Ann-Helena Schlüter


Ann-Helena Schlüter 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 up in Würzburg. 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 Nuremberg Opera House.
In addition to attending the music high schools in Nuremberg 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 Nuremberg 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.
After she gained her Abitur from high school, she studied piano at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln with Nina Tichman and completed her instrumental pedagogical diploma there. After the soloist class piano at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold 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 Arizona State University in Phoenix with Walter Cosand and Eckart Sellheim as German Academic Exchange Service scholarship holder. During her studies she worked as a lecturer and assistant lecturer for repetition, chamber music and song accompaniment. During a stay abroad in Perth she completed a concert tour through the country.
Schlüter taught piano at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, was a lecturer at the Würzburg University of Music, taught at the Magdeburg Conservatory and received the Magister Artium in musicologyen and music education at the Institute for Music Research of the University of Würzburg after three semesters with a master's thesis on Bach's Goldberg Variations under Ulrich Konrad. She won 1st prize at the Grafimuse International Art Competition for Musicians. In the same year she taught at the. She studied artistic organ playing at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, She then released her first organ CD on Classicophon.
As a pianist and organist, Schlüter gives concerts internationally and has been recording CDs since 2009.
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, in which she underlays real events - the murder of four clergymen in the "Third Reich", the Lübeck martyrs - with a fictional suggestive framing.

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