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Anne-Sophie Mutter (born 29 June 1963) is a German violinist. Born and raised in Rheinfelden, Baden-Württemberg, Mutter started playing the violin at age five and continued studies in Germany and Switzerland.
His fifth marriage, in 2002, was to the German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, for whom in the previous year he had composed his Violin Concerto. They announced their divorce in August 2006, but continued to work together in concerts afterwards. [61] [62]
[1] [2] [5] Among the soloists who have regularly worked with the WKO were Maurice André, Alfred Brendel, Gidon Kremer, and Anne-Sophie Mutter, who was Faerber's friend. [1] [2] Soloist also included Martha Argerich, Rudolf Buchbinder, Hilary Hahn, Sharon Kam, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Frank Peter Zimmermann. [2]
The Concerto for Violin and Orchestra "Anne-Sophie" is a violin concerto by André Previn. It was composed in 2001 by request of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Anne-Sophie Mutter. Previn conducted the first performance in March 2002 in Boston. The same performers recorded the work in 2003, and received a Grammy Award for it in 2005.
She won several important prizes (the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition in Hanover), [2] and a grant from the Free State of Bavaria in 2001, then became a student of Anne-Sophie Mutter's Freundeskreis ("Circle of friends").
Since 2014, she joined the 'Mutter Virtuosi' of Anne-Sophie Mutter, who became her mentor since 2015. Wildschut does masterclasses and lessons with violinist and conductor Jaap van Zweden, violinists Frank Peter Zimmermann and Liviu Prunaru, pianist Menahem Pressler and cellist Anner Bijlsma. [1]
Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter personally coached him in her foundation, [5] [6] thanks to which he could later spend one year studying with Mstislav Rostropovich. [1] Aged 15, he aroused enthusiasm by winning the first prize in the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians in Moscow in 1992.
In 1998 she was introduced to Anne-Sophie Mutter, who became her mentor and later appointed her a scholarship holder in the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation. [5] She was aged twelve in 1999 when Mariss Jansons engaged her as a soloist with the Oslo Philharmonic. [6]