Ann-Helena Schlueter

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Ann-Helena Schlueter

Ann-Helena Schlüter (* in Nuremberg - Laufamholz ) is a Swedish-German pianist , organist , composer and poet from Würzburg .

Life

Ann-Helena Schlüter began her piano lessons at the age of three from her mother, the Swedish piano teacher and organist Ann-Margret Schlüter, born in Jönköping, from Småland, southern Sweden. Elmgren. From the age of seven she continued taking lessons from her father, the German pianist Karl-Heinz Schlueter . Ann-Helena grew up in Würzburg . At the age of five she won her first Jugend musiziert piano competition, at the age of eight she played her first piano recital, and when she was ten she played a Mozart piano concerto for the first time in the Nuremberg Opera House.

In addition to attending the music high schools in Nuremberg and Würzburg, she became a young student at the University of Music Würzburg with the Swedish pianist Arne Torger . She won u. a. the international Steinway piano competition Hamburg, the Nuremberg piano competition, won several first prizes at the national competition Jugend musiziert in piano solo, piano duo and accompaniment, prizewinner of the Robert Schumann Competition Zwickau and 1st Prize Concerto Competition in London of the Masterworks Festival USA with Schumann Piano Concerto.

After graduating from high school, she studied piano at the Cologne University of Music and Dance with Nina Tichman , where she completed her diploma in instrumental education . After taking the piano solo class at the Detmold University of Music with Anatol Ugorski , she successfully completed her artistic diploma and concert exam / piano master class diploma with Bernd Glemser at the Würzburg University of Music. This was followed by a master’s degree at Arizona State University in Phoenix with Walter Cosand and Eckart Sellheim as a DAAD scholarship holder . During her studies she worked as a lecturer and assistant professor for accompaniment, chamber music and song accompaniment. During a stay abroad in Perth , she completed a concert tour of the country.

Schlüter taught piano at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , was a lecturer at the University of Music in Würzburg, taught at the Magdeburg Conservatory and received a Magister Artium in musicology and music education from the Institute for Music Research at the University of Würzburg after three semesters with a master's thesis on Bach's Goldberg -Variations with Ulrich Konrad . She won 1st prize at the Grafimuse International Art Competition for Musicians (Visual Arts Competition Brussels). In the same year she taught at the Telemann Conservatory in Magdeburg . She studied artistic organ playing at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts , after which she released her first organ CD on Classicophon.

As a pianist and organist Schlüter gives concerts internationally (including in Kronstadt, Paris, Moscow, Manila, Ankara, Calvi, Leipzig, Kampala, Kathmandu, Salzburg, London, Melbourne, Hobart, Sydney, Phoenix, Denver, Colorado Springs) and has been playing CDs since 2009 a.

The artist also writes poetry, prose, novels, articles and songs. Among other things, she won first prize at the 11th Villach Literature Competition in Austria. In 2018 she published the novel Frei wie die Vögel , in which she placed real events - the murder of four clergymen in the "Third Reich", the Lübeck martyrs - underlaid with a fictitious suggestive frame.

Publications (selection)

  • Joy of life : Homage to Joseph Haydn , audio CD, cap-music , 2009.
  • Every moment , audio CD, cap-music, 2010.
  • PianoLyrik (with Goldberg Variations), audio CD, cap-music, 2011.
  • Himlasång (Heavenly Songs ), double audio CD, cap-music, 2012.
  • Com'Ann , audio CD, cap-music, 2013.
  • Piano Poetry opus 1 , Wing words , 180 poems about music. Lorbeer-Verlag, Bielefeld 2013.
  • BACH The Art of Fugue, The Leipzig Concert. Double CD. Periplaneta, 2014.
  • Piano lyric opus 2 , wing words , 220 poems. Periplaneta Verlag, Berlin 2015.
  • Pianolyrik Vol. 1 and 2 , sheet music. Waldkauz-Verlag (Hörle Musikhaus), Remscheid 2015.
  • Wings on the move. That dances on the keys. Fontis-Verlag, Basel 2016.
  • Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Steinway D in Leipzig and Schwerin, double CD. Hänssler Classic , 2017
  • Free as the birds. A story against oblivion. SCM Verlag, 2018.
  • No cloud falls deeper than blue, volume of poetry opus 3. Glaré-Verlag, Frankfurt, 2019.
  • The humility principle in Bach's music. Kopaed-Verlag, Munich 2019.
  • Silence och Snö. New Swedish-German organ music. Heinrichshofen & Noetzel, 2019.
  • Bach Fantasias & Duets. Hänssler Classic, 2019

Web links

Commons : Ann-Helena Schlüter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Ann-Helena Schlueter's website , accessed on June 8, 2020.
  2. a b Ann-Helena Schlueter on the website literaturport.de ; accessed on June 8, 2020.
  3. a b short vita on the website of the Frankfurt University of Music , accessed on June 8, 2020 (PDF).
  4. Ann-Helena Schlueter at Discogs (English); accessed on June 8, 2020.