News - Anne-Sophie Mutter (EN)

Starting May 30, 2018

12 Apr 2018 – Recitals in Luxembourg and Germany with Lambert Orkis follow in May and June. Their programme includes Previn’s new work The Fifth Season, Penderecki’s Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2, commissioned by her, as well as his Duo concertante per violino e contrabbasso, a work commissioned... Read more

London and Berlin

Penderecki Violin Concerto No. 2

10 Apr 2018 – The Violin Concerto No. 2 “Metamorphoses”, which Penderecki dedicated to Anne-Sophie Mutter, will be performed both with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Lukasz Borowicz (London, May 2nd) and with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin. In the German capital, the composer will cond... Read more

Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis

Poland honours Anne-Sophie Mutter

19 Mar 2018 – Anne-Sophie Mutter received the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis from Poland's Deputy PM and Culture Minister Piotr Glinski. The ceremony was held at the Polish Culture Ministry's seat in Warsaw on March 18. Read more

Starting March 12, 2018

Concerts in Poland

1 Mar 2018 – Further recitals with Penderecki’s works follow in the composer’s homeland, also featuring the Scherzo from the romantic F-A-E Sonata by Brahms and Bach’s Partita in D-minor. Once again, Mutter’s partner at the piano is Lambert Orkis. Their joint recording of Beethoven’s sonatas for pia... Read more

Starting March 2, 2018

Recitals in the USA

22 Jan 2018 – Throughout the year, the violin works by Krzysztof Penderecki form a great thematic focus, commemorating the composer’s 85th birthday in 2018 and the many years of friendship between him and Anne-Sophie Mutter. Recitals in the USA launch the Penderecki retrospective, while also taking ... Read more

Starting January 18, 2018

Beethoven Violin Concerto

22 Dec 2017 – Anne-Sophie Mutter begins the new year of 2018 with Beethoven’s Violin Concerto: the tour with the Orchestre dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Sir Antonio Pappano’s baton takes her to Italy and Germany. This outstanding work of violin literature was recorded by Anne-Sophi... Read more

France and Romania

High Honours for Anne-Sophie Mutter

11 Nov 2017 – On November 10, Anne-Sophie Mutter received two high honours in Berlin: at the French Embassy, she was presented with the insignia of a Commander of the French Order of Arts and Literature; furthermore, the Romanian Ambassador presented the violinist with the Order of Cultural Merit in... Read more

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Anne-Sophie Mutter’s new website

3 Nov 2017 – Accompanying the release of her latest album “Franz Schubert: Trout quintet”, Anne-Sophie Mutter’s website relaunches in a new look. The website was designed by Wiesbaden-based design studio Immerwieder Design, which has been working for the Anne-Sophie Mutter foundation for several ye... Read more

Easy-going levity

Chamber music is at once the most personal and the most emotional music of all - says Anne-Sophie Mutter. “Take the late Beethoven quartets or Schubert’s chamber music from his final years – the trios or the C major Fantasy. The greatest works of music history were written for chamber ensemble. But ... Read more

Starting November 12, 2017

Mutter & Orkis on tour

30 Oct 2017 – With her recital tour in November 2017, which takes her to four German cities and to Barcelona, Anne-Sophie Mutter commences her programmatic focus of 2018. Honouring the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, who celebrates his 85th birthday this coming year and who has been her friend... Read more

Piano- and string trios

Beethoven – Previn – Shostakovich

28 Oct 2017 – On November 11, the violinist performs once again with former and current fellows of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation: at the Konzerthaus Berlin, André Previn’s Piano Trio, Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Trio in C-Minor Op. 9 No. 3 and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E-Minor ... Read more

From 3 to 5 November

International Kurt Masur Institute

15 Oct 2017 –The home of the foundation known as the International Kurt Masur Institute (IKMI) is to be officially opened at the Mendelssohn House in Leipzig with a major gala weekend from 3 to 5 November 2017. A wide-ranging programme of events has been organised. Prominent friends, colleagues, int... Read more