Ann-Helena Schlüter (born in

Nürnberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ci ...

) is a Swedish-German pianist, organist, composer and poet.

Life

Schlüter 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

Würzburg Würzburg (; Main-Franconian: ) is a city in the region of Franconia in the north of the German state of Bavaria. Würzburg is the administrative seat of the ''Regierungsbezirk'' Lower Franconia. It spans the banks of the Main River. Würzburg is ...

. 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 The Hochschule für Musik Würzburg (University of Music Würzburg) was founded in 1797 by Franz Joseph Fröhlich as Collegium musicum academicum (Academic college of music). From 1921 to 1973, it was named Bayerisches Staatskonservatorium der Mu ...

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 Jugend musiziert 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

Piano Concerto A piano concerto is a type of concerto, a solo composition in the classical music genre which is composed for a piano player, which is typically accompanied by an orchestra or other large ensemble. Piano concertos are typically virtuoso showpiec ...

.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 music college in Cologne, Germany. Founded in 1850, it is Europe's largest academy of music. History The academy was founded by Ferdinand Hiller in 1850 as ''Conservatorium der Musik in Coeln''. In 1895 Ger ...

with

Nina Tichman Nina Tichman (born 27 April 1949 in New York) is an American pianist. She studied at the Juilliard School in New York, which awarded her the Eduard-Steuermann-Prize for outstanding achievements, then in Europe with Alfons Kontarsky, Hans Leygraf ...

and completed her instrumental pedagogical diploma there. After the soloist class piano at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold with

Anatol Ugorski Anatol Ugorski (in , born 28 September 1942 in Rubtsovsk, Altai Krai, Soviet Union) is a classical pianist of Russian origin who lives in Germany. Biography Anatol Ugorski was born into a poor background and is the eldest of five children. In ...

, she successfully completed her artistic diploma and concert exam/master class diploma piano with

Bernd Glemser Bernd Glemser (born 1962, Dürbheim) is a German pianist. A student of Vitaly Margulis, in 1989 he became Germany's youngest piano professor at Saarbrücken's Musikhochschule. He has recorded major pieces by Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Schumann, ...

at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg. This was followed by a master's degree at the

Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the ...

in Phoenix with Walter Cosand and Eckart Sellheim as

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scholarship holder. During her studies she worked as a

lecturer Lecturer is an List of academic ranks, academic rank within many universities, though the meaning of the term varies somewhat from country to country. It generally denotes an academic expert who is hired to teach on a full- or part-time basis. T ...

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 The Lübeck Martyrs were three Roman Catholic priests – Johannes Prassek, Eduard Müller and Hermann Lange – and the Evangelical-Lutheran pastor Karl Friedrich Stellbrink. All four were executed by beheading on 10 November 1943 less than ...

– with a fictional suggestive framing.

Publications

* ''Lebensheiterkeit'': Hommage an

Joseph Haydn Franz Joseph Haydn ( , ; 31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions ...

, 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, 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)