Mutter’s Virtuosi

Anne-Sophie Mutter has made it her mission to support highly talented young musicians in the fields of violin, viola, cello, and double bass. She founded the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation in 2008 for this purpose and regularly performs with its scholarship students; since 2011, she has also appeared alongside these musicians in the ensemble Mutter’s Virtuosi. They undertook their inaugural tour in 2011, performing in eleven European cities. Mutter’s Virtuosi traveled to Asia in 2013, to North America in 2014, and to South America in 2019. Their most recent appearances took them to Iceland, the United States, and Canada in February 2023, where they played works by such composers as Joseph Bologne and Antonio Vivaldi, and to Turkey, Greece, Italy, Austria, and Germany in June. Krzysztof Penderecki’s Duo concertante per violino e contrabbasso, André Previn’s Nonet, and Unsuk Chin’s Gran Cadenza are among the works that have been commissioned for Mutter’s Virtuosi. They frequently give benefit concerts as well: “It is important to me that they fulfill their social responsibility,” explains Anne-Sophie Mutter. The Virtuosi have also participated in the violinist’s Berlin club performances; this collaboration can be heard on the recording Anne-Sophie Mutter Live: The Club Album. The Foundation currently supports ten scholarship students. In recent years, the project has produced such stars as violinists Vilde Frang and Arabella Steinbacher and cellists Leonard Elschenbroich, Pablo Ferrández, Maximilian Hornung, and Kian Soltani.

July 2023