Anne-Sophie Mutter, a talented German violinist, embarked on her remarkable career at the age of 13. Since then, she has mesmerized audiences around the globe and released more than 50 albums.
To commemorate her birthday, the STAGE+ platform will live-stream Mutter's upcoming performance with Mutter's Virtuosi at the Vienna Musikverein. The platform will also offer a diverse range of on-demand content, including videos highlighting her collaborations with her mentor Herbert von Karajan in the early 1980s and her recent joint projects with film composer John Williams.
In a recent development, Mutter contributed to the soundtrack of the new movie "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny," performing a piece called "Helena's Theme," which was specially composed for her by John Williams.
Renowned for her support of contemporary music, Mutter has premiered 31 works dedicated to her by esteemed composers such as John Williams, Thomas Adès, Unsuk Chin, Sebastian Currier, Henri Dutilleux, Sofia Gubaidulina, Witold Lutoslawski, and Sir André Previn.
Through her foundation, she has provided scholarships for numerous emerging artists and played a crucial role in launching the careers of Daniel Müller-Schott, Sergey Khachatryan, Roman Patkoló, Leonard Elschenbroich, and VC Artist Kian Soltani, among others.
Born in 1963 in Rheinfelden, a German border town, Mutter began her musical journey by learning piano at the age of five. She received her first violin lessons from Erna Honigberger, who had studied under the renowned pedagogue Carl Flesch. At the age of nine, Mutter became a student of Aïda Stucki, a prominent Swiss violinist.
In 1976, Mutter's career skyrocketed when she was just 13 years old. Herbert von Karajan, the principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, heard her perform at the Lucerne Festival and was immensely impressed. As a result, von Karajan invited her to make her concerto debut with the Berlin Philharmonic at the 1977 Salzburg Whitsun Festival.
In 1978, Mutter recorded her first album with the Berlin Philharmonic for Deutsche Grammophon, featuring Mozart's Violin Concertos Nos. 3 and 5. She went on to record Beethoven, Brahms, Bruch, and Mendelssohn's violin concertos with the orchestra for the Yellow Label.
After a hiatus of 30 years, Mutter and the Berlin Philharmonic reunited in 2013 to create their first studio album together, which marked Mutter's initial recording of the Dvořák Violin Concerto.
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Mutter made highly acclaimed debuts in Berlin, Washington, New York, Tokyo, and Moscow, establishing herself as a prominent figure in the world's major concert halls.
As an educator, Mutter was appointed as the International Chair in Violin Studies at London's Royal Academy of Music in 1986. A year later, she founded the Rudolf Eberle Trust, which aimed to support gifted young string players across Europe. In 1997, the program expanded globally.
In the fall of 1997, Mutter established the "Association of Friends of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation e.V.," which later led to the creation of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation in 2008.
In 2011, Mutter formed Mutter's Virtuosi, an ensemble comprising former and current scholarship holders of the ASM Foundation, as well as other talented musicians. The students of Mutter's Virtuosi
