, the Romanian Order of Cultural Merit in the rank of Grand Officer, the insignia of a Commander of the French Order of Arts and Literature, the Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum for her services to music education and young artists, the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, and the German Grand Order of Merit, among numerous others.