Anne-Sophie Mutter has performed with every major orchestra worldwide, and worked with every major conductor. Not only does she retain a complete mastery of standard repertoire, she is a champion of new music projects and chamber music. Ms. Mutter is also active in a variety of charitable causes, and is a bearer of the Order of Merit of the German Federal Republic, 1st Class, the Bavarian Order of Merit, the Austrian Honor Cross, and the "Ordre des Arts et des Lettres."

"Anne-Sophie Mutter is one of the few artists capable of blending talent, artistic character and naturalness with immaculate technique, inner feeling, emotion and reason. She plays with a unique warmth, soulful tone and direct expression of feeling combined with an impressive and frequently fiery temperament" --Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

"Mutter's playing defines the word virtuosic; few have ever hit notes with such accuracy and panache." --The Star Ledger

Ms. Mutter will be performing Ludwig van Beethoven's Violin Concerto; a piece she had famously recorded with Herbert von Karajan in 1980, a recording that, to many, became the definitive recording of this, the greatest violin concerto ever written, standing shoulder to shoulder with the recordings of Menuhin and Heifetz. This concert is fourth of the Raymond James Beethoven Festival and will also feature Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 'Pastoral'. Maestro Bramwell Tovey conducts. -- www.vancouversymphony.ca