Ann-Helena Schlüter is a German-born Swedish pianist, organist, composer and poet.

Life

Schlüter was born in

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and began her piano lessons at the age of three with her mother, the Swedish piano teacher and organist Ann-Margret Schlüter, ''née'' Elmgren, who comes from Småland, Southern Sweden. From the age of seven, she continued her studies with her father, the German pianist Karl-Heinz Schlüter. Schlüter grew up in

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. At the age of five she won her first youth musician piano competition, at eight she played her first piano recital, at ten she performed a Mozart piano concerto for the first time at the Nürnberg Opera House.Website of Ann-Helena Schlüter
retrieved on 14 July 2020. In addition to attending the music high schools in Nürnberg and Würzburg, Schlüter became a junior student at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg with the Swedish pianist Arne Torger. She won the international Steinway Piano Competition Hamburg, the Nürnberg Piano Competition, was several times first prize winner of the national competition

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in piano solo, piano duo and repetition, prize winner of the Robert Schumann Competition Zwickau and 1st prize at the Concerto Competition in London of the Masterworks Festival USA with Schumann's

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.Ann-Helena Schlüter
on the website of .de; retrieved on 14 July 2020. After she gained her

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from high school, she studied piano at the

Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln The Cologne University of Music () is a public university of music and dance located in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Established in 1850 as the Conservatorium der Musik in Coeln, it is one of the largest music academies in Europe, w ...

with Nina Tichman and completed her instrumental pedagogical diploma there. After the soloist class piano at the

Hochschule für Musik Detmold The Hochschule für Musik Detmold is a university-level music school situated in Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Academics The Hochschule offers performance degrees in composition, all orchestral instruments, piano, voice, opera, ar ...

with Anatol Ugorski, she successfully completed her artistic diploma and concert exam/master class diploma piano with Bernd Glemser at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg. This was followed by a master's degree at the

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in Phoenix with Walter Cosand and Eckart Sellheim as

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scholarship holder. During her studies she worked as a

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and assistant lecturer for repetition, chamber music and song accompaniment. During a stay abroad in

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she completed a concert tour through the country. The artist also writes poetry, prose, novels, articles and songs. Among other things, she won 1st prize at the 11th Villach Literature Competition in Austria. In 2018 she published the novel ''Frei wie die Vögel'', ''Frei wie die Vögel : die Helden von Lübeck – eine Erzählung gegen das Vergessen''
on WorldCat in which she underlays real events – the murder of four clergymen in the "Third Reich", the Lübeck martyrs – with a fictional suggestive framing.

Publications

* ''Lebensheiterkeit'': Hommage an

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, Audio-CD, , 2009. * ''Jeden Augenblick'', Audio-CD, cap-music, 2010. * ''PianoLyrik'' (with Goldberg-Variationen), Audio-CD, cap-music, 2011. * ''Himlasång'' (Himmelslieder), Doppel-Audio-CD, cap-music, 2012. * ''Com’Ann'', Audio-CD, cap-music, 2013. * ''Pianolyrik opus 1'', ''Flügelworte'', 180 Gedichte über Musik. Lorbeer-Verlag, Bielefeld 2013. * ''BACH The Art of Fugue, Die Kunst der Fuge. The Leipzig Concert.'' Double-CD. Periplaneta, 2014. * ''Pianolyrik'' ''opus 2'', ''Flügelworte'', 220 Gedichte. Periplaneta Verlag, Berlin 2015. * ''Pianolyrik Bd. 1 und 2'', Notes. Waldkauz-Verlag (Hörle Musikhaus), Remscheid 2015. * ''Flügel auf Reisen. Die auf den Tasten tanzt.'' Fontis-Verlag, Basel 2016. * Bach: ''Wohltemperiertes Klavier,'' Steinway D in Leipzig and Schwerin, Doppel-CD.

Hänssler Classic Hänssler-Verlag is a German music publishing house founded in 1919 as Musikverlag Hänssler by (died 1972) to publish church music. In 1941 the Nazi government shut down the publishing house. It was allowed by the West German authorities to reo ...

, 2017 * ''Frei wie die Vögel. Eine Erzählung gegen das Vergessen.'' SCM Verlag, 2018. * ''Keine Wolke fällt tiefer als blau'', Lyrikband opus 3. Glaré-Verlag, Frankfurt, 2019. * ''Das Demutsprinzip in Bachs Musik.'' Kopaed-Verlag, München 2019. * ''Stille och Snö. Neue schwedisch-deutsche Orgelmusik''. Heinrichshofen & Noetzel, 2019. * ''Bach Fantasias & Duets.'' Hänssler Classic, 2019

References

External links

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Website of Ann-Helena Schlüter
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schluter, AnnHelena German classical pianists German classical organists German women organists German women classical pianists German women composers 21st-century German composers 21st-century German women composers Swedish classical pianists Swedish classical organists Swedish women organists Swedish women composers 21st-century Swedish composers Living people Musicians from Nuremberg Year of birth missing (living people)