Anne-Sophie Mutter

At 61 years old, Anne-Sophie Mutter has this physical status:

Mutter's playing began to receive attention and she stopped attending school to devote herself full-time to music. Conductor Herbert von Karajan arranged for her to play with the Berlin Philharmonic. Only 13 years old at the time, she made her public debut on stage in 1976 at the Lucerne Festival, where she played Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major. In 1977, she performed at the Salzburg Festival and with the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Critics praised the level of maturity in Mutter's performance, with one reviewer of Die Welt writing, "“She played it ravishingly, and above all, she did not play it at all like a child prodigy. Her technique is fully mature.” At 15, Mutter made her first recording of the Mozart Third and Fifth violin concerti with Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic.

In 1980, Mutter made her American debut with the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta. In 1985, at the age of 22, she was made an honorary fellow of the Royal Academy of Music (London) and head of its faculty of international violin studies and in 1986 an honorary member. In 1988, she made a grand tour of Canada and the United States, playing for the first time at Carnegie Hall. In 1998 she played and recorded for CD and DVD the complete set of Beethoven's Violin Sonatas, accompanied by Lambert Orkis; these were broadcast on television in many countries.

In October 2006, on French television, Mutter appeared to indicate that she would be retiring when she turned 45, in 2008. However the following month she said that her words were "misinterpreted" and that she would continue to play as long as she felt she could "bring anything new, anything important, anything different to music".

Source

• Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance:
  • Anne-Sophie Mutter and Lambert Orkis for Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas (Nos. 1–3, Op. 12; Nos. 1–3, Op. 30; "Spring" Sonata) (2000)
• Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra):
  • Anne-Sophie Mutter and André Previn (conductor) for Previn: Violin Concerto "Anne-Sophie"/Bernstein: Serenade (2005)
  • Anne-Sophie Mutter, Krzysztof Penderecki (conductor) and the London Symphony Orchestra for Penderecki: Violin Concerto No. 2, Metamorphosen (1999)
  • Anne-Sophie Mutter, James Levine (conductor) and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Berg: Violin Concerto/Rihm: Time Chant (1994)
• Naming of Anne-Sophie-Mutter-Weg in Wehr, Baden-Württemberg (Eng: Anne-Sophie Mutter way) (27 August 1988)
• Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg (1999)
• Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art (1999)
• Sonning Award (2001; Denmark)
• Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (2002)
• Herbert von Karajan Music Prize (Baden-Baden, 2003)
• Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2005)
• Victoires de la Musique Classique (2006)
• Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (2007)
• Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (2008)
• Mendelssohn Prize (Music category) (Leipzig, 2008)
• Merit Cross 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany (Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse) (2009)
• Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur (France, 2009) for her commitment to the works of contemporary music by French
• Echo Klassik as Instrumentalist (2009)
• European St. Ulrichs Prize (July 2009)
• Doctor Honoris Causa from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (2010)
• Prize of the Cultural Foundation of Dortmund
• Brahms Prize (Brahms Society of Schleswig-Holstein, 2011)
• Atlantic Council Distinguished Artistic Leadership Award (2012)
• Bavarian Order of Merit
• Cultural Honour of the City of Munich
• Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music
• Erich Fromm Prize for her comprehensive social work (2011)
• Gustav Adolf Prize of Gustav-Adolf-Werk of the Evangelical Church in Hesse-Nassau for her socially diaconal commitment
• The Medal of the Lutosławski Centennial (25 January 2013)
• Named a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (April 2013)
• Echo Klassik 2014 for the album 'Dvořák'
• Named an Honorary Fellow of Keble College, Oxford
• 11th Yehudi Menuhin Prize from the Foundation Albeniz (2016)
• Medalla de Oro al Merito en las bellas Artes (2016)
• Romanian Cultural Order of Merit with the rank of Grand Officer (2017)
• Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis (2018)
• Polar Music Prize (2019)
• Berliner Bär (BZ-Cultural Prize) (2019)
• Praemium Imperiale (2019)
• Cultural Award of Baden-Württemberg (2020)
• Opus Klassik, Category Instrumentalist (Violin) for Across the Stars (2020)
• Honorary Degree Of Doctor Honoris Causa from the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków (2022)