For nearly five decades, the four-time Grammy Award-winner Anne-Sophie Mutter has been a fixture in the world’s major concert halls, making her mark on the world as a soloist, mentor, collaborator, humanitarian, and visionary artist.

Dedicated to supporting young musicians, Mutter founded the Association of Friends of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation in 1997, to which the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation was added in 2008. Since 2011, Mutter has regularly shared the spotlight on stage with her ensemble of fellows known as Mutter Virtuosi.

Mutter’s 2025 season includes this US recital tour, which marks her 37th year collaborating with pianist Lambert Orkis. She also performs John Williams’s Second Violin Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic; appears with the Sofia Philharmonia and Staatskapelle Berlin; and performs in a trio with pianist Yefim Bronfman and cellist Pablo Ferrández.

Mutter has been recognized around the world for her contribution to the arts, culture, social causes, and leadership. She has been awarded the German Grand Cross of the Order of Merit, the French Medal of the Legion of Honor, the Bavarian Order of Merit, the Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria, and numerous other honors. Most recently, the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music bestowed an honorary doctorate upon her in 2022, and in 2023, she received the Ruhr Piano Festival Prize and was awarded a Gold Medal from the Royal Philharmonic Society. She made her San Francisco Symphony debut in 1988 as a Shenson Young Artist and was an artist in residence in 2019–20.

Munich-based violinist Ye-Eun Choi was born in Seoul, South Korea. She made her orchestral debut at age ten with the Seoul Philharmonic. She was discovered by Anne-Sophie Mutter at age sixteen, and is a scholar of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation. In 2004, she moved to Munich, Germany to study with Ana Chumachenco at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, graduating in 2014. She made her San Francisco Symphony debut in 2015.

Ms. Choi and Ms. Mutter share the stage this season performing chamber music throughout Europe, the US, and Asia, together with cellists Daniel Müller-Schott and Kian Soltani, as well as violist Vladimir Babeshko. Extensive concert tours will bring them to concert halls such as Vienna Konzerthaus, Berlin Philharmonie, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Palau de la Musica Catalana, Carnegie Hall, and Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, among others.

Ms. Choi’s recent and future concerts include appearances with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra with Neeme Järvi, NHK Symphony Orchestra with Stéphane Denève, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse with Joseph Swensen, Seoul Philharmonic, Daegu Symphony Orchestra with Massimo Zanetti, the German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra with Krzysztof Penderecki, BBC Philharmonic with Rory McDonald, Girona Orchestra, Malta Philharmonic, and Orchestre de Chambre de Luxembourg, among others.

Highlights of previous seasons include concerts with Orchestre National de France under Riccardo Muti in Paris, Bavarian Radio Symphony under the baton of the late Mariss Jansons, Gyeonggi Philharmonic conducted by Jaap van Zweden, and the Osaka Philharmonic and Eiji Oue. She performed with the Seoul Philharmonic in a concert during the National Liberation Day of Korea.

Ms. Choi plays a violin by J.B. Guadagnini, c. 1765. She is represented worldwide by Natalja Slobodyreva at Meta Artists International.

German violist Vladimir Babeshko has performed at the Lockenhaus, Schleswig-Holstein, Rheingau, Edinburgh International, Verbier, Next Generation, Oberstdorfer Musiktagen, Weilburger Schlosskonzert, Oranjewood, Chelsea Music, and Rio Music Week festivals, collaborating with esteemed colleagues such as Christoph Eschenbach, Gidon Kremer, Daniel Müller-Schott, Gary Hoffman, Lynn Harrell, Lambert Orkis, Ksenia Bashmet, and the Henschel Quartet.

Mr. Babeshko was a scholarship recipient of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation from 2009 to 2018. This season he joins Ms. Mutter for chamber music performances throughout Europe, North America, and Asia, and on tour to South America with the Mutter Virtuosi. This performance marks his debut under San Francisco Symphony auspices.

Mr. Babeshko is currently first solo violist and section leader of the Belgian National Orchestra. In 2015, he performed composer Pierre-Dominique Ponnelle’s Viola Concerto—composed and dedicated to Mr. Babeshko—in Mannheim, Germany with the Kurpfälzisches Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Babeshko plays on an 1870 viola by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, which is generously lent to him by the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation.

In the 2019–20 season, cellist Daniel Müller-Schott is Museum Soloist of the Museum Society Frankfurt with six performances, including a concert with the Frankfurt Museum Orchestra under Giancarlo Guerrero. He also performs with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, Helsinki Philharmonic, Danish National Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Welsh National Opera Orchestra, Tonkünstler Orchestra, Dresden Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, NCPA Orchestra in China, New Japan Philharmonic, and the Seoul Philharmonic.

Chamber music is an important part of Mr. Müller-Schott’s music making. In addition to playing with Anne-Sophie Mutter & Friends in an extended orchestra and chamber music tour in Europe, Asia, and the US in celebration of Beethoven’s anniversary year in 2020, he can be seen in different chamber music constellations with Kit Armstrong, Bertrand Chamayou, Sabine Meyer, Olli Mustonen, Francesco Piemontesi, Simon Trpčeski, as well as the Aris Quartet and Quatuor Modigliani in festivals including the Schubertiade, Heidelberg Spring, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, and venues such as Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Louvre Paris, and Wigmore Hall London.

Mr. Müller-Schott’s latest recording for the Orfeo label features works by R. Strauss with pianist Herbert Schuch and Don Quixote with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Andrew Davis. Future releases include the solo cello disc #CelloUnlimited, which contains twentieth and twenty-first century works for cello solo, as well as the Beethoven-Jubilee-Box by Deutsche Grammophon, which features his recording of late Beethoven works with Daniel Hope & Friends.

Mr. Müller-Schott received the 2013 Aida Stucki Award and received sponsorship from the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation. He was taught by Mstislav Rostropovich, Walter Nothas, Heinrich Schiff, and Steven Isserlis. In 1992, he won first prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition, Moscow. Mr. Müller-Schott plays the 1727 “Ex Shapiro” Matteo Goffriller cello.