Anne-Sophie Mutter

Anne-Sophie Mutter, whose international career was launched in 1976 at Lucerne Festival, has been giving concerts in all of the leading music centers around the globe for 45 years and has left her mark on the classical music scene as a soloist, mentor, and visionary. At the age of 13, she made her debut in Lucerne as part of the “Young Artists” series; this was followed just one year later by her first concert in Salzburg with the Berlin Philharmonic under the baton of Herbert von Karajan. The four-time Grammy Award winner is as committed to performing traditional compositions as she is to the future of music: to date, she has premiered 28 works. She also devotes herself intensively to promoting the finest young musical talent. In the fall of 1997, she founded the Freundeskreis Anne-Sophie Mutter Stiftung e.V. (Friends of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation), which was expanded in 2008 by the establishment of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation. Within the framework of these twonon-profit institutions, scholarship holders are supported according to their individual needs. Additionally, Anne-Sophie Mutter has regularly shared the spotlight with her scholarship ensemble, “Mutter’s Virtuosi,” since 2011. Working on medical and social problems of our time is also important to her. She supports these causes through regular benefit concerts, for example, for Save the Children or the SOS Children’s Villages. Among many other prizes and awards, the violinist is a recipient of the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the French Order of the Legion of Honor, the Bavarian Order of Merit, and the Grand Decoration of Honor of Austria. Anne-Sophie Mutter has enjoyed a long-standing friendship with Michael Haefliger, the Executive and Artistic Director of Lucerne Festival, which has manifested itself in numerous extraordinary artistic projects at Lucerne Festival.