Anne-Sophie Mutter is a musical phenomenon: for five decades the virtuoso has now been a fixture in all the world’s major concert halls, making her mark on the classical music scene as a soloist, mentor and visionary. The four-time Grammy® Award winner is equally committed to the performance of traditional composers as to the future of music.
So far she has given world premieres of 34 works – Thomas Adès, Unsuk Chin, Sebastian Currier, Aftab Darvishi, Henri Dutilleux, Sofia Gubaidulina, Witold Lutoslawski, Norbert Moret, Krzysztof Penderecki, Sir André Previn, Wolfgang Rihm, Jörg Widmann and John Williams have all composed for Anne-Sophie Mutter. Anne-Sophie Mutter dedicates herself to supporting tomorrow’s musical elite and numerous benefit projects. Since January 2022 she joins the foundation board of the Lucerne Festival. In the autumn of 1997 she founded the Association of Friends of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation e.V., to which the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation was added in 2008. These two charitable institutions provide support for the scholarship recipients, support which is tailored to the fellows’ individual needs. Since 2011, Anne-Sophie Mutter has regularly shared the spotlight on stage with her ensemble of fellows, Mutter’s Virtuosi.
In the season 2026/2027 - the season of her 50th anniversary on stage in Lucerne and Salzburg – she once again reflects her musical versatility and her unrivalled standing in the world of classical music with performances in Europe, Far East and North America.
In collaboration with Alpha Classics, she is releasing a series of works written for her under the name ASM Forte Forward, which she has not yet recorded. The first album in the series, East Meets West, was released on 27 March 2026 and features works by Darvishi, Chin, Adès and Widmann, the second album „American Tunes #1“ is released on August 21st 2026 with works by Previn and Currier.Deutsche Grammophon is honouring her anniversary with a comprehensive catalogue initiative spanning 40 years of collaboration.
The 2026/2027 seasons starts with an anniversary residency at the Lucerne Festival. The anniversary celebrations will begin with an artist talk in Meggen, the place where she made her debut in 1976. This will be followed by two concerts: Anne-Sophie Mutter will conduct the Lucerne Festival Orchestra from her violin, performing the Swiss premiere of ‘Likoo’ by Aftab Darvishi, André Previn’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with two Cembalo interludes and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Violin Concertos No. 1 and No. 5. Krzysztof Penderecki's Second Violin Concerto ‘Metamorphosen’, another central work in her oeuvre, is also on the programme. Together with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and under the baton of Manfred Honeck, this multi-layered work, written especially for her by the composer, will be performed as the third part of her stage anniversary in Lucerne.
In October 2026, Anne-Sophie Mutter dedicates one of her two Zurich concerts with the Philharmonia Zürich and Lina González-Granados to Amiamusica, an association supporting premature and seriously ill newborns and their families. The programme features Ludwig van Beethoven’s Violin Concerto
The anniversary season also includes performances in Asia: in November, she embarks on an extensive tour of China with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Vasily Petrenko, performing the violin concertos of Beethoven and Mendelssohn.
Concerts in Beijing and Tokyo follow in January 2027, where she will play the local premieres of John Williams’ Violin Concerto No. 2 alongside a selection of the composer’s celebrated film themes.
During the 2026/2027 season, Anne-Sophie Mutter is the featured Focus Artist at the Vienna Musikverein. As part of this residency, she appears in a chamber music programme with Beatrice Rana, Kian Soltani and Roman Patkoló, performing works by André Previn, Sebastian Currier, Clara Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. She also performs Krzysztof Penderecki’s violin concerto „Metamorphosen“, written especially for her, with the Vienna Philharmonic under Claudio Vandelli, and joins the Chamber Orchestra Vienna-Berlin in a programme featuring works by Aftab Darvishi, André Previn and Wolfgang A. Mozart, directing the ensemble from the violin.
This programme also tours Europe in May 2027 and includes Anne-Sophie Mutter’s anniversary concert in Salzburg. She made her Salzburg debut under Herbert von Karajan at the Whitsun Festival in 1977.
In February 2027, Anne-Sophie Mutter joins Lahav Shani on his inaugural tour with the Munich Philharmonic, performing Brahms’ Violin Concerto in cities across Europe and North America.
In April 2027, she gives the world premiere of the Triple Concerto by the Iranian composer Golfam Khayam. Together with violist Muriel Razavi, a scholarship recipient of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation, and cellist Kian Soltani, a former scholarship recipient, she premieres this commissioned work with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra under Fabio Luisi.
In May 2027, Anne-Sophie Mutter brings the Triple Concerto to Europe for its European premiere. Joined once again by Muriel Razavi, Kian Soltani, Fabio Luisi and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, she performs the work in Copenhagen and on tour in several other European cities.
In September 2025, Anne-Sophie Mutter received the Enescu Festival Award for Excellence in Bucharest and the Wolfgang Schüssel Prize in Salzburg. In February 2025, Anne-Sophie Mutter was honoured with the Grand Staufer Medal in Gold by Baden-Württemberg's Minister President Winfried Kretschmann. In 2023, the violinist received the Ruhr Piano Festival Prize, and the Royal Philharmonic Society awarded her its Gold Medal. The Krzysztof Penderecki Music Academy in Cracow bestowed an honorary doctorate on her in 2022. In 2019, Anne-Sophie Mutter was honoured to receive the Praemium Imperiale in the music category; she received the 2019 Polar Music Prize. Poland awarded the Gloria Artis Gold Medal for Cultural Achievements to Anne-Sophie Mutter in 2018, making her the first German artist to receive such an honour. In 2018 the violinist was named an honorary member of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. In 2017 Romania awarded the Order of Cultural Merit in the rank of a Grand Officer to Anne-Sophie Mutter and France honoured her by presenting her with the insignia of a Commander of the French Order of the Arts and Literature. In 2016 the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports awarded her the “Medalla de oro al Mérito en las Bellas Artes” (Gold Medal for Merits in the Fine Arts). In 2015, Anne-Sophie Mutter was named an Honorary Fellow of Keble College at the University of Oxford. In 2013 she became a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, after winning the medal of the Lutosławski Society (Warsaw) in January. In 2012 the Atlantic Council bestowed the Distinguished Artistic Leadership Award upon her. In 2011 she received the Brahms Prize as well as the Erich Fromm Prize and the Gustav Adolf Prize for her social activism. In 2010 the Technical-Scientific University of Norway in Trondheim bestowed an honorary doctorate upon her; in 2009 she won the European St. Ulrich Award as well as the Cristobal Gabarron Award. In 2008 Anne-Sophie Mutter was the recipient of the International Ernst von Siemens Music Prize as well as the Leipzig Mendelssohn Prize.
The violinist has been awarded the German Grand Order of Merit, the French Medal of the Legion of Honour, the Bavarian Order of Merit, the Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria, and numerous other honours.
As of July 2026
