The Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation
Promoting the highly talented.
“Music is only touching when it tells a story. And I am on the track of upcoming story tellers,” says Anne-Sophie Mutter about the foundation she brought to life. Thanks to the support of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation, Daniel Müller-Schott, Roman Patkoló, Sergey Khachatryan and Arabella Steinbacher have also become great “story tellers”.
For highly talented solists
Support for young musicians.
Anne-Sophie Mutter is committed to supporting young, talented violin, viola, cello and contrabass soloists worldwide. For this purpose she established the “Freundeskreis der Anne-Sophie Mutter Stiftung e.V.” [Friends of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation] in 1997. The foundation of the same name with its head office in Munich could be established in 2008. These institutions provide scholarship recipients with assistance according to their individual needs.
Support the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation
Your support makes a difference.
Exceptionally talented young instrumentalists find it especially difficult today to get the support they need during the important first years of their budding careers.
The way to a Scholarship
This is how to become a scholar.
„Music moves one only when it tells a story. I am looking for budding storytellers!“ — Anne-Sophie Mutter
The Foundation’s String Orchestra
Mutter’s Virtuosi
For years, Anne-Sophie Mutter has been performing together with various scholarship students of her foundation – in order to familiarise them with the life of a professional musician and to introduce them to a broader audience.
The scholarship holders.
The scholarship students of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation are supported according to their individual needs – on which the benefactress spends a lot of time. This may, for example, include tuition with Anne-Sophie Mutter or support in the selection and arrangement of a suitable teacher as well as the provision of instruments, establishing contacts to the famous soloists and their master classes or the arrangement of auditions with conductors.
Award of the Foundation
The Aida Stucki Award
The Aida Stucki Award is named after the Swiss violinist and violin teacher of the same name. She was one of Professor Carl Flesch’s last students and, after her solo career, trained two generations of violinists at the Zurich University of Arts – anchoring Flesch’s epoch-making knowledge in the future.
Her most famous student is Anne-Sophie Mutter: “Aida Stucki is my guiding star in every respect – an incomparable violinist, a noble human being and a fantastic woman.”
