HONOURS
Honour in Salzburg
Awarded the Wolfgang Schüssel Prize
On September 19, 2025, Anne-Sophie Mutter was awarded the “Wolfgang Schüssel Prize 2025” by the International Salzburg Association (ISA). The laudatory speech for the prize winner was given by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. This was a very special and successful surprise for Anne-Sophie Mutter and the guests at the award ceremony.
Award ceremony in Bucharest
Enescu Festival Award for Excellence
September 18, 2025: “I am deeply honored to have received the very first „Enescu Festival Award for Excellence“ ever presented by the Enescu Festival. To be acknowledged in recognition of my almost 50-year journey in music in this way by such a prestigious and visionary institution is both humbling and profoundly moving. My heartfelt thanks to the Festival’s leadership and the jury for this exceptional honor”.
For outstanding social commitment
Honoured with the Grand Staufer Medal in Gold
Baden-Württemberg’s Minister President Winfried Kretschmann awarded Anne-Sophie Mutter the Grand Staufer Medal in Gold in Stuttgart on Tuesday, 11 February 2025. In his laudatory speech, the Minister President honoured Mutter’s global career as a violinist and her outstanding social commitment, particularly in the promotion of young musical talent.
Krzysztof-Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakau 2022
Honorary Degree of Doctor Honoris Causa.
It is the second honorary doctorate for Anne-Sophie Mutter: after Trondheim’s Technical University awarded her an honorary degree in 2010, the Krzysztof Penderecki Music Academy in Cracow distinguished her with a Doctor honoris causa on March 30, 2022, the “highest honour our university has to bestow”, as the Rector of the Krzysztof Penderecki Music Academy in Cracow, Professor Dr. hab. Wojciech Widlak, pointed out in his speech.
Keble College 2015
Honorary Fellowship.
On November 24, 2015, Anne-Sophie Mutter celebrated her admission into the college community as an Honorary Fellow. Keble College of the University of Oxford had chosen her in recognition of her “outstanding achievements in the world of music both as a performer and as a teacher.”
Winner 2008
Siemens Music Prize 2008
Anne-Sophie Mutter is this year’s recipient of the International Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, which comes with a cash endowment of 200,000 euros. The violinist is donating half of the prize money to the “Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation”, which was officially recognized by the German government on July 7, 2008.
