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Anne-Sophie Mutter embarked on her international ca-reer as a soloist in 1976 at the Lucerne Festival and a year later made her Salzburg debut at the Whitsun Concerts under Herbert von Karajan, followed by first appearances in the US (1980), Japan (1981) and Russia (1985). She made her first recording with Deutsche Grammophon at the age of 14 with Mozart Violin Concertos nos. 3 and 5 with Karajan and the Berliner Philhar-moniker; in the years that followed she recorded concertos by Beethoven (1985), Brahms (1982, 1983), Bruch (1981) and Mendelssohn (1981/2008).
The violinist has also committed herself to alleviating the medical and social problems of our times and gives regular benefit concerts to this end. She has been the recipient of numerous im-portant honours and distinctions, including the Order of the Republic of Germany (First Class), the Bavarian Order of Merit, the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit and the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art. In 2002 she was awarded the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Sci-ence and Art and the Munich Cultural Prize of Honour. In 2003 the Bavarian State Ministry of Science, Research and Art bestowed on her the “Pro Meritis Scientiae et Litterarum” distinction, in 2005 she was made an “Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the French Minister of Culture and in 2006 she received the Victoire de la Musique in Strasbourg. In 2008 Mutter is awarded the international Ernst von Siemens Music Prize and donates half of the prize money to the “Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation”, which will be established during the course of the year, and whose objective is to further increase worldwide support for promising young musicians. She also receives Leipzig’s Mendelssohn Prize for “her unique musicality and interpretational skill, and her untiring services to classical music”. Her recordings have been crowned with in-numerable prizes.