Press Release: December 8, 2025
Anne-Sophie Mutter: 50 years on stage – with
curiosity, commitment and creative drive for the
future of music
Anne-Sophie Mutter is launching her own series, ASM
Forte Forward, devoted to the music of our time.
Between 2026 and 2028, four new recordings will
be released on the Alpha Classics label, exclusively
featuring contemporary works written for her.
Working alongside musical friends – including both
current and former scholarship recipients of the
Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation – this series also
marks a new chapter in Mutter’s career: for the first
time, she is producing the recordings herself.
- The first release, East Meets West, will be
released on 27 March 2026 and includes
works by Aftab Darvishi, Unsuk Chin, Jörg
Widmann and Thomas Adès.
Deutsche Grammophon: „The Nature of Anne-Sophie Mutter“:
a curation of her discography
A new series of recordings in collaboration with Alpha Classics: a
focus on contemporary music
- The second album, American Tunes #1, features works by André Previn and Sebastian
Currier. It will be released in August 2026, coinciding with Mutter’s jubilee concert at the
Lucerne Festival.
The collaboration with Alpha Classics expands Mutter’s artistic radius and complements
her decades-long partnership with Deutsche Grammophon. Both worlds enrich each other –
independent artistic freedom and long-term continuity. “With Alpha Classics, I am opening up new
avenues for myself and my foundation. I am delighted that Alpha Classics is creating a forum for my
new series, ASM Forte Forward, which stands for courage, independence and openness to new ideas.
These are values that I would like to pass on to the next generation,” says Anne-Sophie Mutter.
At the same time, Deutsche Grammophon is marking
the anniversary with a comprehensive catalogue
initiative spanning 40 years of collaboration, tracing
the course of her career: reissues of iconic recordings
and a series of digital albums curated by Anne-Sophie
Mutter paint a panorama of her artistic development
– from her early recordings under Herbert von
Karajan to her most recent recordings.
At the beginning of February, Anne-Sophie Mutter’s
first recording, made in 1978, Mozart’s Violin
Concertos Nos. 3 & 5 with the Berlin Philharmonic
and Herbert von Karajan, will be released as a reissue
in the audiophile vinyl series “The Original Source
Series.” This series presents outstanding recordings
from the 1970s in a whole new sound quality.
A series of digital albums, personally curated by Anne-Sophie Mutter, will be released at irregular
intervals in 2026 and 2027: Each album will focus on a city with which Anne-Sophie Mutter has had
outstanding musical encounters, concerts and recordings. We will follow the artist “around the
globe,” starting in February 2026 with the album “Anne-Sophie Mutter & London” and travelling via
Berlin, Lucerne, Salzburg and Vienna to Tokyo and New York.
Furthermore, STAGE+, Deutsche Grammophon’s streaming service, celebrates Anne-Sophie
Mutter’s outstanding artistic achievements with an extensive selection of video-on-demand content
(exclusive interviews, concerts, documentaries) covering her work with Herbert von Karajan in the
early 1980s and her recent collaborations with film composer John Williams.
Lucerne and Salzburg:
two fixed stars in the stage anniversary
The anniversary takes Anne-Sophie Mutter back to places that have shaped her career. At the
Lucerne Festival, where her international stage career began in 1976, she will perform contemporary
works as well as great classics from her repertoire next year. In 2027, she plans to return to
Salzburg, where she made her debut in 1977 and began her groundbreaking friendship with Herbert
von Karajan. The anniversary year will be accompanied by numerous other international concerts
showcasing the diversity of her repertoire and her commitment to contemporary music.
Her humanitarian commitment will also be part of her stage anniversary: on 12 May 2026, Anne-
Sophie Mutter will play a benefit concert for Doctors Without Borders in Dresden. On 15 June
2026, she will perform with the Berlin Baroque Soloists at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg in aid of
Welthungerhilfe.
An anniversary with a view to the future:
composition commissions & world premieres
In 2027, the anniversary year will continue with further highlights – including world premieres of
newly commissioned works by Sebastian Currier and Golfam Khayam. More information on this will
be announced in the summer of 2027.
An anniversary can be a retrospective – or a starting point. For Anne-Sophie Mutter, it is the latter.
She is using this moment to break new ground: as a soloist, mentor, producer and catalyst. “Music
opens up a space that we can all enter, no matter where we come from. It invites us to come closer
to one another, to listen and to feel a genuine connection. The fact that music creates this dialogue
and brings us together makes it one of the most beautiful and important forces of our time,”
explains Anne-Sophie Mutter.
January 23/24: Taipei:
Asian premiere: Likoo by Aftab Darvishi
National Symphony Orchestra
Lina González-Granados, conductor
Works by John Williams
January 29/30: Hong Kong
Hong Kong Philharmonic
Lina González-Granados, conductor
Works by John Williams
February 14: Künzelsau
Würth Philharmonic
Claudio Vandelli, conductor
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
February 18: London
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Karina Canellakis, conductor
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Further tour dates: February 20: Cologne,
February 21: Düsseldorf, February 22:
Luxembourg, February 24: Hamburg,
February 26: Hanover, February 27:
Frankfurt, February 28: Vienna
March 18/20/21: Tel Aviv, March 19: Haifa
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Lahav Shani, conductor
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
May 12: Dresden
Benefit concert for Doctors Without Borders
Lauma Skride, piano
Sakura Toba, cello
May 16: London
European premiere of Likoo by Aftab
Darvishi
Lauma Skride, piano
Maximilian Hornung, cello
Upcoming concerts in 2026 (selection)
May 22: Turin
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko, conductor
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
June 2: Cologne
Berlin Baroque Soloists
German premiere of Likoo by Aftab Darvishi
Works by Previn and Mozart
Further tour dates: June 3: Dortmund,
June 4: Düsseldorf, June 6: Coesfeld, June
9: Stuttgart, June 10: Freiburg, June 11:
Mannheim, June 13: Regensburg, June 14:
Bad Kissingen
June 15: Hamburg
Benefit concert for Welthungerhilfe
Participants and programme: see above.
Lucerne Festival
Anniversary: 50 years on stage
August 23: Lucerne
Artist talk on the 50th stage anniversary
August 25: Lucerne
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Swiss premiere of Likoo by Aftab Darvishi
Works by Previn and Mozart
September 3:
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Honeck, conductor
Penderecki: Metamorphoses