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Time: 2008/5/27-2008/5/28
Venue: The National Centre for the Performing Arts-Music Hall
Price: 180/280/480/680/880/1080
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The Trondheim Soloists
Theensemble TrondheimSolistene was founded in 1988 by Professor BjarneFiskum, and was for many years an arena for professional concerttraining for string players at the Conservatoire in Trondheim. As aresult after many concerts throughout Europe as well as concert toursto the USA, Japan and Brazil, TrondheimSolistene has grown to be anensemble 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.

Eversince then she has been one of the greatest violin virtuosos of ourtime. Anne-Sophie Mutter has performed concerts in all the major musiccenters of Europe, the USA and Asia.In addition to performing major traditional works she has continuallytreated her audiences to new and innovative repertoires: chamber musicand orchestral works presented on equal terms. She also uses herepopularity 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 Herbertvon Karajan with Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. She will play Brahms'Violin Sonatas together with pianist Lambert Orkis in the USA and Germanyand perform Antonio Vivaldi’s "The Four Seasons" during an Asian tour.In a chamber music extravaganza the violinist will play Beethoven’sString Trios together with Yury Bashmet and Lynn Harrell. Bach’s ViolinConcertos are on program of another USA tour.

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