Anne-Sophie Mutter
Internationally renowned violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter returns to North America following her triumphant North American recital tour, performing as guest soloist with the orchestras of Cleveland, Chicago, Boston, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, and, as guest orchestra of the Ann Arbor May Festival, the Leipzig Gewandhaus. In February 1990, Ms. Mutter celebrates the tenth anniversary of her North Amer- ican debut in concerts with the New York Philharmonic and Zubin Mehta, the orchestra and conductor with whom she gave that first performance. She is also scheduled to return to North America for further recital tours in the spring of 1990 and the spring of 1991.
A prolific recording artist, Anne-Sophie Mutter has just completed two new releases for Deutsche Grammophon. The first of these features Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Herbert von Karajan. The second includes Stravinsky's Violin Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Paul Sacher and Witold Lutoslawski's Chain II and Partita with the BBC Symphony conducted by the composer. Later this year, Deutsche Grammophon will release the complete Beethoven string trios with Ms. Mutter, Bruno Giuranna, and Mstislav Rostropovich. Erato has recently released Ms. Mutter's recording of the Glazunov Violin Concerto and Prokofiev's Concerto No. 1 with the National Symphony conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich. Ms. Mutter also counts several recordings on the EMI/Angel label among her credits, with Herbert von Karajan, Riccardo Muti, and Seiji Ozawa. She has also recorded concertos of Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Bruch with Karajan and the Berlin Philhar- monic for Deutsche Grammophon. Her future recording plans include projects with the Berlin Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
A proponent of contemporary composers, Ms. Mutter presented the world pre- miere of Lutoslawski's Chain II with Paul Sacher at Zurich in 1986, and she has commissioned concertos from Krzysztof Penderecki and Norbert-Eloi Moret. She is also an accomplished chamber musician, collaborating with Alexis Weissenberg, Yehudi Menuhin, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Bruno Giuranna. In January 1988, as part of the Mutter/Giuranna/Rostropovich String Trio, she appeared in gala per- formances for President von Weizacker in Berlin and for President Mitterrand in Paris. An inspiration for young musicians, Anne-Sophie Mutter is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and the first holder of the International Chair of Violin Studies. She has received such awards as the 1979 Deutscher Schallplat- tenpreis, a Grammy nomination, the Premio Internazionale Accademia Musicale Chigiana, and the most prestigious and popularly acclaimed German award, the classical music "Bambi." Anne-Sophie Mutter first appeared with the Boston Sym- phony Orchestra in February 1983, when she performed Bruch's G minor violin concerto. She has since returned to perform Lalo's Symphonie espagnole in April 1985 and the Beethoven Violin Concerto in April 1988.
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