The Trondheim Soloists 
The ensemble TrondheimSolistene was founded in 1988 by Professor Bjarne Fiskum, and was for many years an arena for professional concert training for string players at the Conservatoire in Trondheim. As a result after many concerts throughout Europe as well as concert tours to the USA, Japan and Brazil, TrondheimSolistene has grown to be an ensemble of international renown.

Anne-Sophie Mutter

Anne-Sophie Mutter was born in Rheinfelden in Baden. She embarked on her international career 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.

Ever since then she has been one of the greatest violin virtuosos of our time. Anne-Sophie Mutter has performed concerts in all the major music centers of Europe, the USA and Asia. In addition to performing major traditional works she has continually treated her audiences to new and innovative repertoires: chamber music and orchestral works presented on equal terms. She also uses here popularity for charity projects and supports the development of young, exceptionally talented musicians.

Anne-Sophie Mutter is this year’s recipient of the International Ernst von Siemens Music Prize.

In 2008 Ann-Sophie Mutter will be performing concerts in Asia, Europe and North America. During a European tour she will celebrate the 100th birthday of Herbert von Karajan with Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. She will play Brahms' Violin Sonatas together with pianist Lambert Orkis in the USA and Germany and perform Antonio Vivaldi’s "The Four Seasons" during an Asian tour. In a chamber music extravaganza the violinist will play Beethoven’s String Trios together with Yury Bashmet and Lynn Harrell. Bach’s Violin Concertos are on program of another USA tour.

Passion and simplicity are the key words in Anne-Sophie Mutter's music-making. At the start of her career that still meant a passionate pleasure in speed and in her own technical abilities, as required for the virtuoso concertos of Paganini and Wieniawski. It was her detailed exploration of the violin concertos of Mozart that made her less responsive to the purely technical exhibitionism of those bravura works. "If you take an early interest in the multi-layered nature of music as well as in the partnership between soloist and orchestra, then you miss this in works that are superficially virtuosic," says Anne-Sophie Mutter in explaining what collaborative performance means to her. In virtuoso concertos the soloist is always tempted to indulge in navel-gazing, whereas Anne-Sophie Mutter takes particular pleasure in engaging in a real dialogue with the other players.

Remarks: Tickets for Concert by Anne-Sophie Mutter and TrondheimSolistene are available now!