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Anne-Sophie Mutter
Anne-Sophie Mutter was born in Rheinfelden in Baden. Her international career began in 1977 when she appeared as a soloist with Herbert von Karajan at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival. Her Berlin debut - again with Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic - followed a year later. Since then "the greatest musical prodigy since the young Menuhin" - as Karajan called her - has scored triumph upon triumph in all the world's leading concert halls.
Equally in demand as a soloist and as a chamber musician, Anne-Sophie Mutter regularly performs in Europe, the USA, Canada and Japan. She made her Russian debut in 1985; in 1988 she undertook an extended recital tour of Canada and the USA. The Anne-Sophie Mutter Festival - a unique event staged in London and Stuttgart in 1990 - demonstrated her artistry in a repertory that extended from the Baroque to the avant-garde. Anne-Sophie Mutter also performs regularly at the Salzburg Festival and other international events.
For some time now Anne-Sophie Mutter has given increasing prominence to works by contemporary composers: works by Witold Lutoslawski, Norbert Moret, Krzysztof Penderecki and Wolfgang Rihm have a firm place in her repertory. In 1992 she appeared in Germany, then in the USA at the Ravinia and Tanglewood Festivals and at New York's Mostly Mozart Festival and gave the world première of Wolfgang Rihm's Gesungene Zeit ("Time Chant"), which was written specially for her. For the year 2000, the violinist is planning her own festival which will be dedicated to violin music of the last century and take place in New York, London, Frankfurt, and Stuttgart. In 1995, Anne-Sophie Mutter gave the world premiere performance of Penderecki's Second Violin Concerto, dedicated to her by the composer, in Leipzig. Her recording of this piece won 2 Grammy Awards.
In 1998 Anne-Sophie Mutter devoted herself exclusively to Beethoven's Sonatas for Piano and Violin which she performed all over the world with Lambert Orkis, and which were recorded by Deutsche Grammophon.
In 1985/86 the Royal Academy of Music in London appointed Anne-Sophie Mutter an honorary fellow and head of its faculty of international violin studies. In 1979, at the age of 16, she was named "Artist of the Year" and received the prestigious DEUTSCHER SCHALLPLATTENPREIS, an award which she received for a second time in 1991. In 1983 she became honorary president of the Mozart Society of Oxford University and in 1987 was awarded the Order of the Republic of Germany (1st class). In 1996 she was made an honorary member of the Beethoven Society in Bonn.
Anne-Sophie Mutter regularly gives charity concerts to support such causes as "Artists against Aids" in the USA, a hospital in Munich for children with cancer, the rebuilding of Beethoven's birthplace in Bonn, and Munich's gallery of modern art, the "Pinakothek der Moderne". Ever since its foundation in 1987, Anne-Sophie Mutter has supported the Rudolf Eberle Foundation whose aim is to support young and talented European violinists.
Equally in demand as a soloist and as a chamber musician, Anne-Sophie Mutter regularly performs in Europe, the USA, Canada and Japan. She made her Russian debut in 1985; in 1988 she undertook an extended recital tour of Canada and the USA. The Anne-Sophie Mutter Festival - a unique event staged in London and Stuttgart in 1990 - demonstrated her artistry in a repertory that extended from the Baroque to the avant-garde. Anne-Sophie Mutter also performs regularly at the Salzburg Festival and other international events.
For some time now Anne-Sophie Mutter has given increasing prominence to works by contemporary composers: works by Witold Lutoslawski, Norbert Moret, Krzysztof Penderecki and Wolfgang Rihm have a firm place in her repertory. In 1992 she appeared in Germany, then in the USA at the Ravinia and Tanglewood Festivals and at New York's Mostly Mozart Festival and gave the world première of Wolfgang Rihm's Gesungene Zeit ("Time Chant"), which was written specially for her. For the year 2000, the violinist is planning her own festival which will be dedicated to violin music of the last century and take place in New York, London, Frankfurt, and Stuttgart. In 1995, Anne-Sophie Mutter gave the world premiere performance of Penderecki's Second Violin Concerto, dedicated to her by the composer, in Leipzig. Her recording of this piece won 2 Grammy Awards.
In 1998 Anne-Sophie Mutter devoted herself exclusively to Beethoven's Sonatas for Piano and Violin which she performed all over the world with Lambert Orkis, and which were recorded by Deutsche Grammophon.
In 1985/86 the Royal Academy of Music in London appointed Anne-Sophie Mutter an honorary fellow and head of its faculty of international violin studies. In 1979, at the age of 16, she was named "Artist of the Year" and received the prestigious DEUTSCHER SCHALLPLATTENPREIS, an award which she received for a second time in 1991. In 1983 she became honorary president of the Mozart Society of Oxford University and in 1987 was awarded the Order of the Republic of Germany (1st class). In 1996 she was made an honorary member of the Beethoven Society in Bonn.
Anne-Sophie Mutter regularly gives charity concerts to support such causes as "Artists against Aids" in the USA, a hospital in Munich for children with cancer, the rebuilding of Beethoven's birthplace in Bonn, and Munich's gallery of modern art, the "Pinakothek der Moderne". Ever since its foundation in 1987, Anne-Sophie Mutter has supported the Rudolf Eberle Foundation whose aim is to support young and talented European violinists.
