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‚Ann-Helena Schlüter has a remarkable style, great talent.’
Sebastian Fitzek, Bestseller Author
You seem like a breeze Full shovel human Fast flowered Where is your country
Ann-Helena Schlüter 2020
‘Her texts reveal a catch game in a deeper meaning, question the objectively postulated commitment of truth which is linguistically tangible: An author we can expect a lot from due to her intelligence, eloquence and competence.’
Dr. Reinhard Kacianka, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt zu ihrem 1. Preis Literaturwettbewerb Villach, Österreich
In the early morning: Daily life stands and waits, Is not a usual one Gives beings hope wears a skirt Never flies away
aus: Keine Wolke fällt tiefer als blau (No cloud falls deeper than blue), Glare-Verlag Frankfurt
Sound Traces
Desire for words. Thoughts are art hived off, waiting for the right moment. Words of imagery. Expression of an explosion, freedom, sea of blessings. We are not (alive) because we think, but because we hear. Hearing beauty.
Is there not more to this world than the things we see? All art shows that gifts and talents do not come from us humans. There must be an artist whom we mirror. Freedom of our thoughts, confessions and plans, all this belongs to freedom.
Beauty lives when it is free and unconditional, for beauty is unconditionality. But at first it is powerlessness; it grows, because it has joy deep in its core. Poetry dissolves, but lays itself invisibly and powerfully into the time. Between the lines stands the longing for eternity. The invisible becomes visible. Minor becomes major.
Early morning is a beautiful time for me to be creative. Inspiration, grace, perseverance: in music, I see an equation light up in pulse, tempo, as if I could analyse life and its paradigms in sounds, balance and time and measure them by ear. Poetry unfolds in rhythm, when it can be the heartbeat. And especially in human songs, in literature, it finds fulfilment.
Ann-Helena Schlüter
piano meets poetry
Overcome
Light-footed dwarfs tickled the bridge of her nose: sheet music. She smiled with anticipation when she thought of music. She walked forward. It was just a big hall full of people waiting for her, no need to get nervous. She came, she smiled, she bowed, and sat down. Her invisible microphone in front of the piano forced and encouraged her to find her own voice, to search. Her mind became her voice, immersed into her hands and veins; wet hot iron on the keys.
The vibrating waves made her rest. How gentle and calm was the heart of the grand piano! Her creativity, however, made the voice of her soul and thoughts spill over, in fever, so that her altitudes swelled, overflowed; sounds and tones blew over. They went crazy with heat, took off with energy, untamed.
But a notion of rhythm, modest in itself, immediately turned her burning into a carpet, so that her voice changed from a fiery trumpet to a piano. Now she was urged to plunge her head, including her hair, through the keys into the grand piano, as if she were going to bathe in a liquid, inky-black lake of lacquer; her long hair became damp, lacquer-black and stuck to her face; she found the music in the belly of the piano. She dived all the way through there and felt like Jonah in the belly of the fish.
Their sounds, belonging together yet separated by pedal, flowed through their senses, through the vastness of their spaces, through the shadows, paving their way. How pulsating the sounds of the fine hammers on the strings of the piano were; amazingly contradictory and cutting through like little knives: In this lightly clacking sound of the hammers, which she could almost feel like pain, lay symbolically the voice and work of the pianist on the huge lacquer ship: visions. Recital.
The original line of the ostinato bass, exclusively consisting of the melodic notes of the theme, a compendium of symbolic sound pieces, the scaffolding voice of entanglements and counter-voices, the subterranean stocking and branching of the original theme… with tenderness she rounded off the work, created the restoration, which was nevertheless reinterpreted, transformed, no longer the same theme and yet the same, translated.
She interpreted the mysterious relationship between theme and variation, the relationship between herself and the grand piano. The invisible, tender message. She was not music. But she sang through it, and she had lent her voice to it. So she danced her way out of the grand piano’s body again and had her hands tell her stories and feelings to the audience.
The note dwarfs of her senses tickled her enticingly. They were the bell-like, brilliant runs. Her hands almost flew (over the piano keys). The sonatas and fugues swayed her exuberantly and mischievously through the hall, as if she were a child, not an adult, and at the same time a preacher, the word in music. What did she pour out on the people in the hall with trills and thirds? The grand piano rolled away underneath her, its legs began to dance. The black lacquer shone like a mirror. When she stopped singing, the music spoke without her, because the music always knew where it wanted to go.
An ornamented Sarabande of regular construction, a sound piece, a hand piece, nuzzled its way into her hand. A cavern echoed her thoughts. Throbbing ways in her head brought her droning consciousness to a halt, but her fingers whirled on. Sequences that cut the air around her, spinning in circles to dance. The chords seemed to get louder and louder, but actually they didn’t: it was the density of the rapid succession and the notes stacked high like books in a library; those simulated an increase in volume. The meditatively active rhythm pushed them away. Then: a sudden shift of the chord sequence, a shift in the beat. She listened and was speechless. Her rhythm became a heartbeat. She wanted it to flood her whole being.
Er folgt mit vielen Tönen, mit Klang mich zu verwöhnen, das singende Klavier, ein Herztraum, Tastentier. Und täglich auch voran treibt mich das Tongespann, ist Freund und Zufluchtsort, hält Ton und Klang und Wort. (aus Flügel auf Reisen, Fontis-Verlag Basel, A. Schlüter)
Word.
Auszug Lyrikbände, Romane, Fachbücher:
- Kreativ denken (ISBN 9783957650702)
- Die Prädatorin (ISBN 9783981974515)
- … und trotzdem (ISBN 9783981430462)
- Orchester, Tannhäuser, Mali (ISBN 10 3954884437)
- Bündnis, Tasmanischer Tiger (ISBN 13 9783954884438)
- Gegangen I (ISBN 9783943408-126 oder -256, eB)
- Gegangen II (ISBN 9783861962182)
- Behörde (ISBN: 9783981022292)
- JS Bach Goldberg-Variationen (Buch, Studie)
- Auferstehung am Flügel (CD, Hörbuch Lebensheiterkeit)
- Sein Name (CD, Hörbuch Lebensheiterkeit)
- Vertrauen (ISBN 3873542390)
- Glück (ISBN 3873542390)
- Pianistenhand (ISBN 9783895149955)
- Spätjahr (ISBN 9783895149955)
- Angesichter (ISBN 9783895149955)
- z. B. Kinder (ISBN 3879983240)
- Zeit (ISBN 392870043)
- Stilleklang, Bündnis (ISBN 9783930048601)
- Weilenklang (ISBN 9783930048601)
- Jeden Augenblick, Text & Melodie (cap, CD und Buch)
- Com’Ann (cap, CD, eigene Lieder und Liedtexte)
- Nachtgedanke (cap, CD, ISBN 4045027036317)
- 40 Himmelslieder (cap, Doppel-CD)
- Gott ist gegenwärtig, Singt dem Höchsten (cap, CD, Hörbuch)
- Worte des Meisters (cap, CD, Hörbuch)
- Lyrikbände: Flügelworte, PianoLyrik opus 1, opus 2 und Keine Wolke fällt tiefer als blau, Lyrik opus 3, Glare Frankfurt, Periplaneta Berlin, Literaturverlag Bielefeld
- Romane: Frei wie die Vögel, Kalila, Flügel auf Reisen, Demutsprinzip in Bachs Musik (SCM, Fontis Brunnen Basel, Kopaed München)
In Concert Recitals 2021 (Ausschnitt)
Guest soloist and pianist at Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken and Kaiserslautern with Azis Sadikovic, ARD Week 2020, Saarländischer Rundfunk, Kulturradio SR 2 and SWR, Bach Festival Arnstadt 2020 and 2021, Jury member Piano Competition Berner Foundation Frankfurt am Main, Amberger Orgelsommer 2020, Heessener Orgelsommer 2020, Bochumer Orgeltage 2020, Orgelfrühling Hamburg Altona 2020, Göteborg, Marktkirche Wiesbaden, Marktkirche Hannover, Dom Fulda, Klavier-Festival Wilhelmshaven, Recitals piano Berlin, Heilbronn, Wiesbaden, Sylt, Beethoven Piano Recitals in Europe.
The Swedish-German pianist and organist, born in Nuremberg, from Würzburg and Leipzig, studied piano, organ and musicology in Germany, Austria, USA and Australia. Concert diploma, master class diploma concert exam piano HfM Würzburg with Bernd Glemser, soloist class piano HfMT Cologne, artistic organ with Christoph Bossert (grade 1.0), soloist class piano HfM Detmold with Anatol Ugorski, USA and Australia; Artistic organ at HfMDK Frankfurt; piano and organ completed with overall grade 1; concert exam KE organ HfK Heidelberg; concert organ HfMT Hamburg with Pieter van Dijk, performs virtuoso piano and organ music, own works and J. S. Bach worldwide.
Award winner international music and literature competitions: 1st prize Steinway competition, Hamburg, 1st prize Nuremberg piano competition, 2nd prize Schumann competition Zwickau, 1st prize concerto competition of the Masterworks festival USA with Schumann piano concert in London, Ettlingen, ARD, several times award winner nationwide competition, 1st prize literature competition Nuremberg, Villach/Austria, Regensburg, Bielefeld, 1st prize art competition Brussels
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto in B flat minor (Jena Philharmonic Orchestra, Kalajdzik), Schumann Piano Concerto (Masterworks Festival Orchestra, London, Sewell), Grieg Piano Concerto (Arizona State University, Jando), Camille Saint-Saens (Orchester Musikgymnasium Würzburg), Haydn Piano Concerto (Akademieorchester, Vasquez, Abt), Bach Piano Concertos (Chamber Orchestra Chamber of Lights Berlin, Chamber Orchestra Musica Salutare Stuttgart), Mozart Piano Concertos (Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, Opernhaus Nürnberg), Beethoven, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken und Kaiserslautern, Sadikovic 2020.
Published 10 CDs and 8 books so far. She publishes CDs and volumes of poetry, novels, sheet music, books on musicology and on musical education every year (Hänssler Classic, SCM Verlag, Fontis Verlag Basel, Periplaneta Berlin, Kopaed Munich, Heinrichshofen Verlag). She studied Artistic Piano and Artistic Organ Playing (with basso continuo), Professors Ugorski, Glemser, Torger, Wiebusch, Klomp, Bossert, in parallel musicology, Instrumental and Music Pedagogy. Universities of Music Cologne, Frankfurt, Würzburg, Detmold, Heidelberg, Mozarteum Salzburg, University of Leipzig and Würzburg.
2 years of piano studies in the USA as DAAD scholarship holder Master of Music, 7 months Australia. Master of Arts (Bach’s Goldberg Variations), doctorate on Bach’s Kunst der Fuge (art of fugue) and Bach tutoring (Professors Konrad, Brusniak, Loos, Henning). Radio recordings at Bayerischer Rundfunk, SR 2, NDR, Radio Opera, Klassik-Radio.
Beethoven Klavierkonzert Nr.3, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie
2020
Tastenforscherin. Durstsingen
Mag. art. Ann-Helena Schlüter, deutsch-schwedische Pianistin, Komponistin, Organistin, aus einer Pianistenfamilie, Klavierunterricht seit dem 3. Lebensjahr bei ihrem Vater Prof. Karl-Heinz Schlüter (Torgau) und ihrer Mutter, der schwedischen Musikpädagogin und Organistin Ann-Margret Schlüter, geboren Elmgren (Jönköping).
Gedichte und Kompositionen seit dem 8. Lebensjahr, Wettbewerbe und Konzerte seit dem 5. Lebensjahr. Radioaufnahmen Bayerischer Rundfunk, Bayern 4 Studio Nürnberg, NRD, SR 2. Veröffentlichungen von CDs, Büchern und Noten, Konzerte weltweit. Konzerte in den KZ Buchenwald und Auschwitz.
Studium Klavier, Orgel, Musikwissenschaft
Sie studierte künstlerisches Klavier in der Meisterklasse Konzertfach Klavier an der Hochschule für Musik Würzburg (Künstlerisches Diplom, Meisterklassendiplom Konzertexamen) bei Prof. Bernd Glemser. Klavier an der Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln bei Prof. Nina Tichman, Nebenfach Gesang, zuvor. Davor Jungstudentin bei Prof. Arne Torger (Schweden), neben dem Musikgymnasium Nürnberg und Würzburg, Solistenklasse Klavier bei Prof. Anatol Ugorski an der Hochschule für Musik Detmold, zudem Instrumentalpädagogisches Diplom. Textdichterin vieler Lieder und Autorin von Gedichten, komponiert. Mit ihren Verlagen produzierte sie bisher 10 CDs. Ihre Gedichte sind in ihren eigenen Bänden, zudem in Anthologien und Literaturzeitschriften veröffentlicht.
Klavierkonzerte: Tschaikowsky b-Moll mit den Jenaer Philharmonikern, Beethoven mit Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken und Kaiserslautern, Mozart Klavierkonzerte mit dem Kammerorchester Chamber of Lights Berlin und dem Sommerorchester Leipzig im Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, Schumann Klavierkonzert mit dem Masterworks-Festival-Orchestra in der Emmanuel Church London, Grieg Klavierkonzert in der Katzin Concert Hall Arizona State University, USA, und im Opernhaus Nürnberg mit dem Opernhausorchester. Konzerte mit Kammerorchestern aus Stuttgart und Würzburg. Sie studierte als DAAD-Stipendiatin (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) 2 Jahre in den USA für den Master of Music M.M.
USA, Australien
2 Jahre in den USA für den Master of Music M.M. Klavier und Kammermusik bei Prof. Eckart Sellheim, Prof. Walter Cosand (Arizona State University Phoenix, Arizona, named to the Dean’s List for outstanding academic achievement at Arizona State University, Nebenfach Gesang Prof. Anne Kopta, Musikgeschichte Prof. Lingas), und 7 Monate in Perth und Melbourne, Australien.
Seit dem Magistra Artium (M.A.) in 3 Semestern als Stipendiatin im Doppelhauptfach Musikwissenschaft und Musikpädagogik an der Universität Julius Maximilian Würzburg (Institut für Musikforschung, Prof. Ulrich Konrad, Prof. Friedhelm Brusniak), Magisterarbeit veröffentlicht, und anschließend promovierend Universität Leipzig, Bacharchiv (Prof. Loos) und Universität Mozarteum Salzburg in Bachvermittlung (Prof. Henning), konzertiert sie in den USA, Asien, Australien und Europa.
Die Pianistin studierte zudem Künstlerisches Orgelspiel an der HfMDK Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt, neben ihrer Konzerttätigkeit, der Veröffentlichung von Klavier- und Orgel-CDs und Romanen von 2017-2019 in der Klasse Prof. Carsten Wiebusch mit einer außergewöhnlichen Hochstufung von 6 Semestern und der Note 1 in der Abschlussprüfung nach 2 Semestern Studium und der Gesamtnote “sehr gut” (Nebenfach Gesang, Generalbass, Jazzklavier bei Prof. Christoph Spendel), Bachelor-Arbeit veröffentlicht. In diesem Jahr B. Mus. entstand ihre erste Orgel-CD Bach zwischen Lübeck und Paris bei Classicophon mit Schübler Chorälen und eigenen Werken und ihr erster Roman Frei wie die Vögel (SCM). Anschließend 2019 KE Konzertexamen Orgel Kirchenmusikhochschule Heidelberg als Stipendiatin für ein Semester. Kirchenmusikalische Prüfung (C-Prüfung) 2016 mit Gesang: 1. Promotionsstudium Universität Mozarteum Salzburg, Prof. Heike Henning, in Musikpädagogik, Musikvermittlung; Musikwissenschaft Bach-Archiv Leipzig.
Dozentin
Lehrauftrag Klavier an der Universität Würzburg und Hochschule für Musik Würzburg, Dozentin Arizona State University School of Music Phoenix, Graduate Assistant Katherine Herberger College of Fine Arts Phoenix und Performing Art Studio Scottsdale, Telemann-Konservatorium Magdeburg, Jazzhausschule Köln, Musikschulen Koblenz, Schweinfurt, Würzburg, Zempleni Festival Ungarn.
Stipendiatin DAAD, der Vera Ritter-Stiftung, der Edwin Fischer-Stiftung, der Bayreuther Festspiele, Sensus Schweden, Begabten-Stipendiatin Arizona State University Phoenix, USA (2x 21.000 $), der Australian Bach Society Melbourne, der GVL-Stipendiatin (Gesellschaft zur Verwertung von Leistungsschutzrechten), Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung, Akademie der Lesenden Künste Detmold, Literaturbüro Ostwestfalen, Weik Stiftung, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Stipendiatin Katherine Herberger Institute and College of Fine Arts, USA, der CPAF Indiana für die Masterworks-Festivals Houghton, Rochester, Chicago und London (Daniel Martin-Lewis, Stephen Clapp, Caio Pagano).
Auswahl Konzertländer: Sie spielte in Tasmanien, London, Nepal, USA. Schweden, Tschechien, England, Schottland, Belgien, Slowakei, Israel, Russland, Australien, Palästina, Türkei, Rumänien, Schweiz, Österreich, Asien, Polen, USA… Darunter Benefizkonzerte für Straßenkinder und Taifunopfer auf den Philippinen, Flüchtlingshilfe, Hilfe für Uganda, Rumänienhilfe, Aquaponics, CfA.
Auswahl Preise
- 1. Preis Interna. Steinway-Wettbewerb Hamburg Laeiszhalle
- 1. Preis Interna. Nürnberger Klavierwettbewerb
- 2. Preis Interna. Schumann-Wettbewerb Klavier Zwickau
- 1. Preis Bundeswettbewerb Jugend musiziert mehrfach
- Sonderpreis Bundeswettbewerb
- Landeswettbewerb 1. Preis, mehrfach Höchstpunktzahl
- Finale Internationaler Klavierwettbewerb Ettlingen
- Finale Concorsi Internazionali di Musica della Val Tidone
- 1. Preis Concerto-Competition London des Masterworks-Festival USA (Schumann-Klavierkonzert)
- 1. Preis Internationaler Literaturpreis Villach, Österreich
- 1. Preis Literaturwettbewerb Nürnberg
- 2. Preis Lyrikwettbewerb Lorbeer Bielefeld
- Preisträgerin Literaturwettbewerb Regensburg RSGI
- Preisträgerin StopArmut-Literaturwettbewerb Winterthur
- Preisträgerin Literatur Theologische Hochschule Vallendar
- Preisträgerin Kunstgeflecht e.V.
- Finale Förderpreis Hattinger Literaturtage
- Finale Literaturwettbewerb Lions Club Hamburg
- Finale Runde Münchner Lyrikwettbewerb
- Preisträgerin Bibliothek deutschsprachiger Gedichte
- Ehrendiplom Universität Manila, Philippinen
- Certificate of Lecture-Recitals, Ateneo de Manila University, University of Santo Tomas Conservatory
- Jüngstes Mitglied des AVF Autorenverbands Franken
- Jüngstes Mitglied des VS (Verband Deutscher Schriftsteller)
- 1. Preis Visual Art Competition Grafimuse Brüssel (Acryl)
- 1. Preis Talentwettbewerb Würzburg
- Erfolgreiche Teilnahme ARD-Wettbewerb München
- Mitglied Künstlerbewegung Das Rad, VG Wort
- Crescendo International und Tonkünstlerverband
- Ordentliches Mitglied GEMA Komponistin, Textdichterin
- Gründung Ann-Helena & Band
- named to the Dean’s List at the Herber College of Fine Arts Phoenix, USA, for outstanding academic achievement at the Arizona State University Phoenix, USA
Internationale Meisterkurse im In- und Ausland Klavier, Klavierduo und Orgel (Italien, Polen, Litauen, USA, Spanien, Schweiz, Sommerakademie Mozarteum, Haus Marteau, internationale Sommerkurse in Klavier, Orgel und Komposition Leipzig, Regensburg, Stockholm, Salzburg, Frankfurt, Montepulciano, Indiana, ISAM….).
Meisterkurse (u.a. durch DAAD, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) bei Olivier Latry, Naji Hakim, Daniel Roth, Hans-Ola Ericsson, Jürgen Essl, Ofer Ben-Amots, Martin Schmeding, Paul Jacobs, Christoph Bossert, Angela Hewitt, Guarneri Trio Prag, Boris Bloch, Duo Stenzl, Duo Karl-Heinz und Michael Schlüter (Vater und Sohn, Géza Anda-Schüler), Vitaly Margulis, Vassily Lobanov, Sergej Maltsev, Isaak Zetel, Rudolf Kehrer, Walter Fleischmann, Duo Thal-Groethuysen, Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Paul Gulda, Lazar Berman, Walter Blankenheim, Peter Feuchtwanger, Sergio Perticaroli, Alexis Weissenberg, Pavel Gililov, Arbo Valdma.
Auswahl ihrer Konzerte Klavier und Orgel in den USA, Europa, Russland, Israel, Philippinen, Afrika, Australien, in Deutschland: Meistersingerhalle, Opernhaus Nürnberg, Hamburger Laeiszhalle, Toscanasaal Residenz Würzburg, Steingraeber Bayreuth, Academy of Music Beit Jala, Kloster Leubus, Slot-Festival Liegnitz, Polen, Zempleni Festival Ungarn, Manila Universität Philippinen, Universität Kampala, Universität Malatya, Türkei, Talitha Kumi Bethelehm, Austrian Hospice Jerusalem, Musikakademie Riga, Stadtcasino Basel, Schmitt Music Denver, USA, Academy of Arts Zakopane, Polen, German School Washington D.C., Deutsche und Schwedische Botschaft Canberra, Trinity College Chapel Melbourne, Wesley Music Centre Canberra, Landesakademie Baden-Württemberg, Rubinsteinsaal München, Admiralspalast Berlin, Pianosalon Dresden, Kurhaussaal Bad Steben, Houghton College Rochester, USA, Kürnachtalhalle Lengfeld, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, American Center Library Moskau, St. Georg Hobart/Tasmanien, Surrogato, Mallorca, Theatre de Vanves Paris, Französischer Dom Berlin, Kulturtage und Kulturspeicher Würzburg, Barocksaal Rostock, Stadthallen Braunschweig, Reutlingen, Herrenberg, Bad Blankenburg, Lengfeld, Sindelfingen, Liederhalle Stuttgart Hegelsaal, Piano Centrum Matthaes Stuttgart, Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, Jazzfest Frankfurt, Sequoias San Francisco, USA, Grace College Winona Lake, Indiana, Musikakademie Saldus, Lettland, Lelb Centrum Riga, Festhalle Harmonie Heilbronn, Schloss Elmau, Schloss Kranzbach, Schloss Gohlis Leipzig, Schloss Röhrsdorf Dohna, Schloss Weitenburg, Schloss Augustusburg Weißenfels, Schloss Halberg Funkhaus Saarbrücken, Wasserschloss Herrnhut, Schloss Schwanberg, Schloss Langenselbold, Schloss Dottenwil, Schloss Hurlach, Wasserschloss Ruppersdorf, Schlosskapelle Solitude Stuttgart, Heidecksburger Schloss, Schloss Werneck, Schloss Wusterhausen Berlin, Schloss Frohnburg Salzburg, Schloss Moritzburg Tafelsaal, Schloss Langenselbold, Residenzschloss Oettingen, Schloss Craheim, Schloss Gracht Köln, Schloss Büdingen, Orangerie Museum Schloss Hofgarten Wertheim, Schloss Raitelbach, Schloss Imbshausen, Schloss Sondershausen, Schloss Fürstenried München, Burg Wernfels Nürnberg, Palazzo Monte Compatri, Rathaussaal Lauf und Schweinfurt, Saalbau Luisengarten, Luminale Frankfurt, Kurhaus Langeoog, Timmendorf Strand, Juist, Festsaal Landeskonservatorium Vorarlberg, St Paul’s Shadwell London, Abtei Münsterschwarzach, Kloster Triefenstein, Arcadia Hannover, Glasperlenspiel Asperg, Musiktheater Valsesia und Rathaussaal Val Tidone, Italien, Dunoon Baptist Church, Cowal Island, Scotland, Bogoljubow-Bibliothek der Künste Moskau, s. Oliver-Arena Würzburg, Pfarrsaal Mülln, Salzburg, Pauluskirche Basel, Steinway-Hall Phoenix, Blancafort-Orgel Santo Angel, Valencia, University San Tomas Manila, Black Church Kronstadt, St Paul’s Cathedral Melbourne…
Sprachen
Großes Latinum, spricht fließend Englisch (Toefl-Test: Score 760 Graduate), fließend Schwedisch (B2, Zentrum für Sprachen ZFS Universität Würzburg).
Absolutes Gehör.
“In meinen Noten steckt ein großes Stück meines Lebens.”
AHS in: Sonntag in Sachsen
Kunst ist, in den Reigen der Wiederherstellung einzutreten.
Töne teilen sich wie das Meer,
aus: Flügel auf Reisen, Fontis -Verlag Basel
jage und schwinge hindurch mit den Händen,
mit dem Streitwagen der Kunst?
Tasten biegen und fliegen,
springe ab, stehe!
Von wem, was werde ich singen? Soli Deo Gloria!
Biography: Flying Fingers
Ann-Helena Schlüter, swedish-german pianist, born in Nuremberg, first prize International Steinway Competition Hamburg, Germany, second prize Robert Schumann Competition Zwickau, Germany, Master of Music Arizona State University Phoenix, USA, Art Diploma piano and organ Cologne, Frankfurt, Würzburg. Lecture Demonstrations to Bach’s Art of Fugue presented by the SCM Historical Performance Unit in conjunction with the SCM Piano Unit Sydney and Arizona State and University of the Philippines Manila.
Organ Art and Church Music: strings, pipes, solo concerts for organ and piano, concert organist, concert pianist
Ich liebe das Wunderwerk, das Klanggut (Pfeifen), dann erst sehe ich den Spieltisch mit mehreren Klaviaturen, liebe die Windladen, das Regierwerk. Kirchenorgel.
Ann-Helena Schlüter
The concert organist Ann-Helena Schlüter studied the concert discipline organ at the HfMDK Frankfurt/Main; HfK Heidelberg, HfM Würzburg (Bossert), HfMT Hamburg (van Dijk) and HSLU Luzern/Stuttgart (Kay Johannsen).
Organ festivals, organ concerts, matinees – ambassadress of the poetic miracle organ
Concert organist. The singing organ.
Virtuoso organ art and organ poetry. Recording Artist
The connection and the interplay of piano and organ performance: The concert organist (HfMT Hamburg) promoted in 2021/20 with grant funds by the Ernst-von-Siemens music foundation, who studied artistic organ (optional subject conducting, LO, clavichord) in Frankfurt/Main, Heidelberg, Würzburg and Hamburg, is performing at concerts world-wide, also during Corona times.
Concerts organ and more: organ concert with own poetry and own compositions.
‚The audience will certainly appreciate the expression of her improvisations.’ (Jan Ernst)
- Bach-Festival Arnstadt, Bachkirche 2021/2021
- Thüringer Orgelsommer 2021/2022
- St. Michael Intern. Berlin Orgelsommer 2021
- Kunstsommer Aub Ars Musica 2021
- Böckinger Orgelsommer 2021
- Schongauer Orgelnacht 2021/22 Sandtner
- Nürtinger Orgelsommer 2021
- Oberhausen Orgelsommer 2021
- Ansbacher Orgeltage 2021
- Traukirche von J.S. Bach Dornheim 2021/20
- Rheydther Musiksommer Mönchengladbach
- Musiksommer Starrkärr, Kilanda, Schweden
- Orgelfrühling St. Petri Hamburg Altona 2020
- Dom zu Fulda 2020
- Amberger Orgelsommer 2021/20
- Marktkirche Hannover, Goll-Orgel 2020
- Orgelsommer Eggenfelden, Klais-Orgel 2021
- Orgelkonzert Marienkirche Kaiserslautern 2021
- Rudolstädter Orgeltage 2021
- Marktkirche Wiesbaden 2020
- Orgelsommer Dreifaltigkeitskirche Erlangen
- St. Bonifatius Freckenhorst, Seifert-Orgel 2021
- Orgelsommer Neckarsulm Klais 2021
- Hamm-Heessener-Orgelkonzerte 2020
- Burger Orgelmusik Fehmarn, Kleuker
- Giengener Orgelmatinée 2020
- Orgelpunkte Schnitger-Orgel Stade 2019, 2020
- Marktmusik Furtwängler-Orgel Buxtehude 2020
- Dom zu Limburg 2021
- St. Petrus-Kirche und Christuskirche Dresden
- Orgelkonzert Paul-Gerhardt, Hamburg-Altona 2020
- St. Marien Beate Mariae Wolfenbüttel, Schuke
- Nikolaikirche Leipzig, 2019
- Michaeliskirche und Salvatore Hermannsdorf 2019
- Peterskirche Leipzig 2018, Jahn-Orgel
- Organ- Hall Arizona State University, USA
- Propsteikirche und Lutherkirche Lübeck 2019
- Frauenkirche Bremen 2019
- St. Wolfgang Regensburg 2019
- Deutsche Kirche Stockholm 2018
- Augustinerkirche Würzburg
- Heiliggeist, St. Bonifatius, Peterskirche Heidelberg 2019
- Orgelsommer Hanau 2019
- Bachwoche Heidelberg 2019
- Orgelsommer Lauingen 2019
- Bachfest Tübingen 2018
- Bachtage Würzburg 2016
- Bensheimer Orgelwochen, Ott-Orgel 2018
- Greifswalder Orgelsommer, Dom St. Nikolai 2018
- KunstKulturKirche Allerheiligen Frankfurt 2019
- Blancafort-Orgel Santo Angel, Valencia 2019
- Klosterkirche Vadstena und Äspered, Schweden 2019
- Domkonzerte Wetzlar 2019
- Dommusik Würzburg 2018
- Internationaler Riddagshäuser Orgelsommer 2017
- Internationales Orgelfestival Düsseldorf ido 2016
- Schlosskirche und Friedenskirche Düsseldorf 2016
- Orgelsommer Berlin-Heiligensee 2019
- Musik im Gespräch Universität Würzburg
- Orgelsommer St. Nikolaus Rosenheim, Reil-Orgel 2018
- Münstereifler Orgelsommer
- Orgelsoiree Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen 2019
- Orgelsommer Peterskirche Wien 2017
- Orgelsommer Sofiakirche Jönköping, Schweden 2018
- Orgelsommer Michaelskirche Schloss Schwanberg 2018
- St. Gertrudes Church Riga, Lettland
- Hessenthaler Frühlingskonzerte Wallfahrtskirche 2018
- Orgelsommer Taborkirche Freudenstadt 2018
- Konzerte Bergkirche Bahlingen 2018
- Herrnhuter Orgelkonzerte 2017
- Tage Neuer Musik HfKM Regensburg, Goll-Orgel 2019
- Orgelsommer Rügen, Sassnitz, Sagard, Gingst 2019
- Emporenkonzerte St. Stephan Würzburg
- Amis de l’orgue Kern de Gerstheim 2021, 2023
- St. Augustinus Hannover 2020
- Orgelsommer Heiligenhafen 2020, Weigle-Orgel
- Sommer-Orgel-Reihe Oberhausen 2021
- Westerholter Orgeltage 2021, Breil-Orgel
- Blankensteiner Abendmusik 2020
- Kolbermoorer Orgeltage 2020
- Orgelsommer Berlin-Heiligensee, Schuke 2020
- Bochumer Orgeltage 2020
- Silbermann-Orgel Helbigsdorf 2019
- Silbermann-Orgel Barockkirche Meißenheim 2018
- Starrkärs-Kyrka Alafors, Kilanda, Göteborg, Älvängen 2020
- Duomo Cagliari, Duomo Sardegna 2019
- St. Josef und Heilig Kreuz Würzburg 2019
- Orgelsommer Ostfriesland 2019
- St. Johannes Kitzingen 2019
- Schlosskapelle Solitude Stuttgart 2019
- Friedenskirche Hanau 2019
- Stadtkirche Bad Blankenburg 2019
- St. Marry Curinga, Kalabrien 2019
- Beckerath-Orgel Würzburg und Frankfurt 2019
- Reformierte Kirche Iserlohn
- Ev. Zentrum Nürnberg-Langwasser 2019
- Martinmünster, Augustinerkirche Lauingen 2019
- Emmanuel Church London
- Sydney Conservatorium, Australien
- Ateneo de Manila Universität
- Ibach-Orgel Ref. Kirche Wuppertal-Cronenberg 2018
- German Lutheran Trinity Church Melbourne 2018
- St. Paul’s Cathedral Melbourne, Australien 2018
- Orgelpunkte in Leipzig, Bremen, Magdeburg, Lübeck
- Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche Berlin 2017
- Gabler-Orgel St. Georg Ochsenhausen 2019
- Saint Mary of the Assumption San Francisco, USA 2018
- Schuke Universitätskirche Neubaukirche Würzburg 2018
- St. Laurenzen, St Gallen, Schweiz 2017
- St. Peter und Paul, Kreuzkirche Augsburg 2018
- Nazarethkirche Berlin, Pallottikirche Vallendar
- Klosterkirche Irsee und Braunschweig 2018
- Geistliche Orgel-Musik Liebfrauenhöhe Stuttgart 2018
- Johanniskirche Hagen 2018
- Stadtkirche Germering München 2018
- Immanuel und St. Joseph München 2018
- St. Joseph und Spitalkirche Öhringen 2017
- St. Laurentius Marktheidenfeld 2018
- St. Johannis, St. Peter und Paul Würzburg 2018
- Kirchentage Stuttgart und Leipzig
- Ladegast Hohenmölsen 2020
- University of Santo Tomas Conservatory Manila
- Französischer Dom Berlin
- Gedächtniskirche Schönefeld, Leipzig 2017
- Kirche Mölkau, Leipzig, St. Nikolai Döbeln 2017
- Monastery Universität Prag
- St. Andrew Church Moskau
- Schwarze Kirche Kronstadt
- Agenskaln Baptist Church Riga 2018
- St. Andrew, Bibliothek schöne Künste Moskau 2018
- Pankratiuskirche Möglingen
- Kreuzkirche Berlin Königs-Wusterhausen
- Klosterkirche Oberndorf, Thomaskirche Aulendorf 2019
- Saint Merry Paris
- St. Georg Battery Point Hobart, Tasmanien 2018
- Pauluskirche Basel
- Rogatekirche München
- 1. Orgel-CD 2018/2019 bei Classicophon Rheine, u.a. Bachs Schübler-Choräle
Organ poetry: sensual, masterly, singing, tender improvisations. Free, own composition
Trost Orgel Thüringen 2021, Audite CD HOLY SPIIT 2022
Weiterklang, Weilenklang, Stilleklang, Geheimnisse
‚I love the guided ways of the wind when I play the organ: Ways of sound, vertical, horizontal, conveyed ways of movement. The air refracts on the upper labium above the air column. Through this refraction, the sound is swinging and symbolizes the unity within the contradiction.’
Ann-Helena Schlüter, Orgelvirtuosin
Organ pianist, piano organist, concert artist, recording artist
Dynamic, brilliant organ art. Bach‘s music stretches up to the sky: Bach to the future.
The organ virtuoso Ann-Helena Schlüter gives concerts with most various organs. Through Bach’s Passacaglia, the versatile concert pianist and composer also became a concert organist with numerous recordings. After her studies in the field soloist class piano at the HfMT Cologne and HfM Detmold and concert exam master class diploma piano with Bernd Glemser at the HfM Würzburg and two years as scholarship holder in the US and Australia (Master of Music piano, chamber music), she started training at the organ right in the middle of her piano career.
During her international concert performances (at first freelance) as pianist and art director, artist at Hänssler Classic, she started her organ studies in parallel at the Hochschule für Musik HfDMK (conservatory) in Frankfurt/Main. Already after one year, she graduated with an overall grade of 1 (April 2019, B.Mus – upgraded by 6 semesters). From 2018 to 2019 she continued giving concerts at the piano and the organ and additionally published her debut organ CD at Classicophon abroad as well as the novel Frei wie die Vögel (free as the birds) at SCM Verlag and a further Bach piano CD Duette (Duets) with Hänssler Classic (produced at the Mozarteum Salzburg) as well as her compositions Stille och Snö (for organ and piano) with the Heinrichshofen-Verlag. Additionally she was regularly educated by Hans-Ola Ericsson and Günther Kaunzinger and learned the pedal play very fast. Afterwards, she studied Master of Music Organ within one year with the overall grade 1,0 at the HfM Würzburg with Christoph Bossert, published one more poetry volume and a musical paper at publishers in Munich and Frankfurt, she studied one semester KE concert exam organ at the church music conservatory HfK Heidelberg while working on her doctor thesis, afterwards at the HfMT Hamburg with Pieter van Dijk.
Her first organ classes took place at the Thomas church Leipzig at the Bach organ; during her two year piano studies in the US, one semester organ at Arizona State University Phoenix USA. Already since 2013, she gave many organ concerts with Bach’s Kunst der Fuge (Art of the Fugue). 2016: C exam Bavaria on protestant church music at St. Stephan Würzburg. Organ master courses, among others, in Stockholm with Hans-Ola Ericsson, Najik Hakim, Daniel Roth, Olivier Latry, Paul Jacobs.
Auswahl CDs und Kompositionen
- Neue große Bach-CD bei audite 2022, Trost Orgel Waltershausen 2021
- Orgelwerke, Klavierwerke, Kompositionen für Trio, Quintett bei Furore Verlag Kassel 2021/20
- Orgelwerke bei Laurentius Musikverlag Frankfurt am Main 2021/20
- Das Demutsprinzip in Bachs Musik, Kopaed Verlag München 2020
- Bach-CD Fantasias, Musical Offering & Duets, Das Musikalische Opfer, Vier Duette, Chromatische Fantasie und Fuge, Mozarteum Salzburg, Hänssler Classic, Steinway D, 2019
- Bach zwischen Lübeck und Paris. Orgel-CD mit Schübler Chorälen und Chromatischer Fantasie und Fuge, BWV 543 (a-Moll) und BWV 542 (g-Moll), Classicophon, Blancafort-Orgel Valencia, 2019
- Stille och Snö: Klavier- und Orgelnoten, Heinrichshofen-Verlag, 2019
- Keine Wolke fällt tiefer als blau, Lyrikband opus 3, Glaré Verlag Frankfurt am Main 2020
- Frei wie die Vögel, historischer Roman, SCM Verlag
- Bach Wohltemperiertes Klavier WTK I, Hänssler Classic, Steinway D, 2017, Doppel-CD
- Bach Kunst der Fuge, The Leipzig Concert, Doppel-CD, Periplaneta Verlag Berlin
- Flügelworte, Lyrikband opus 2, Periplaneta Verlag Berlin
- Bach Goldberg-Variationen, cap-music Verlag Altensteig
- Piano Lyrik, zwei Bände Noten eigener Werke (PianoLyrik) Orgel und Klavier, Waldkauz Hörle Köln
- Zwei CDs mit eigenen Liedern und Songs (CD Jeden Augenblick, CD Com’Ann), cap-music Verlag
- Himlasång, Himmelslieder, Doppel-CD mit eigenen Werken (Schwedische Himmelslieder), cap-music
- CD PianoLyrik, Chopin Balladen, cap-music Verlag Altensteig
- Beethoven Waldstein-Sonate, cap-music Verlag Altensteig, CD PianoLyrik
- Haydn Klaviersonaten, Lyrik, cap-music Verlag Altensteig, CD Lebensheiterkeit
Dialog Orgel und Klavier. Konzertorganistin und Orgelpianistin.
“Orgel plus” – Konzerte
mit Flöte, Posaune, Gesang, Orgel vierhändig, Orgel-Duo, Orgel und Klavier
Gesang
- Mainfranken Theater Würzburg, E-Opernchor: Verdi, La Traviata, Dvorak Stabat Mater, Wagner; Jugendchor Oper Leipzig
- Bach-Chor Leipzig, Nikolaikirche Leipzig (Sopran I): Matthäus- und Johannes-Passion
- Kammerchor Universität Würzburg
- St George’s Choir Hobart, Tasmanien, Australien
Den phantastische, pianistische Blickwinkel in die Welt der Orgel getropft.
Ann-Helena Schlüter
Berg krault Wasserfall Klang kaut Gewässer im Sturm Ewige Wolke auf der Haut
“Die Königin lässt bitten”. Kirchenmusik 2.0 und Maria 3.0
Der schöne Orgelton: Klavier-und Orgelspiel bilden eine Einheit. Der Flügel ist Schutzraum und hat Schwingen. Die Orgel singt dazu. Bachfugen sind hochemotional, sinnlich, Nothelfer, voll Spannung, Dramatik, intellektuellem Genuss und Dichtkunst; zudem Ermutigung, Rat und Trost.
Zuerst bekam ich meinen Kindheitsflügel, einen 2, 40 m großen, originalen Blüthner-Flügel mit Goldplatte aus unserem Schlösschen Röthenbach an der Pegnitz. Seit 2016 besitze ich meinen neuen Steinway B 604174 aus Hamburg. Jetzt auch Orgeln in allen Größen, ja, denn dieses Land und die Welt besitzen schöne Orgeln und viele Kirchen. Und nun auch mein schönes Clavichord (Zander und Sander Ruys) und Cembalo.
Bachs Musik und Orgelmusik insgesamt ist Poesie. Nicht nur Lautstärke, Register und Setzer, sondern sanfter Klang, virtuoses Spiel. Das, was für andere mathematische, alte Musik ist, ist für mich lebendige, künstlerische Sprache, Lyrik, Tongeber.
Die Welt braucht Veränderung, fort von einerseits Härte und Profit, andererseits übermäßiger Galanterie und Gefühlsbusiness. Große Kunst braucht Disziplin: Die Essenz von Bachs Können und Handwerk, seinem Stil der Demut, seiner Musik des Trostes (er kannte Schmerz und Verlust), seinem Prinzip, dennoch und trotz allem jemand Größerem die Ehre zu geben, gleichzeitig sein authentisches Menschsein mit Schwächen und Fehlern, Zornausbrüchen und Empörung, das alles macht ihn zum Vorbild. Wer kann schon seinen Namen in Tönen ausdrücken, jemand, der Fuge als Berufung hat und darin unübertrefflich darin war?
Und was macht Johann Sebastian Bach? Er verwendet seinen Namen als perfektes Fugenthema versteckt, symbolisch, setzt ihn vorsichtig an die Seite, für Laien unbemerkt. Er hätte das alles auch ganz anders handhaben können. Mit seinem Namen B-A-C-H in Tönen unterschrieb er das Soli Deo Gloria seines Gesamtwerkes: “Gott allein die Ehre, und ich, Bach, glaube dies persönlich.” Er ist ein Gegenpol zur Welt, ein notwendiger, wohltuender selbst in der Kunst, ein Gegensatz. Der vielleicht einzige konsequente, große.
„Jemand, der so nach Freiheit lechzt wie du, liebt Fugen und Kanons?“ fragt man mich. „Es gibt doch nichts Strengeres!“
Der Flügel, die Orgel: Saiten und Pfeifen – zwei sehr unterschiedliche Instrumente, doch aus einem Gedanken, aus einer Quelle, aus einem Guss. Sie ergänzen sich: das im Anschlag unterschiedliche Manualiter-Spiel inspiriert sich gegenseitig, verwandelt und öffnet neue Horizonte in Artikulation, Technik und Klangvorstellungen. Das künstlerische Orgelspiel behindert die pianistische und virtuose Technik nicht, im Gegenteil, das Orgelspiel ist jeder Pianistin, jedem Pianisten zu empfehlen.
Orgelpianistin, Klavierorganistin: Ich bin mit dem Flügel in einer Pianistenfamilie aufgewachsen, neben dem Klavier geboren worden. Meine virtuose Technik verdanke ich meinen Pianisten-Eltern Ann-Margret und Karl-Heinz Schlüter. Einige meiner wundervollen Klavierprofessoren wie Bernd Glemser während meiner internationalen Ausbildung verfeinerten und vertieften meine Virtuosität. Nach meinem ersten Orgelunterricht in Deutschland (Stefan Kießling), Nebenfach Orgel USA (Guy Whatley) und der C-Prüfung in Würzburg (Kabitz, Heidecker, Gaar) erfolgte mein Turbo-Orgelstudium künstlerisches Orgelspiel mit viel Hochstufung an der HfMDK Frankfurt, HfK Heidelberg, HfM Würzburg (Christoph Bossert) und HfMT Hamburg (Pieter van Dijk) mit Meisterkursen und Studium bei Hans-Ola Ericsson und Günther Kaunzinger. Durch die intensive Ausbildung ist meine Liebe, virtuose Technik, Souveränität und Vertrautheit mit der Königin der Instrumente trotz Hindernisse kontinuierlich gewachsen. Soli Deo Gloria.
Hindernisse? Es gibt Organisten, die mir nicht gönnten, als Frau und Pianistin zusätzlich Konzertorganistin zu werden.
Improvisation, Liturgy, Composition
Master classes in organ with Daniel Roth, Olivier Latry, Naij Hakim and Hans-Ola Ericsson, among others, and in choir / choral conducting with Wolfgang Schäfer. Her subjects were orchestral conducting (Frank Löhr, Ari Rasilainen), harpsichord and clavichord (Menno van Delft), choral conducting (Frank Dittmer), liturgical organ playing / liturgy (Jan Ernst, Reiner Gaar, Johannes Gebhardt), singing and composition. She is a protestant, ecumenical and religous artist.
Organ tutoring
Orgelmusik für junge Leute, Gesprächskonzerte, Bildungsvermittlung. Bach berühren. Soli Deo Gloria
Choral conducting, choir and voice
Master classes in organ with Daniel Roth, Olivier Latry, Naij Hakim and Hans-Ola Ericsson, among others, and in choir / choral conducting with Wolfgang Schäfer. She also studied orchestral conducting (Frank Löhr, Ari Rasilainen), harpsichord and clavichord (Menno van Delft), choral conducting (Frank Dittmer), liturgical organ playing (Jan Ernst, Reiner Gaar, Johannes Gebhardt), singing and composition. She is a protestant, ecumenical and religious artist.
Composer of choral music
She publishes choral works and new spiritual songs. Her publishers include Heinrichshofen, Merseburg, PAN, Furore, audite, Hänssler Classic.
Composition, improvisation, organ tutoring
Church music and concert discipline organ
The church musician Ann-Helena Schlüter is a studied concert pianist, musicologist and award winner, concert exam piano with Bernd Glemser at the HfM Würzburg. She is a composer, lyricist and author.
- 2022 Training and studies at the Institute for Church Music and Musicology at the University of the Hanseatic City of Greifswald, Pomerania (for diploma B-certificate church musician, upgraded to 5th S. alongside international concert activity).
- 2017 C-certificate completed at the Protestant Church in Bavaria
- 2019 one semester concert exam KE organ church music college Heidelberg, Carsten Klomp
- 2020 overall grade 1,0 Master concert discipline organ, Hochschule für Musik HfM Würzburg, Christoph Bossert
- 2018 Grade 1.4 Bachelor Concert Organ, Hochschule für Musik HfMDK Frankfurt am Main, Carsten Wiebusch
- 2021 Grade 1.7 in Master Concert Organ, Hochschule für Musik und Tanz HfMT Hamburg, Pieter van Dijk, Jan Ernst
- 2021-2022 Postgraduate studies in concert organ HSLU Lucerne, Kay Johannsen (Stiftskirche Stuttgart)
The pianist began her artistic organ studies in 2017. She was upgraded up to 6 semesters in all courses of study. Some subjects, she studied in parallel. She also studied privately with Hans-Ola Ericsson. Her other subjects were orchestral conducting (Frank Löhr, Ari Rasilainen), harpsichord and clavichord (Menno van Delft), choral conducting (Frank Dittmer), liturgical organ playing (Jan Ernst, Reiner Gaar, Johannes Gebhardt), singing and composition.
She received her first organ lessons at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig. She is a Protestant, ecumenical and religious artist. Master classes in organ with Daniel Roth, Olivier Latry, Naij Hakim and Hans-Ola Ericsson, among others, and in choral conducting with Wolfgang Schäfer.
Composer of church music
She composes spiritual songs, new hymns, organ works, new music, piano concertos and orchestral works. She publishes choral works and new sacred songs. Her publishers include Heinrichshofen, Merseburg, PAN, Furore, audite, Hänssler Classic. She has played at least 1700 concerts since her childhood until today.
She founded Orgel Vlog AHS, Organ Tutoring and Bach Tutoring and was awarded many (international) performance scholarships.
Bach Tutoring, organ tutoring
Ann-Helena Schlüter is a church musician and music teacher who teaches Bach’s music to young ears. She studied musicology and music education as double main study at the universities of Würzburg, Leipzig and Salzburg, Mozarteum.
CDs
Her latest CD HOLY SPIRIT at the great Trost organ Waltershausen was released June 2022 by audite.
Soli Deo Gloria
Termine
Ann-Helena Schlüter
The Swedish-German artist Ann-Helena Schlüter is the only contemporary concert organist in the world who is a composer, internationally acclaimed concert pianist, musicologist, musical educator, lyricist, book author and painter. This combination is unique and extraordinary. She lives from music, art and concerts. As a multi-talented composer, lyricist and novelist, she enjoys renown. She studied in Australia, USA, Austria, Switzerland and Germany. A Bach tutor, organist and music researcher, she is a rare multi-talent. First she was taught by her mother (Swedish, Elmgren, born in Jönköping), then by her father Prof. Karl-Heinz Schlüter (Busoni and Chopin prize winner, born in Torgau). She was considered a child prodigy. She began playing the piano at the age of three with her pianist parents.
“An exceptional talent.” (Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger) Press Italy Novels Awards
Pianistin
The German-Swedish Steinway Artist, born in Nuremberg into a family of pianists, is the most versatile musician and researcher of her time. The virtuoso pianist, organist, award-winner and soloist has been performing worldwide since 2010 with hundreds of concerts per year (a total of 2000 concerts until 2022). After the concert exam KE piano master class diploma HfM Würzburg with Bernd Glemser – previously artistic diploma piano HfMT Cologne College of Music and Dance, HfM Detmold soloist class piano (Anatol Ugorski), two years with DAAD in the USA, she discovered the organ. She enjoys a reputation as a multi-talented composer, lyricist and novelist.
Organistin
The Swedish-German artist Ann-Helena Schlüter is the only contemporary concert organist in the world who is an internationally acclaimed concert pianist, musicologist, book author, lyricist, composer and music teacher and who makes her living from music, concerts and art. This combination is unique and extraordinary.
The innovative concert organist studied concert organ in Frankfurt/Main, Heidelberg, Würzburg, Hamburg and Lucerne, Christoph Bossert, Pieter van Dijk, Kay Johannsen, triple international artistic master in organ and piano: 3 times M.MUS. B.A. B.MUS., Magister Musicology M.A., 3 diplomas, KE concert exam, soloist exam.
Musicologist
The innovative and virtuoso concert organist studied concert organ in Frankfurt/Main, Heidelberg, Würzburg, Hamburg and Lucerne since 2017, among others with Christoph Bossert, Pieter van Dijk, Kay Johannsen. Triple international artistic master in organ and piano: 3 times M.MUS. B.A. B.MUS., Magister Musicology M.A., 3 diplomas, KE concert exam, soloist exam. Upgrading up to 6 semesters each, which has never been done before, and parallel triple studies at home and abroad, which has never been done before. Concert Master Organ HfMT Hamburg with Pieter van Dijk and Concert Master Organ HfM Würzburg with Christoph Bossert, overall grade 1.0. Previously, HfMDK Frankfurt am Main (overall grade 1) and course of study KE Concert Exam Organ (HfK Heidelberg) even before the Master, also unprecedented. Then advanced soloist class organ with Kay Johannsen, Stiftskirche Stuttgart, at the Musikhochschule HSLU Luzern, Switzerland. She has since performed worldwide on the organ since 2016.
Composer
She composes and publishes works for orchestra, organ, piano and choir. In 2022 she wrote her first piano concerto.
Author
The Swedish-German artist Ann-Helena Schlüter is the only contemporary concert organist in the world who is an internationally acclaimed concert pianist, musicologist, lyricist, composer, book author, painter and music educator. This combination is unique and extraordinary. She lives from music, art, concerts.
Painter
She is a visual artist, she paints with oil and acrylic on canvas and has won international awards here.
„Brillante, zarte, überbordende Spielfreude, Virtuosität, Eleganz. Sprühend, schäumend und vielfältig.“
Bayerischer Rundfunk
Player (komplette CDs & Downloads im Shop)
Videos, Vlogs, Orgelvermittlung, Bachvermittlung, True Crime:
Das neuste von Instagram
Presse & Zitate
“Kulturbotschafterin!”
MDR Thüringen
“Brillante Beethoven-Konzerte!”
Deutsche Radio-Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern
“Bachspezialistin mit Feuer und Intensität!”
Class: aktuell
“Mit innerer Ruhe gespielt, Glut, Gelassenheit, differenziert, unprätentiös.”
Remy Franck, ICMA, Pizzicato Luxemburg
8 Bach-CDs Klavier und Orgel
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Neue CD Biblische Bilder. Neue Orgelklänge. Ambiente Audio20,00 €Includes 19% MwSt.plus shipping -
Soon: Holy Spirit – Organ-CD 2021/2022 – Bach CD Audite20,00 €Includes 19% MwSt.plus shipping -
BACH – Das Wohltemperierte Klavier (Doppel-CD) 201720,00 €Includes 19% MwSt.plus shipping -
BACH – Zwischen Lübeck und Paris: Debüt-Orgel-CD20,00 €Includes 19% MwSt.plus shipping
Romane, Lyrik, Prosa, Poesie
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Lyrik opus 3 – Keine Wolke fällt tiefer als blau, 201912,90 €Includes 19% MwSt.plus shipping -
Frei wie die Vögel – Historischer Roman16,99 €Includes 19% MwSt.plus shipping -
Flügel auf Reisen. Die auf den Tasten tanzt (wahre lustige Erzählungen)18,99 €Includes 19% MwSt.plus shipping -
Lyrik opus 2, Piano-Lyrik, Gedichte14,90 €Includes 19% MwSt.plus shipping
Songs, Jazz, Improvisationen, Kompositionen
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HimlaSång – Himmelslieder, Klavier solo20,00 €Includes 19% MwSt.plus shipping -
Jeden Augenblick (Every Moment) – Songwriting15,00 €Includes 19% MwSt.plus shipping -
Com’ Ann – Jazz-CD, 20 jazzige Songs20,00 €Includes 19% MwSt.plus shipping -
Konzert-Livemitschnitt Melbourne, Australien 2017: Skrjabin, Haydn, Chopin, Improvisationen20,00 €Includes 19% MwSt.plus shipping
Noten und Kompositionen
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Noten für Klavier (Piano-Lyrik 1)20,00 €Includes 19% MwSt.plus shipping -
Noten für Klavier, Orgel, Kammermusik, Gesang (Piano-Lyrik 2)20,00 €Includes 19% MwSt.plus shipping -
EN Noten Pandemic Dance. White Panic for Organ, für Orgel10,00 €Includes 19% MwSt.plus shipping -
Noten für Orgel und Klavier 2019: Stille och Snö. Schwedisch-deutsche, neue Musik18,50 €Includes 19% MwSt.plus shipping
Musikpädagogik, Musikwissenschaft, Bachvermittlung
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Bach berühren. Empirische Studie und Dissertation (Wißner), Vorschau20,00 €Includes 19% MwSt.plus shipping -
Bachvermittlung 2019: Das Demutsprinzip in Bachs Musik und die Wirkung der Kunst der Fuge im Erstkontakt mit Jugendlichen18,00 €Includes 19% MwSt.plus shipping -
Studien zu Bachs Goldberg-Variationen, Magisterarbeit, Magister Artium M.A.48,00 €Includes 19% MwSt.plus shipping
Kunstgalerie (Druck und Originale). Malerei in Musik
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Fernweh – 1. Preis Visual Art Competition Brüssel35,00 €Includes 19% MwSt.plus shipping -
Duft35,00 €Includes 19% MwSt.plus shipping -
The Way35,00 €Includes 19% MwSt.plus shipping -
Seereigen 201925,00 €Includes 19% MwSt.plus shipping
„An outstanding pianist with many awards to her credit.”
Herold Sun Melbourne
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Hervorragende Organistin im Konzert hier in Halverde.
Reinhard Bamming, IVZ, Ibbenbüren, 2022
Orgelkonzert in besonderer Atmosphäre. Sie begeistert nicht nur an der Seifert Orgel.
Heinz Baumann, Die Glocke, Münsterland, Freckenhorst 2022
“Organ meets poetry: Ann-Helena Schlüter enriches the Nürtingen Organ Days 2021 with poetry, her own works, Romanticism and Bach. She is one of the rare artists of her time
pm, NTZ Nürtinger Zeitung 2021
Wechselbad der Gefühle!
Lokale Kultur Nürtingen, Wendlinger Zeitung 2021
Master of the pipes: Ann-Helena Schlüter tours East Westphalia.
Elke Niedringhaus-Haasper, Neue Westfälische, Oktober 2021
Master of the pipes! In order to make the organ palatable also for young people, women and girls, the concert organist resorts to modern means on the net.
Bad Oeynhausener Kurier 2021
Eine Poetin der Orgel. Die renommierte Virtuosin mit Lyrik, Bach als grandiosem Schlusspunkt.
Hans-Günther Driess, NTZ Esslingen/Nürtingen 2021
Geschenk zum Dreikönigsfest: Multitalent Ann-Helena Schlüter begeistert mit einem Konzert.
Bamming, Hopsten. Rheine 2021
Lyrik, Musik, Malerei: Spiritueller Kreuzweg.
adi, Saarbrücker Zeitung 2021
Gleich zweimal konzertierte die Ausnahmemusikerin mit eigenen Gedichten in der Pfalz.
Cordula von Waldow, Zweibrücker Zeitung/Homburger Nachrichten 2021
Vorfreude auf ein wahres Multitalent, die schwedisch-deutsche Künstlerin Ann-Helena Schlüter. So vielfältig kann Orgel sein.
Cordula von Waldow, Pfälzischer Merkur 2021
Multi Talent in Heilig Kreuz. … Abstrakte Gemälde, Live-Stream ins Internet, Lyrik und Musik.
Wille, Die Rheinpfalz. Zweibrücker Rundschau 2021
Geistig-spirituelle Umsetzung des Kreuzweges an der berühmten Rieger-Orgel.
Saarbrücker Zeitung/Pfalz 2021
Außergewöhnliche Forscherin.
Armin Langer 2021, Mozarteum Salzburg/Innsbruck
Thüringer Allgemeine 2021
‘Bach Festival 2021: Bach beckons after long Corona break: Ann-Helena Schlüter gives guest performances in Arnstadt and Dornheim.’
Malfunctioning organ: my second great love.
Zeitzeichen 2021
Cultural ambassador and well-known organist.
MDR Thüringen, 2021
Redemptive sounds in the pandemic. Organ versus Pandemic.
Sunday Saxony Leipzig, 2021
Multi-talented and specialist.
Silke Schmid, Freiburg, 2021
Great musicality.
LB, Audite, 2021
Fresh and innovative organ performance.
Stefan Seidel, 2021
Very touching.
Theophil Heinke, Trost Orgel Thüringen, 2021
Exceptionally beautiful music.
Jens Gerold, Radio Thüringen, 2021
Concert organist and concert pianist, versatile and performing internationally.
Anton Cupak, Online Merker, 2020
Wunderbares Gastspiel. Panischer Pandemie-Tanz auf der Orgel
Janka, OvB, 2020
Ann-Helena Schlüter begeistert Publikum
Gawehns, shz, 2020
Pfeifen in den höchsten Höhen. Beim dritten “Sommerlichen Orgelkonzert” in Erlangen beeindruckte die Organistin Ann-Helena Schlüter
R. Kalb, HEN Kultur, 2020
40. Bochumer Orgeltage: “Ich musste ganz schön Gas geben mit der Orgel” (AHS)
Holger Groß, Stadtspiegel, Lokalkompass 2020
Besinnlicher Orgelabend: Leise und schwere Töne.
Eva Arndt, Walter Fischer, waz Hattingen, 2020
Die Literatin mit ihrem Dreigestirn Musik, Lyrik und visueller Kunst: Es geht unter die Haut.
Heilbronn, Konzert an der Plum-Orgel 2020
Balm for your soul in these straining pandemic times: Contemplative organ evening at Burg Blankenstein with the concert organist.
Eva Arndt, Lokalkompass Hattingen, Bochumer Orgeltage 2020
Virtuoso and heart-warming, an artist at the piano and the organ.
Kampen, Wilhelmshavener Zeitung 2020
Intimately soft registrations in Stade … her own work is a high performance painting of sounds with interesting effects … the middle tones of the organ are very pleasant.
Wolfgang Gourgé, Hamburg 2020
A blessed child in the musical field. I do not know any artist who is still touring so often in Corona times.
Andreas Böttger, BOEGAZIN Magazin 2020
Bach festival 2021: Schlüter playing historical organs
Thüringer Allgemeine 2021
Her composition Pandemic Dance was the highlight of the evening! A charming energy within the church.
Hattinger News 2020
The Bochum organ days very successful and virtuous with the Blankenstein music of the evening with Ann-Helena Schlüter.
Walter Fischer, waz 2020
A fantastic organ concert!
Holger Grosz, Stadtspiegel Hattingen 2020
Pipes in the highest tones. Organist impresses with her own, gentle dissonances in Erlangen.
Reinhard Kalb, Erlanger Nachrichten 2020
Intellectual and emotional organ performance … the pure pleasure of playing, transparent and meticulous at the same time.
R.W., ovb-online.de, 2020
Ann-Helena Schlüter performs at the Bochumer Orgeltagen 2020.
Wolfgang Frase, waz.de, 2020
Ann-Helena Schlüter enthuses the audience.
Kammholz, Fehmarn24, 2020
Deep, virtuoso Bach Passacaglia, intensive, energetic colours!
Rainer Janka, Oberbayerisches Volksblatt Rosenheim, Münchner Merkur 2020
Exceptional talent!
Würzburger Kultur 2020, 2021
Charming rounds, elegant organ performance, shimmering compositions.
Brigitte Wintzen, Heiligenhafener Post 2020
Organ virtuoso: Pandemic Dance – her own, mysterious organ compositions in St. Laurentius Spessart.
A. Wolf, Main-Echo 2020
Impressive radiance, a wonderful concert and mastered Bach’s rhythmic diversity!
Martin Harth, Mainpost, September 2020
Virtuoso organ concert with own compositions and old masters, clearly played.
inFranken, Erlanger Nachrichten 2020
Brilliant Beethoven evening in Möchengladbach, a surprise programme, lively, with a Moonlight sonata played so wonderful, as (I had) seldom heard before.
Holdmeier, Rheinische Post 2020
A package full of grand emotion, talent and personality.
Ari Rasilainen, Dirigent (Finnland) 2020
Himmelskt vackra låtar. Double talent at piano and organ and beautiful own songs.
Svenska Kyrka Starrkärr-Kilanda 2020
The large organ with great range an down words, brought to our attention efficiently and new.
Barbara Glowatzki, Windsheimer Zeitung 2020
Such sounds were never to be heard at the large organ in St. Kilian Bad Windsheim. A very enthusing organ concert and a real highlight in these difficult times.
Fränkische Landeszeitung 2020
Brilliant Beethoven concerts!
Deutsche Radio-Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern 2020
An all-round talent with expressive poetry, chansons and novels.
Hans-Werner Durau, Verlagsleiter SCM-Verlagsgruppe 2020
Bach-Konzert in Arnstadt an der Bach-Orgel und in Dornheim: Poesie an der Orgel auf dem Bach-Festival.
Rondomagazin 2020
Concert in Hamm: Her compositions reflect her as a musician and human, a fascinating, touching, new world of sound, literature and music. While performing Mozart, the organ sounded like a glass harp. Organist and instrument became one. Blessed.
Sebastian Kaldewey, Westfälischer Anzeiger 2020
Diverse and competent expert jury in cooperation with the Bechstein Centre and the scholastic centre for the musically gifted.
Neumann/Berner-Stiftung Frankfurt am Main 2020
Bachs Kunst der Fuge als besinnliches Orgelkonzert und Poesie in Heiligenstadt. Hochformat! Als Zugabe eigene Werke mit schwedischen Melodien.
Fränkischer Tag November 2019
Impressive concert reading by the author on the four martyrs, on Fallbeil, hope, faith: free as the birds.
Ostfriesenzeitung und Wecker Leer November 2019
“Great virtuoso on the organ. Impressive contrasts. Bach and her own expressive compositions with vigorous energy, technique and delicacy.”
Rainer Sliepen, Wolfenbütteler Zeitung Oktober 2019
‚Vivid colours, virtuoso performance at the concert of 30 Jahre Sauer-Orgel.’
Krafczyk, Ostthüringer Zeitung OTZ Oktober 2019
‚A full house, standing ovations, brilliant and virtuoso organ performance of the organist and pianist in Schriesheim.’
Katharina Schröder, Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung Region Heidelberg 2019
‚Peace Culture: Ann-Helena Schlüter and her novel Free as the Birds: Peace Motivates Thinkers and Artists. Recommendable and movingly narrated.”
EKD.de (Evangelische Kirche Deutschland) 2019
‘Delightful and vibrantly poetic!’
Manuela Neumann, Class: aktuell zur neuen Bach-CD FANTASIAS & DUETTS
‘She is a synthesis of art: Bach’s Musical Sacrifice played with inner calmness, finely differentiated, unpretentious, authentic, exhaling embers and serenity.’
Remy Franck, ICMA, Pizzicato Luxemburg zur neuen CD und Interview
‘Excellent performer: the German-Swedish organist and pianist in Curinga, southern Italy, in her organ recital at the Marienkirche Terme Romane di Curinga on the historic Tamburelli organ from 1845.’
Cesare Natale Cesareo, Curinga-in.it 2019
‚Brilliant organist!‘
Salvatore Pronesti, Pizzo, Italien (Organist und Orgelbauer)
“Great literary potential.”
Glaré-Verlag Frankfurt am Main 2020
‚Master class pianist in Heilbronn‘
Newstral Böckingen 2020
‚Fascinating variety of sound and a glamorous concert: brilliant organ playing on the large cathedral organ with 3500 pipes and a glittering performance on the Steinway by the young German-Swedish pianist and organist. The visitors rose from their benches and thanked the extraordinary talent with minutes of applause.’
Werner Volkmar, Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung 2019
‚An extraordinary artist at the organ!’
Mannheimer Morgen 2019
‚One of those exceptional artists who were, at all times, very hard to find.’
Jürgen Ahnend Orgelbau 2020
‚Masterly, brillant, sensitive performance.‘
Märkische Allgemeine Brandenburg 2019
‚Dances on the keys! Great creative energy, emotional performance.’
Nürnberger Nachrichten 2019
‚Top-class Bach performer.‘
NDR Kultur 2019
‘Poetry, sensitive music and their common artistic poetry:
Prof. Dr. Siegfried Zimmer, Ludwigsburg 2019
I marvel at the musical, poetic talents of this artist!”
“Reading and music: humorous observations of a successful pianist, autobiographical short stories, amazing variations, profound technique also in writing.”
Berliner Woche 2019
“A Versatile artist.”
Gabi Szarvas, Saarländischer Rundfunk Kulturradio SR 2020
“Alle Register und fein-fragile Kunst. Orgeltalent beeindruckte. Intensives, musikalisches Empfinden, eine Fülle von Schönheit, ereignisreiches Konzert.”
Irmgard Baur, Nordbayerischer Kurier
‚The highlight of the day was a great experience: a wonderful book presentation in Berlin!’
Morgenpost und Tagesspiegel Berlin
‚The classical concert at the Academy of Music in Bethlehem and at the Talitha Kumi Chapel Beit Jala was brillant, also her teaching.’
Reem Handal, Talitha Kumi Beit Jala, Palestine
‘Highly talented and exceptional pianist.‘
Prof. Bernd Glemser
‚Bach’s Goldberg Variations in an extraordinary form, a colourful sound experience at Michael-Praetorius-Platz in front of 400 people.’
Braunschweiger Zeitung 2019
‘Bensheim Organ Weeks in the Michaelskirche: you can’t get more versatile in musicality than organist and artist Ann-Helena Schlüter. In matters Bach, a real address.’
Bergsträßer Anzeiger Bensheim 2018
‚Master organist Ann-Helena Schlüter played works by Bach and Liszt’s B-A-C-H alongside her own compositions in the masterful concert on the 2nd Sunday of Lent in Lauingen.’
Nachrichten Dillingen 2019
‚Leipzig live: Bach and Beethoven perfectly played in the festival hall of the Gohliser Schlösschen, unpretentious, poetic, clear and with little pedal.’
Mathias Orbeck, Leipziger Volkszeitung
‘Unfinished and brilliant: pianist Ann-Helena Schlüter and Bach’s Kunst der Fuge (Art of the Fugue). Unsurpassed, mysterious, and also the Swedish-German Steinway and Schumann Prize winner.’
Soester Anzeiger
‘Synthesis of art and still much to expect.’
Hendrik Ahrend, Orgelfirma Ahrend, Orgelbauer, 2020
‚Top-class concert in the Jacobikirche Döbeln. The former Glemser student is enchanting.’
LVZ 2018
“Masterly music: the renowned concert pianist and organist Ann-Helena Schlüter travelled to the Danube by invitation and made her debut in the Albert Magnus City in a highly acclaimed concert.”
Gideon Zoryiku, Donau Zeitung 2019
“Composer at St. Nicolai Bad Blankenburg: brilliant, contemporary, own poetry, warm-toned sound splendour.”
maha, Ostthüringer Zeitung
“International classical music with Ann-Helena Schlüter in Stadtoldendorf: the classical music fans of the region were able to enjoy an excellent concert on Bach’s birthday during the summer holidays.”
r, TAH
‚200 artists from 32 countries are competing in this year’s international ARD competition in Munich. The young Schlüter Duo, the two Schlüter sisters from Nuremberg, are participating!’
Eckart Querner, Tagesthemen/Rundschau München
‘Powerful, expressive, poetic. Master diploma concert pianist with brilliant technique: in romantic as well as baroque music.’
Prof. Hermann Rauhe, Hamburg
‘West Leipzig has a good reputation culturally. The pianist Ann-Helena Schlüter reads and plays in the HelHEIM and talks about Bach: Listening to Bach is healthy for the soul. In portrait.’
Ray Voltez, 3viertel Leipzig
‚Musical all-round talent in Egrenzingen: music and poetry fertilised by each other – the artist peformed in Haus Anker Altensteig and at the Liebfrauenhöhe: music serving as a bridge to God.’
Dieter Braun, Schwarzwälder Bote
“Sensational multi-award winning German-Swedish pianist makes her Melbourne Concert Debut in outstanding performances.”
The Guardian Australia
‘An exceptional combination of talents.‘
Roland Kunz, SR und SRW 2020
‚Praising God through all tones: concert in the Main valley, the Würzburg organist and pianist at the Orgeltag 2016. Crazy for Bach!’
frm, Hanauer Anzeiger
‘Of roots and wings: Masterfully played Bach fugues with great musical differentiation from the Nuremberg-born organist. Bach has power, she says.’
Magdalena Hechtel, Neustädter Zeitung 2018
‘The award-winning, linguistically gifted pianist delighted young and old.’
Döbelner Allgemeine Zeitung 2018
‘Bach’s Kunst der Fuge (Art of the Fugue): On Easter Sunday, the artful fabric of fugue art performed on the grand piano with great seriousness and heartfelt enthusiasm: weightless and reflected interpretation.’
Beate Krannich, Gmünder Tagespost
‚The artist knows how to touch the audience deeply with intimate and emotional playing.’
‘Poetry with music at Burkardushaus: a poet teaches verse, rhythm, rhyme and poetry.’
Ralph Heringlehner, Mainpost Würzburg 2019
‘Double talent at the organ and piano at the Riddagshäuser Orgelsommer!’
Braunschweiger Kultur 2018
‘I will follow this musician with great interest.’
Prof. Hans-Ola Ericsson (Schweden), McGill University Kanada 2019
‚Top-class pianist.‘
PIANONews
‘Admirable sovereignty and at the same time hardly restrained joy of playing and exuberance.’
Rene Karich, Deutsches Christliches Fernsehen, Leipzig (dcf)
‘She transports mood and sound with poetry and proves her true mastery here.’
Johanna Greß, Leipzig lauscht.de
‘You left the concert with the feeling that you had seen more than one concert. A refreshment! The young pianist played with exquisite suppleness. It was a pleasure to watch her.’
Erna Rauscher-Steves, SWT, Schweinfurt
“She is influenced by distinguished teachers in Germany, accomplished many degrees, is teaching, is a much sought after concert pianist and extends her artistic talents into writing and concert organ. Classically alive.”
Hans Schroeder, Australian Bach Society Melbourne
‚This artist radiates from within, a creative super talent, a bridge builder! With the encore, the virtuoso jazz piece Memphis Stomp by Dave Grusin, Ann-Helena Schlüter thrilled her audience.’
Renate Freyeisen, Leporello 2018
‘Being a bold bridge for young people!’
BNN
‘Gifted pianist in Heiligenstadt, her hands dance on the keys! Artistic knowledge in her hands and a tender touch.’
Katja Tschirwitz, Fränkischer Tag, Fränkische Landeszeitung
‘Master class pianist with lightness and tenderness. The pianist also made a bella figura as a lecturer: the top-class guest gave a concert, the hall was stock-still.’
Ahlener Zeitung
‚She plays the Goldberg Variations as a piece of art completed in itself.’
Prof. Christoph Bossert, HfM Würzburg, zur Bach-CD
‚The poet and artist Ann-Helena Schlüter is considered an authority on the keyboard works of Bach; she often features her own compositions on her concert programs.’
San Francisco Chronicle 2018
‚Piano monumental: you like listening to her own compositions very much, an eruptive rambling.‘
Corinna Ries, Sachsen Fernsehen Leipzig
‚Musical notes who receive wings: the artist performs on the Landesgartenschau in the open air on the Himmelsterrasse (heaven terrace).’
Bad Essen, noz.de
‚Beethoven in perfection: she is young, unconventional, creative and enthused her audience.’
Anja Seeberg, Wochenkurier Hagen und waz.de
‚A demanding, highly virtuosic concert at the Leipzig Academy of Music on the Steinway B and in the Gohliser Schlösschen – she has recorded eight CDs since 2009; musicology and musical education are other focal points of her life.’
Stefan Seidel, Sonntag-Sachsen.de
‘Effortless, inexhaustible organ playing with brilliant piano technique.’
Domleschger Zeitung Graubünden, Thusis 2019
‘Keyboard Playing: Ann-Helena Schlüter in class with children, young people and adults. The pianist made the large group listen to each other until the knot to creativity burst.’
Katharina Erschov, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
‘Ann-Helena Schlüter started with her melodic art already at the age of four years.’
Susanne Hanke, Hannoversche Allgemeine
‚Devoted and unconventional composer.‘
TVMainfranken
‚Her concert was a highlight! Impressive hours with Bach.’
Fürther Nachrichten 2018
‚Highly virtuoso piano performance in the Bergkirche Bahlingen! Started at the age of four already, an exciting curriculum. She enthused her audience.’
‚From the treasure Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of the Fugue) in Meissenheim – an evening targeted to Bach’s music.’
Christiane Franz, Badische Zeitung 2017, 2018
“An outstanding pianist with many awards to her credit. Her artistic talents include lyrics and even painting.”
Herald Sun Melbourne
‚As Bach is her heart’s composer, his preludes and fugues are logically psalms for her. Her interpretation of the WTK I is full of grace and inventiveness. Making music without limits- the many faces of Ann-Helena Schlüter.’
Naxos Blog, Salvatore
“Beautiful Bach.”
Jens F. Laurson, Forbes @ Classical Critic
‚Plain, clear, spirited performance.‘
Crescendo Magazin für Klassik
‚She is a synthesis of art.’
Prof. Dr. Peter Lampe, Universität Heidelberg
‚In the end, Bach’s beauty and effervescent charm remain in your memory. Glowing and thrillingly impulsive.’
Kreuzer, Leipzig 2018
‘Every generation searches anew for J.S. Bach. Ann-Helena Schlüter has succeeded. Her interpretation is comparable to Barenboim.‘
Fono Forum/CLASS 2017
‘Winged words as a language of the soul.’
Detlef M. Plaisier, Lesekabinett Leipzig
‚How well the two work together – music and poetry, this could once again be heard live on Saturday at the Landesgartenschau in Bad Essen. The concert was recorded and broadcast on OS Radio with a time delay. This gave the notes wings towards the weekend. Whoever wants to fly along: Ann-Helena will gladly take everyone along. The Himmelsterrasse: a large terrace built exclusively for the Landesgartenschau at the edge of the forest of the new Bad Essen Kur- und Solepark with a magnificent view: this place connects heaven and earth in an unusual and at the same time very specific way.’
Imma Schmidt, Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung
‘Young Würzburg woman in the big classical world. The audience marvelled at her dexterity: virtuoso Bach and contemplative organ reveries. Her moderations on Bach’s life are touching. She builds a closeness to the audience with her personality.’
gizo, Mainpost Kultur. Würzburg, Gemünden, Karlstadt am Main 2018
‘Exceptional organist performed on the Silbermann organ with local musicians.’
Paul-Georg Weber, Lahrer Zeitung 2018
‚Her CDs are very good, on a high musical level! Raw, original. Her voice has a high recognition factor, authentic, Nordic and is high-level.’
Volker Grüner, musik & message
‚Gifted pianist and exceptional poet – the Swedish language in her melodies.’
M. Hussong, Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung
‚Concert revenues for the refugee aid – a beneficial concert with an exceptional talent and radiance. The mayor was present, too. The audience was able get inspired.’
Daniel Junker, Astrid Köhler, Hannoversche Allgemeine
“Bach expert and ‘Bach’s girl’ gives a guest performance: she specialized in the works of Bach. In the Thomaskirche Aulendorf she played brilliantly under the theme Soli Deo Gloria.”
MAR, Schwäbische Zeitung
‘A very good four-handed performance: The duo Ann-Helena and Magdalena Schlüter ran away from all the others with high virtuosity.’
Georg Bochardt, Die Welt
‘Newcomer of the year!’
Ralf Duggen, Festival Umsonst & Draussen Würzburg
‚No doubt about it: young virtuoso keyboard tigers, Ann-Helena and Magdalena Schlüter, played clearly, stylistically confident and with a dashing tempo.’
hk, Stadtanzeiger Bad Dürkheim
‚Language and music, the siblings in the field of communication, meet in the poetry and music of Ann-Helena Schlüter. ‚Language and music, the siblings in the field of communication, meet in the poetry and music of Ann-Helena Schlüter. Both are connected by the longing for the timeless state of lightness, the dream of floating with wings – or on wings of songs, like birds. Vividness, imagination and the joy of discovery in their ‘attempt on the true kind’! I wish for a clairaudient audience as a sounding board!’
Prof. Arne Torger, Weimar, Würzburg
‘Bühl: Her skills are remarkable. Mozart sonatas were masterfully interpreted. She is spot on in terms of poetry and music.’
Kirschner, Badisches Tagblatt
‚A bridge between classical music and young people – a musician since her early childhood, full of energy and music.’
FRIZZ Magazin Würzburg
‚A versatile and splendidly educated artist.’
Prof. Torsten Laux, Düsseldorf
“Virtuose Hände, lange blonde Haare, ein schönes Lächeln und mit Gott in Kontakt – die Pianistin Ann-Helena Schlüter, deren Tag mehr als 24 Stunden zu haben scheint.”
Inge Wollschläger, Evangelisches Sonntagsblatt aus Bayern 2018
‚Exquisite, inciting, strikingly cheerful and lighthearted performance. Fire woman.’
Paul-Georg Weber, Löbauer Zeitung
‘Winged words as a soul language. Art stories and poetry; first you have to feel, experience before you write, says the poet.’
Kerstin Schorpp, Mainpost Würzburg
‚The piano duo performed brilliantly and emotional in the music hall.’
Heinz Forgber, Hamburger Abendblatt
‚Unsurpassable music found in Bach, an intelligent, spiritual woman, quasi born to be a professional musician.’
Dr. Ute Zintarra, ERF Medien, Calando Radio
‚As pianist at the Rudert-Festival, and now performing Bach’s Kunst der Fuge (Art of the Fugue) on the queen of instruments: an impressive experience in the Tabor Church.’
Hele, Schwarzwälder Bote 2017
‚World class at the piano.’
Neue Oberaargauer Zeitung, Schweiz)
‚Ann-Helena Schlüter is one of the classical music stars of the present time. The frequent traveler and piano virtuoso with German-Swedish roots carrying books in her piano case feels Leipzig’s history ‘in the air’ when she is in town. ‘Art will always prevail’.’
Volly Tanner, FRIZZ Magazin Leipzig und Tanners Terrasse Leipzig
‘Enthusiastic applause for spicy pointed and effective playing.’
Otto Strodel, Fränkische Landeszeitung
‘Against the current: the young literary artist at the Kunstverein Arnsberg. Brushstrokes, letters, musical notes: unification.‘
Michael Schenk, Sauerlandkurier
‚Very musical performer of great compositions.’
Markus Popp, Dirigent, Würzburg, Mainfrankentheater
‘The organist captivated her audience with Bach’s Wohltemperiertes Klavier (Well-Tempered Clavier) on the organ in Rottenburg for sacred evening music.’
Theresa Müller, Stuttgarter Zeitung 2018
‘The pianist seems to almost feel the music: In the Sandgathe hall, the internationally successful artist played Beethoven, Chopin, Bach and her own pieces on the Steinway. An evening with the attribute valuable!’
Vorhelm, Ahlen 2019
‘An exceptional talent!’
Kölner Stadtanzeiger
‚Exuberant joy of playing, virtuosity, elegance.’
Bayerischer Rundfunk
‚Graceful performance, a natural, spontaneous musicality.’
Prof. Martin Zenck, Bamberg/Würzburg
‚Classics, too, mostly remained within the fields they were attached to – faithful to the work, no improvisation. Ann-Helena Schlüter is moving in both worlds: She is a trained classical pianist, an excellent one, as evidenced by a multitude of awards. But she is also a singer/songwriter. The artist studied at the conservatories/universities of Cologne, Detmold, Phoenix, Würzburg, Leipzig, gives concerts worldwide, in Ireland, Sweden, Scotland, Russia.’
Elke Brunhöber, HAZ
“Excellent feel, poetic and dramatic, delicate, natural.”
Martin Linde, MDR, Tonmeister
“An extraordinary evening of music with verve and sensitivity: she philosophized using her fingers, a keyboard poet and master of the nuances.”
A. Holtfort, LN Lübecker Nachrichten
‚Masterly, fresh like spring and exuberant, serenely cheerful performance, rewarded with much applause.’
Beate Waltz, Trossinger Zeitung
‘The young exceptional artist transports atmosphere, proves her true mastery here. With exuberant, fiery runs that took up the entire scale of the grand piano, it was always about storytelling which was effected with admirable sovereignty. Her own compositions at the end of the concert spoke for themselves.’
Josef Riedmann, Osthessen-Zeitung
‘Liszt and poetry on Cologne’s homepage: Some people have a curriculum vitae that leaves you speechless. This young pianist is one of them. And she continues to decorate her biography with successes.’
Klaus Limbacher, Kölnische Rundschau
‘Singing cantilenas with an intimate melodiousness: The audience applauded encores at the Staatsbad. Musical art of a special kind by the sought-after soloist in the Franconian Forest. Pianist of world renown in the Kurhaussaal Bad Steben.‘
Reinhold Singer, Frankenpost
‚Always practising, writing and practising in alternate sequence: the author generation Ann-Helena Schlüter.’
Barbara Horn, Plärrer Stadtmagazin Nürnberg
‚Heavenly Tones and the epic work Wohltemperiertes Klavier by Bach, her favourite composer. She mastered the monumental work with great virtuosity.’
Süddeutsche
‘The final performance and highlight of the Kunst-Werk week in Lungern, Switzerland of the artist movement Das Rad was the vernissage with piano music and their works.’
B. Scheidegger, Lungener WB
‘You could almost physically feel the turmoil and tumult in her playing of Chopin, then the movement of the waves and the power of the tides … The spark was lit and the pianist surprised with her vocals. She proved not only to be an excellent piano player, but also to have a soft, carrying voice as she sang and played her own songs at the end.’
Guy-Pascal Dorner, Südkurier Ravensburg
‚ … fascinating moments with glass, light and sound: the highlight on Saturday was the piano concert by pianist Ann-Helena Schlüter from Würzburg. She captivated the also the young visitors with classical piano pieces by Bach, Chopin and Haydn as well as her own compositions, songs, poems and improvisations. Her poems were particularly moving. She accompanied the audience until well into the evening twilight, so that with the illumination of the artworks in the garden art complex, a fascinating atmosphere was created that enchanted everyone. ‘
Kultur-Schaufenster Höxter/Lütmarsen
‚Never have we seen anybody playing the piano with such dexterity. She does not only play, she feels the music and creates goose-bumps at the audience. One could think Frèdèric Chopin had written his ballads just for her.’
Fabian Welke, leguano-Interview 2019
“Ann-Helenas Talent als profilierte, klassische Pianistin zeigt sich in ihren Liedern. Diese begabte, junge Frau hat eine internationale Zukunft vor sich.”
Marion Warrington, Aufatmen
“A very talented artist, set wide, excellent.”
Patrick Kavanaugh, Founder Masterworks Festival USA
‚Concertante author reading: Taken into unusually luminous and bizarre worlds of sound in language and composition.’
ANN, Abendzeitung Nürnberg
“… New musical discovery! Delicate and strong at the same time!
Malte Wördemann, Wittlager Kreisblatt
… delicate, dramatic, beautiful, weightless…’
‘Stadt-Kultur: Kulturtage im Weingut: Chopin ballads resound, played extremely impressive with very sensitive antennas.’
Monika Dietz, Volksblatt
‘A female Keith Jarrett at the grand piano, a voice like Björk. Slender fingers, small hands, sound poetry at the highest level.’
Conny Reusch, Neue Westfälische
‚Die Konzertsaison ist in vollem Gang, heute Gera, morgen Uelzen, übermorgen die Bankenmetropole, dann Leipzig und Magdeburg. Zum Gespräch erwischt man sie auf der Zugfahrt.‘
Dominik Röding, Tiepolo Mainpost
‚Concert stories, poetic, humorous, piano power.’
Britta Gansebohm, Salonkultur Berlin
‚German-Swedish artist from a family of musicians combines high musical competence and professional creativity, own Nordic piano compositions, classical music to dream and wonder, amazing lyricist. The prize-winner thrilled the audience in a live performance; her skill and her way touched: an emotional heart moving the keys.’
maz, Appenzeller Zeitung, Schweiz
‘Powerful and cautious at the same time, Ann-Helena Schlüter traverses the interwoven boundaries between language, poetry and music and their shared artistic poetry.’
Prof. Heike Henning, Mozarteum Salzburg 2019
‘Conversation concert Bach’s Kunst der Fuge (Art of the Fugue) – after her concert at the 47th Bach Days, the young Bach expert touched her audience with explanations of Bach’s life.’
Mathias Wiedemann, Mainpost Würzburg
‚Creating a dramatic painting of sounds with dynamic contrasts, excellent with spiritual permeation, at the same time swinging and uncomplicated on the grand piano. Well, if you are so gifted…’ is one of the admiring intermission comments from visitors.’
Alfred Eichhorn, Hersbrucker Land
‘Her texts are excellently written, exciting and suggestive. In ‘Free as the Birds’: the whole horror in the Third Reich becomes evident, an important book against forgetting.’
Dr. Else Pelke, Historikerin 2019
‘In addition to technical skill, the Schlüter piano duo of sisters Ann-Helena and Magdalena Schlüter demonstrated a keen sense of agogic and dynamics, homogeneous playing, delicate and spirited. A pleasure to listen to, a duo excellently attuned to each other, everything from one cast.’
Helmut Jasny, Nürnberger Nachrichten
‘There was a premiere in the Martinskirche and the Anti-War House in Sievershausen/Hanover: for the first time, there was a piano concert there. The versatile artist, highly gifted, classically trained in several master classes, also presented her own works.’
Walter Klinger, Lehrte/Sievershausen
‘Her artistic skills are so numerous that it is better to read them off. Piano poetry at its best. Both sides of her, poetry and music, are worth seeing and hearing.’
Literarisches Leben, Autorenverband Franken
She lives for and from art. Only one percent of all music college graduates manage that. For women, this is even harder. As she says: ‘God is the greatest artist’. A piece of her life is in her notes. A big piece.”
BR, Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung
‚Her great love is music.’
Mickey Wiese, Issuu.com
‚A poetic night: the poet and pianist showed language art and imagination in an original way, a secret star.’
Westfalen Blatt, Zeitung für Enger, Westfalenpost, Westfälisches Literaturbüro Unna
‚Culture Hohenlohe: she is the future of classical music. Wide musical variety, sound, fiery, profound knowledge.’
Ingrid Heydecke-Seidel, stimme.de/Hohenlohe
‚An exceptional artist.‘
Johannes Warth
‚Art is her thing, in all facets: poems, songs, paintings – and especially piano. And she does all with a charming smile.’
Piera Reich, Aufatmen Magazin
‚Bach’s last work of fugues in Rysum: Under the motto Flying Bach, the pianist played an impressive concert themed “World Classics”: music, lust for life and passion, masterfully interpreted.’
Kreiszeitung Rysum
‘Ann-Helena Schlüter writes with empathy – in our inner eye we are with her, in the prison cells, on the last metres to the guillotine.’
Jochen Proske, Referent Erzbischöfliche Stiftung Lübecker Märtyrer und Archiv
‘Intensiv interpretation av svensk musik.‘
Sommarkyrkoguiden Sverige
‘From the residential town of Detmold: accomplished pianist, finely graduated tone, profound pianistic ability.’
Multhaupt, Lippische Landes-Zeitung
‘Every year is a milestone in her development, always reaching head and heart, church music becoming music.’
Ralf Wieland, Mara Events
‘Piano Liturgy. Songs of Heaven. Concert Service. Song sermons. The musical service: chorales under a new guise, songs to think about and sing along with, pieces from one’s own pen, a fine feeling for melodies. Ecumenical meeting places. Topics of her piano sermons include: How does it feel to live as a musician with God? What is the difference between performance and excellence?’
Katholische Hochschulgemeinde Würzburg
‘Heavenly tones. Masterful playing! Faithful and award-winning pianist and musicologist in Leipzig! Her works downright blossom, glassy and pearly, very fine arpeggios.’
Elim Magazin Leipzig 2017
‘German culture on the grand piano: Ann-Helena Schlüter, who simultaneously writes her own sensitive songs and improvises on Bach, fine and intense at the piano – she kisses new things awake, memories and thoughts. A comforting, bright voice between his hands at the piano.’
Andreas Prangenberg, Luke Ludwigsburg 2017
‚Rich in imagery, vivid, very intense language, and entertaining – the stories really come to life in your mind’s eye when she writes. Great writing talent with good, important texts!’
Hagen Kunze, Musikwissenschaftler und Autor 2018
‘Shepherd’s Flute and Root Dwarf – the littlest ones at the piano, the joy of playing was in the foreground, the two youngest up-and-coming pianists in her piano class were just three years old.’
Ulrike Kiesel, Stadtmagazin Nürnberg
‚Virtuoso duet of sisters at the grand piano!’
ARD, Tagesschau und Rundschau
‚Tempo, confident, a high-altitude flight, a mature interpretation.’
Ferdinand Heilgenthal, Kleine Zeitung
‚In their deeper meaning, her texts reveal an ironically deconstructive game of catch ball with reality, thus questioning the binding nature of linguistically graspable truth that is postulated as objective: an author from whom a lot is yet to come due to her intelligence, power of language and competence.’
Dr. Reinhard Kacianka, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt 2017 zum 1. Preis Villacher Literaturwettbewerb
‘There is an art that is soft, delicate and strong: heavenly songs by this pianist. The young musician describes music as a gift from God with which she bestowes to others.”
Ines Weber, Lydia Magazin 2018
‘Best in class Bach: Bach as an event. The Würzburg pianist distinguishes herself with Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, not Rachmaninoff on Hänssler Classic.’
CLASS aktuell Germany 2017
‚The future of classical music – the Schlüter concept: creative, reputable, multi-award-winning, tongue-in-cheek.’
Martin Perscheid, Cartoonist
‘Passion for Bach:
Kerstin Hänssler, Hänssler Classic 2017
Ann-Helena Schlüter presents her view of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier I on the hänssler CLASSIC label.
Her relationship with the composer Bach has shaped the pianist’s musical career like no other:
As an artist, she sees herself as a master of illumination and directs the attention, the light: This means for me: more listening than acting. Eventually, acting is a matter of course. I open up my own world to the listeners, not mine. I open up a world in which they discover and hear their own: Their own wonders, spaces, wishes and feelings.’
‚Confident, individual ways of songwriting with groovy sounds and jazz elements.’
Ralf Buck, Charisma
“No cloud falls lower than blue:
Kurt Drawert, Schriftsteller / Zentrum Literatur Darmstadt
This verse from a new poem metaphorically sums up what her texts intend: to view the idyll of nature upside down, out of its own negation, thus pointing to the transience of human existence. She succeeds in making poetic breaks and rearrangements in the observation of everything seemingly familiar, combined with a good feeling for rhythm and lyrical form. Her poems are pictorial, hallucinatory, as if intoxicated, are sound, music translated, a wondering look at today’s world with cracks.”
“In strong and delicate lines, the musician, who plays on every continent, expresses her thoughts, her skills and her feelings in music and poetry. Musical and literary double talent. Looking back and looking forward at the same time. A great artist.”
Neue Oberaargauer Zeitung, Schweiz
‚A star in contemporary classical music. A linguistic and musical piece of art.’
BZ-Ticket.de
‚A very talented woman.‘
Nicola Vollkommer, Autorin
‘An organ has to warm up first, while a grand piano can erupt immediately, only to disappear again in a whispering fog. But even a large church organ can become a chamber music instrument when a grand piano tames it.’
Daniel Staffen, neun7 Würzburg
‘Ann-Helena Schlüter is at home in the professional classical music scene, an artist who expresses her thoughts in delicate text pictures and beautiful melodies.
Gerth Medien
Concert pianist of German-Swedish origin breaks new musical ground: songs from the midst of life, in German, English and Swedish.’
‚Bach artist at two instruments.‘
Leipziger Lokal- und Universitäts-Radio Mephisto
‚A top-class piano experience!’
Lohrer Echo
‚The audience experiences a concert event full of sparkling and dreamy music and thought-provoking interludes. The pianist sings her own songs on the piano, the instruments are an equal part of the pieces. Through the synergy of the interplay, a new, further dimension emerges during the improvisation: music out of the inspiration of the moment, drawing value from its uniqueness, the creativity of a third party, expression of the golden ratio, which shows itself in the proportions of creation, music and art.’
Annekatrin Warnke, Christsein heute
‘A gifted personality, a very characteristic voice, honest lyrics, authentic songs, should be heard on the big radio stations.’
Heiko Bräuning, Pfarrer, Fernsehgottesdienst Bibel TV, Stunde des Höchsten
‚An enormous range of creative and artistic performance … she lives music with all facets, breathes in and indulges in the musical notes which gather before her.’
Herbert Heuscher, hervorragend.ch
‚A passionate piano evening, a recital of power and virtuosity: Liszt, Beethoven and Bachs Chromatic.’
Basellandschaftliche Zeitung 2018
‚Bach’s girl: she burns for Bach, gives international concerts and writes her doctor’s thesis.’
Ramona Eibach, Idea Spektrum 2018 und idealisten.net
“The young talented german pianist Ann-Helena with wide repertoire and versatility plays around Europe and the world.”
Prof. Walter Cosand, Arizona State University, USA
‚New sounds from a very different direction.’
Tobi Grimm, Radio Gong Würzburg
‚Drawing intense paintings, individual perspective, up-to-date, soothing, reality of life.’
Lektorat Verlag 3.0
‚A gifted pianist, an extraordinary poet who has developed her very own way of expressing her thoughts and feelings. With a light hand, she conjures up the fifth evangelist Bach on the piano. She writes: His music is that of consolation. His music stretches towards heaven.’
Martina Eibach, Antenne ERF TV 2018
‘Chopin pianist on the grand piano: expressive, almost breathless, the powerful and virtuoso performance of the young artist to marvel at: technically brilliant, expressive, uninhibited. It is impressive how she masters the whirlwind of cantabile gestures with striking octave cascades and fierce running. Reading excerpts from her curriculum vitae, one is awestruck by her parentage and the many awards she has won. Breathtaking how she intercepts wild passages in the mezzo piano. In the coda, an artful compositional climax, she offers up everything in brilliance.’
Heydecke, Hohenloher Zeitung
“Himlasång – Himmelslieder: The very well attended recital at the grand piano of the Spitalkirche Öhrigen with the pianist Ann-Helena Schlüter, organised by the catholic parish St Joseph, with Bach, Chopin, Beethoven and her own compositions, the Himmelslieder, enthused.”
Der Öhringer, Stadtmagazin
“World class at the grand piano. The Spitalkirche has never heard anything like this – the artist appears modest and natural, moderates the evening almost breathlessly and spontaneously, appears uncomplicated and authentic, accurate, virtuosic and expressive on the grand piano, from Hiob to Himmelslieder, plus Bach, Chopin, Beethoven – immersed!”
Hersfelder Zeitung, Neuenstein
“She is a creative Musician and Worshiper in the church.”
Kaspars Ezerin, Latvia
“Restrained and at the same time emotionally forceful, Schlüter in Hohenroth- an outstanding concert in an unusual duo line-up, musically sensitive, excellent compositions by Ann-Helena Schlüter.”
Ulf Kampfmeier, Mainpost und Fränkisches Volksblatt
“Intensive Art, alles mit Klang zu füllen.”
Lothar Reichel, Radio Charivari
“Geschmeidig beginnt sie, streichelt beim Übergreifen im poetischen Teil die Tasten, meistert alle Tücken wie Oktavskalen und Trillerketten.”
Hour of Power
“In den Solo-Stücken zeigte sich die Virtuosität der Pianistin, die auch eigene Lieder und Jazz spielt.”
Dr. Apostolov, Charivari 102,4
“Die schwedisch-deutsche Autorin mit besonderer Stärke in Lyrik in Wort und Musik, schönem, zarten, großartigem, dichtem lyrischen Erzählen in der Prosa, ausdrucksstarken Bildern, sie schafft Zugang zu verborgenen, inneren Räumen, reißt Sehnsüchte auf, zeigt das Reden, Säuseln ihrer Figuren: Literatur auf hohem Niveau: Ihre Texte sind beeindruckende Kunstwerke und Kleinode.”
Christian Meyer, Chef-Lektor Fontis Verlag Basel 2017
“Mit Tasten gewebte Musik: Das herausragendste Instrumentalwerk Bachs, die Kunst der Fuge, von dieser Pianistin wunderschön eingespielt, hochkomplexes Gewebe zum Staunen.”
Jonathan Steinert, pro Medienmagazin 2017
“Very fine European musician and composer.”
Bert Robledo, Radio Manila, Philippinen
“Ihre neue CD Com’Ann: vielseitig, absolut genial, fast schwedisch- französischer Piano-Chansons, emotionales Kunstwerk. Unkonventionell, für zweifellos anspruchsvolle Hörer. Sehr hörenswert.”
Andreas Schwemmlein, Presse CVJM Bayern
“Piano Songs in Hannover: Die Pianistin mischt klassische Werke mit modernen Eigenkompositionen, ein Tongewölbe, begeisternd, in der besonderes Akustik der großen Arkade.”
Siegfried Müller, ARKADIA Hannover
“Beautiful compositions, personal songs, very beautiful and original, very fine piano playing.”
Acueil Music, Paris, Miguel Yisrael
“Es gibt Hingucker! Und Hinhörer! Stücke, Arrangements und Texte stammen aus ihrer Feder. Sie sitzt am Flügel und an den Keyboards. Und sie singt. Das alles ist von ungewöhnlicher Intensität.
Jürgen Werth, ERF Vorstand, Werthe Gäste
Ann-Helena — diesen Namen sollte man sich merken!”
“In der St. Michaelskirche: Ann-Helena Schlüter faszinierte mit romantischer Orgelmusik, Bach und eigenen Werken.”
Rödelsee, infranken
“Neues Highlight auf dem Rudert-Festival: Schlüter-Duo und Familienharmonie: Vier Hände tanzten über die Tasten.”
hpz, Südwest-Presse
“She excelled as a performer, superb pianism, a rare-to-find passion and love for the music, displaying a strong sense for great instrumental repertoire.”
Prof. Eckart Sellheim, Arizona State University, USA
“Sie weckt das gesamte Gefühlsspektrum von zart, heiter, bestimmt, leicht, einfühlsam, legt sie vertrauensvoll in die Herzen des Publikums.”
Johanna Frank, Kultur- und Bildungsagentur, posiTV
“Bad Bocklet: Die Pianistin spielte im Pavillon: Klangvolle Reise, glasklare Schlussklänge.”
pau, Mainpost
“Biedenkopf: Ungewöhnliche, extravagante Klangbilder in den Improvisationen am Flügel: Die Expressionistin Ann-Helena Schlüter zum Tag des Denkmals mit seltenem Konzert.”
Inken Kleibömer, Oberhessische Presse
“Eisenach: Zur Sanierung der Knauf-Orgel in der Ruhlaer Trinitatiskirche spielte Ann-Helena Schlüter mit Musiker-Trio virtuos Bernsteins West-Side-Story.”
Susanne Reinhardt, Thüringer Allgemeine
“Schreibende Pianistin, Kultur in Regensburg: Eine vielseitige Künstlerin, so eine Erfolgsgeschichte wie die Würzburger Musikerin kann nicht jeder aufweisen. Das Üben hat sich ausgezahlt, die viele Zeit in Übezellen.”
Mittelbayerische Zeitung
“… ein Genie am Piano!”
Johanna Claar, TV Touring Würzburg/Schweinfurt
“Eine starke Lyrikerin, mit der Grabbe wohl seine Freude gehabt hätte. Sowohl in ihrem lyrischen Schaffen als auch in ihrer Prosa nimmt sie die LeserInnen auf einen semantischen Parforce Ritt mit. Sie spielt mit der Sprache, tanzt mit Bedeutungen und Anspielungen Menuett und verschiebt so scherzando die sprachlichen Grenzen von Welt.”
Michaela Wölfle, Lektorat SCM Verlag 2018
“She received a full scholarship because of her great performance. Classicaly alive.”
Wayne Bailey, Director School of Music Arizona State University, USA
“Hochbegabte Künstlerin!”
Peter Hain, Westfalen-Blatt
“Der allgegenwärtige Bach und die junge, deutsche Pianistin: ein schönes Gespann.”
Oliver Heuthe, SBS Radio Melbourne (Deutsche in Melbourne)
“Sie wagt einen Blick auf Bach, wie wir ihn dringend brauchen: Eine kompetente Musikerin, die nicht nur aktiv im Konzertleben steht, sondern auch als Musikwissenschaftlerin denkt, begibt sich auf die Suche nach dem, was seine Musik im Kern ausmacht, fragt unermüdlich nach dem tiefen Sinn dessen, was in den Noten steht, und hat es sich zum Anliegen gemacht, die Auseinandersetzung mit Bach nicht im Expertenkreis zu belassen, sondern vor allem heutige Jugendliche für seine Werke zu begeistern, Hemmschwellen zu überwinden. Ein zugleich fundierter und höchst leidenschaftlicher Zugang zu Bachs Musik, der
Jan Katzschke (Hannover/Dresden), Cembalist, Organist, Dirigent 2019
die mutige Deutung nicht scheut und damit zum Weiterfragen anregt.”
“She enjoys the widest variety of music, solo literature, chamber music, coaching, contemporary works, vocal accompanying. She is staff accompanist, and her strong intellectual curiosity, thirst and drive for knowledge will serve her well in any faculty position.”
Dr. Andrew Campbell, Arizona State University Phoenix, USA
“Ihr beeindruckender Lehrerfolg, dokumentiert durch die ausnahmslos überdurchschnittlichen Abschlüsse von Absolventen, beruht nicht nur auf ihren langjährigen, einschlägigen Erfahrungen im Konzertbereich und als Pädagogin mit fachlicher Kompetenz, sondern auch auf ihrem persönlichen Interesse an Weiterbildung in interdisziplinärer Hinsicht. In kurzer Zeit erregten ihre Fähigkeiten bemerkenswert großes Aufsehen.”
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Friedhelm Brusniak, Würzburg, Zentrum für Musikforschung
“Her showy talent and high potential as an emerging artist merit acknowledgement and congratulations.”
Michele Morgan-Dufour, Toradze Concerto Institute Indiana University, USA
“Eine der begabtesten und prophetischsten Frauen, die ich kenne.”
Heidi Laubscher, Gebetshaus Amden, Schweiz
“Beautiful Lecture Recitals in Manila, Philippines!”
Peter Porticos, Alwin Reamillo, Ateneo de Manila
“Beeindruckend, berührend.
Michael Ende, sound 7
Zurückhaltend und gleichzeitig emotional eindringlich.
Selten erlebt man heute noch solch einen Melodienreichtum auf einem Songwriter-Album.”
“Pianistin weihte in die Geheimnisse Bachs ein.”
Zwarte, Ostfriesenzeitung Rysum
“Im Feld der lyrischen Improvisation zuhause, eine breit aufgestellte musikalische Persönlichkeit, herausragende Qualitäten als klassische Pianistin.”
Prof. Hans Peter Salentin, HfM Würzburg
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