"She opens her moved heart over the keys"
... The pianist Ann-Helena Schlüter is a multilateral gifted artist. The sucessful woman won many prizes, Steinway Competition Hamburg, Robert Schumann Zwickau, played in all countries from Russia to Uganda, has many Diplomas, published five CDs. She began the piano with 4 years old, her parents are musicians. Her life is stamped with (classical) music. She studied in Köln, Detmold, USA and back in Würzburg, Master of Music an der Arizona State University, she wrote over 200 songs ...
(Ulrike Kiesel, Theresa Müller, Mainpost 2011)
The german-swedish artist, pianist and musician Ann-Helena Schlüter, born in a musician family, lives in Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany. She plays the piano since four years old. Her father, the german pianist Prof. Karl-Heinz Schlüter, taught her in pianoplaying until she was 17. She studied music in several famous music universities. She writes lyrics, poetry, songs and piano music. On her new CD “Jeden Augenblick” are 17 of her own songs, very creativ, interesting and different — tender and strong at the same time, like her voice. Recorded on a grandpiano with band, violin, cello, bass, drums. Deep prayers put to music. Especially touching the song ‘Beautiful'. As Bonus there are two classical pieces of Johann Sebastian Bach, which shows the talent of Ann-Helena Schlüter as experienced classical pianist. Such a gifted young woman will have a great international future. The CD “Jeden Augenblick” is a big new discovery in music and poetry. I recommend it to everyone with all my heart.
... A new musical discovery!
(Marion Warrington, Journal Aufatmen 2011)
... On Friday, 30th September 2011, there was a premier, a piano concert in the Martinskirche and in the Antikriegshaus in Sievershausen/Hannover. The pianist Ann-Helena Schlüter from Würzburg played Bach, Beethoven, Hindemith and Chopin. The varied talented, highly gifted and skilled artist performed also her own works. She also writes songs, poems and she paints. To all the many prizes she won in the last years, the 1. Prize Grafimuse Artcompetition Brussles 2011 adds to it.
Ann-Helena Schlüter gives concert in the whole world, this year in Scotland, Ireland, Russia, Sweden ... and recorded several CDs this year and last year. The press talks about her brilliant sound and technique. Her next concerst here in Hannover will be in the gallery KrassUnartig, Rosebeckstr. 20, and in the Erlöserkirche in Dollbergen, with the painter Miro Niklewicz ...
(Walter Klinger, Michael Schenk, Lehrte/Sievershausen/Hannover)
... With 4 years old Ann-Helena Schlüter began with music and art. How she perfected it, was to be heard on Friday night in her concert in the Martinskirche Sievershausen/Hannover. With closed eyes she played Chopin Ballads, Etudes, Beethoven Waldstein, Bach and her own music. Her charm and charisma shined over her performance ...
(Susanne Hanke, HAZ (Hannoversche Allgemeine)
... The fingers always in contact with the keys, head and heart full of music, the pianist
Ann-Helena Schlüter descended into sound with the first drops of her own music. Whoever closed their eyes also in the audience, got carried away as well with her to the big opera houses of the world. For the young pianist is no difference between Salzburg, Moskau or here in Hannover, she playes with love. Already as child she loved sounds, words and tones. She is not only performing, she generates goosebumbs. Frèdèric Chopin seems to have composed his ballads only for her. Who ever missed her concert, will be utterly angry. But there is hope: 2012 she is invited again ...
(Beate Waltz, www.dollbergen.de, Dollbergen/Hannover)
... The pianist Ann-Helena Schlüter from Würzburg performed Chopin, Hindemith, Beethoven and Bach in the Antikriegshaus Hannover. The artist studied at the Musikhochschulen/Universities Cologne, Detmold, Phoenix, Würzburg and Leipzig und plays concerts in many nations, this year in Ireland, Scotland, Germany, Sverige, Russia ...
(Elke Brunhöber, HAZ)
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... Also classical musicians stay mostly in their fields, no Improvisation. Ann-Helena Schlüter moves in both worlds: She is a great classical pianist, won many prizes, but she is also a Singer-/Songwriter with very special songs. She presents sensitive popsongs with band and strings in english, german and swedish. She appears with brilliant musicians out of the Pop-and Jazzscene, so there are also groovy sounds ...
(Ralf Duggen, U&D Open Air Bandfestival Würzburg 2011)
“Newcomerin of the year"- this title I grant to Ann-Helena Schlüter, who lets people look into her soul on her new CD “Jeden Augenblick” (cap-music). She goes very deep ways selfconfident on a musical, individual journey in three languages. Beautiful classical and Jazzelements in tunes, which seem almost supernatural and heavenly because of the intimate sound of her voice. High quality songs are in! The observably high musicality of the artist Ann-Helena is to trace back to her musicial family and her classical studies. It is the season of the songpoets! What Ann-Helena accomplishs as classical pianist is to listen tp on the CD PianoLyrik (cap-music), for example the Goldberg Variations of Bach.’
(Rainer Buck, Charisma 2011)
With the CD “Jeden Augenblick (Every Moment)” succeeded Ann-Helena, a name and definition for fans of classical music (and rightly: Listen to her new CD CD PianoLyrik!), with a special spot: Deep-routend lyrics and songs, which flatter ear, heart and soul to sing along. She reminds me of Linda Perry. Ann-Helena does not play only piano and keyboard on her CDs, she also sings her own songs. She says that her songs are born in pain and written with the blood of her heart, and that is how it is supposed to be. The CD is good, high musical quality in her tunes and poetry, great musicians, who play with Ann-Helena. It is a very clean live album. A big variety: dreaming, groovy, supernatural floating and touching lyrics. Ann-Helena writes, that it is only a beginning. I would say, it is a good and promising one!
(Volker Grüner, Michael Ende, musik & message 2010)
She is to look at and to listen to. And the CD “Jeden Augenblick (Every Moment)” is a real hearer: Lyrics, imaginations, tunes, arrangements, harmonies of finest musical quality, composed of Ann-Helena on the grandpiano. She worked with her musicians many moments on this album. All of this is with exceptional intensity!
Ann-Helena — a name to remember!
(Jürgen Werth, 2010)
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... An exceptionally gifted pianist and a remarkable lyrical writer with her own independent way to express feelings and thoughts. She developed her individual way so combine arts ...
(TV Journal Antenne, Germany, ERF TV 2010)
She opens her moved heart over the keys.
(Public response 2011)
As classical pianist Ann-Helena Schlüter is decorarted with many prizes and plays all over the world. This album »Jeden Augenblick« is an extraordinary collection of her talents and songs. On the cover of her Pop-Debut she calls her herself just Ann-Helena, and hopefully her name will be famous one day. It is not abnormal that classical artists dare to crossover into popmusic, but with Ann-Helena, this is not only a trip or an excursion, this is the beginning. It is clear that she needs her songs and lyrcis to express herself in her artistically language, to touch other people. Her classical education gave her the munition to do so in a very high quality. Art in Popmusic.
Rarely is such an abundance of melodies to listen to on a songwriter-album. And there is her voice, very intimate, high and soft. A classical touch lies on every song, alone through the acoustical instrumentation, especially the combination of violin and piano. But there are also grovvy Jayysounds, reminding of Joni Mitchell, and even björk. Her lyrics are english, german and swedish, intimate prayers like »In allen Stürmen« (In all storms), introverted and charming. The hymn »Beautiful« is my secret favorite, but also the title song »Every Moment« and the mystical »Beauty Of Pain«. The parts of the instruments are played in in one night with this special sketchy charme.
Ann-Helena does not seem to be orientated of the habit of popmusic, she speaks with her own feelings and ways. This album will not be her last.
(Rainer Buck, sound7 2010)
... It is rare and beautiful, that art is such an integrated part of Ann-Helena as person, between grandpiano, voice, art and pen, between classical music, improvisation and popmusic, between concerts and declarations, there is no between. It is a unity. Sentences and movements grow, wide above, in a big expansion, into different art worlds, to touch mankind. Ann-Helena says that she wants her art to burst and split, that it blossoms out and flourishes to grow and develop. It is a gift.
(Prof. Peter Lampe, University Heidelberg, 2010)
...Ann-Helena Schlüter creates with her music an evening to dream and to think ...
(Liveclub Omnisbus Würzburg, 2011)
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... The Concert attendee experienced a pure master on the grandpiano, beautiful sound, brilliant technique. Joseph Haydn, consisely and sensitive played, the audience was captivated. Her gentle and accurate playing is no selfinflicted diffidence, but given to the composer and the music ... pianistical diversity and variety ... enormous spectrum of expressions ... standing ovations and encores ...brilliant and fast scales, crystal clear, also parallel in thirds, exact in timing, very high musical level ...
(Josef Riedmann, Mainpost Karlstadt)
... the climax of the evening was indisputable the fantastic tone colours of the two pianists Ann-Helena and Magdalena Schlüter in “Le carnaval des animaux” by Camille Saint-Saens — very fine, glassy sparkling skales and arpeggios on their grandpianos inmidst of the orchestra, a timbre of intimate pain and joy ...
(Renate Freyeisen, Mainpost Würzburg)
Masterly pianoplaying ... With Ann-Helena Schlüter could the Association in Wernfeld with Peter Hofmann greet a brilliant pianist with national and international awards. She plays the piano since she is three years old, comes from a musicial dynasty, studied with famous pianists in european cities and the US. She interpreted the very difficuld Goldberg Variations of Bach and played afterwards her own songs. In the beginning of the concert promoted of the Sparkasse she led in with some words explaining the background of the Goldberg Variations. Then she presented fireworks with acute, brilliant and melancholic soundworlds. In the second half she showed her talent as composer and lyricist. Everyone could see through her playing stories of leaves in the fall, an enchanted girl, martially hordes ...
(Ferdinand Heilgenthal, Mainpost Gemünden)
... the pianist Ann-Helena Schlüter accomplished a special contribution to the Chopin Year 2010. After Ravel's Alborada Del Gracioso with its comical, sarcastical charme and virtuosity, spanish, in the Character of the Basque, the enormous virtuosity of the Waldstein-Sonata by Beethoven she presented the Chopin Ballads, soft and melnacholic. Then she broke with the traditions like Friedrich Gulda in Vienna and played her own songs and improvisations, a crossover of a special kind. There were tender and catchy songs of love. She sang and accompanied herself beautifully on the piano. ...
(Peter Hain, Mainpost Karlstadt)
... Exuberant joy at the piano: Meisterklassenconcert with Ann-Helena Schlüter ... at the end people left the hall with the feeling that they had experienced more than a concert ... the young pianist played with excellent softness and transported moods and atmospheres into the hall, an evidence of her mastership on the piano. She used the whole range of the grandpiano with her brilliant scales and with sovereign virtuosity, but she told always a story. Her own compostions at the end of the concert spoke and touched more than everything else. Her young students came to her after the concert, surrounded her.
(Erna Rauscher-Steves, SWT, Schweinfurt)
... Ann-Helena and Magdalena Schlüter created out of Milhauds Scaramouche three rhythmically aromatic-effectpieces ...
(Otto Strodel, Mainpost)
... Since 6 years composes the young pianist, coming forth from a musical family. Her songs deal with questions about the sense of life, God, hope, natur, comfort. Not only in the Beethoven Waldstein Sonata she showed her talend and knowledge, but also in those songs. The musician from Würzburg plays the second time in the festival hall ...
(Inken Kleibömer, Gemünden, Mainpost)
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Much applause for smart pianoplaying: Hersbrucker Kammerconcerts: the three young Schlüter- artists played delicate, lyrical, with vituosity. The three sisters already won a flood of first prizes ...
(Alfred Eichhorn, Hersbrucker Land)
... With the flamy played Hungarian Dances by Brahms showed the young pianist duo Ann-Helena and Magdalena Schlüter a certain intuition and enormous skills in technique, agogik and dynamik, grown up in musicality. And it is clear already today, that these musicians will become a name ...
(Schweinfurt, Augustinum)
... PianoLyrik with the pianist Ann-Helena Schlüter, and you want more. Her way of interpretation of piano music is so persuasive that everyone is fascinated. She opens up a spectrum of feelings that I did not know that I had. But she is always very professional on stage, it is not only her virtuosity, she lays feelings full of trust into the hands of everyone of the audience, especially with her compositions, for example “Nachtgedanke (Nightthought)". She kidnaps everyone into their own inner beings.
PianoLyrik: Pianist Ann-Helena Schlüter plays Bach Goldberg Variations so persuasively that sheer fascination keeps the listener rapt. While totally professional, she also embraces all emotions spanning tenderness, joy, passion, beauty and melancholy. In her improvisations she touches hearts by highjacking the listener's own emotional depths.
(Johanna Frank, Cultureagency, posiTV)
... Love for Bach: The Goldberg Variations of Bach are one of the most difficult piano compositions. In may 2010 the pianist Ann-Helena Schlüter from Würzburg played in the Johanniskirche in Karlstadt. She played also three own songs from her new CD Jeden Augenblick (Every Moment), very touching especially the titlesong. The young pianist was born into a swedish-german musician-family in Nürnberg hineingeboren and plays since her earliest childhood the piano. She studied in Cologne, Detmold, USA and Würzburg and achieved lots of prizes. Also the Goldberg Variations she recoreded on the CD PianoLyrik. She is a multi-purposed artist, she writes novels and composes music. Her expresive pianoplaying and her soft voice touched the audience, who let her not go before two encores (Chopin Etudes) had been played ...
(Josef Riedmann, Mainpost)
... To improvise is something to learn: This showed the workshop in Velbert with the young pianist born in Nürnberg. Ann-Helena Schlüter spoke about boldness in Improvisation. ‘There is no such thing like wrong notes in the beginning', she said and led the teenagers and adults on piano, fluite, guitar, violin, drums to play together. After a while beautiful and free sounds floated the room ...
(Katharina Erschov, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung)
... Pianoeducation for very young children ... Ann-Helena Schlüter teaches at the Musikschule Schweinfurt children which are 3 years old. Ann-Helena herself began the pianoplaying in this age. Her success shows that it is important to assist especially the very young ones. The request, response and the need were huge ...
(A.N., Schweinfurt)
... Music gains wings: Osnabrück, May 2010: Own songs meet classical piano: PianoLyrik by Ann-Helena Schlüter on the Himmelsterrasse Bad Essen at the Landesgartenschau: Which place would be better for a heavenly piano concert with a masterpianist like this! The young pianist Ann-Helena Schlüter from Würzburg, decorated with many prizes, played uplifting and in love for ears and hearts.
PianoLyrik: she presented her music and lyrics as a composer, she showed the audience her special art, besides the famous language of Frédéric Chopins. In her music touches earth heaven ...
(Imma Schmidt, Malte Wördemann, Conny Rutsch, Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung und Wittlager Kreisblatt, Landesgartenschau Bad Essen 2010)
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... Mozart's G-Major-Variations, KV 521 — the young Schlüter-Duo pleased the audience with delicate and brilliant playing together, enchanted and full of spirit, an extraordinary concert with Ann-Helena and Magdalena Schlüter ...
(Alfred Eichhorn, Hersbruck)
... Magdalena and Ann-Helena Schlüter ran away with the first prize with Lutoslawski's highly virtuosical Paganini-Variations in Hamburg in front of all others ...
(Georg Borchardt, Die Welt)
... “Was kein Sturm mehr aufrütteln kann” ... Piano teaching for the youngest is so steady that no storm can blow away what the little ones learned at the piano. Ann-Helena Schlüter taught already 4years old-ones in the USA, Phoenix, Arizona ...
(Mathias Wiedemann, Schweinfurt)
... In north germany on tour: The ‘Young Concert’ in the Max-Grundig-Klinik with the three gifted Schlüter sisters glow at the grandpiano ... since many years they are on a flight with successes and prizes ...
(Badisches Tagblatt)
... Liszt and Lyrik on a Cologne Homepage ... Some people have a résumé that you are speechless. So with the young pianist Ann-Helena Schlüter from Nürnberg, daughter of a german pianist and a swedish pianoteacher. She began the pianoplaying with three years old, wrote her first poetry with nine. Since then music and literature mold and shape the life of the young woman. Many successes adorn determined her vita. Already in her first semester at the Cologne Musikhochschule she became a teacher at the Jazzschool in Cologne. Her website is a pleasant, rare, gentle and quiet appearance. You can hear and see her sing, play, read and go along with her life and journeys — a young aesthete, a “Schöngeist” ...
(Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger)
... fascinating moments with glass, crystal and sound 2009: climax was the pianoconcert on Saturday with the pianist Ann-Helena Schlüter from Würzburg. She captivated her audience with classical music, Bach, Chopin and Haydn and her own compositions, improvisations, poetry and songs. Especially her poems were touching. Until twilight she played, and the illumination of the art works in the garden glared and glistered in a beautiful atmosphere of sound and glass ...
(Neue Westfälische und Kultur-Schaufenster Höxter/Lütmarsen)
... In the “Westfalener Gartenkunstforum Glas und Klang” improvised the young pianist Ann-Helena Schlüter from Würzburg at the piano on a wodden podest to the outside artworks with plants and stones and to the illumination. It was a “Wandel-Konzert"; everyone brought a cushion to sit on in the garden ...
(Westfalen Blatt)
... The highly skilled, disinguished daughters of the pianist Karl-Heinz Schlüter gave concerts at the Culture Hall at Timmendorfer Strand with astounding knowledge and virtuosity, on the piano and on the violin ...
(A. Holtfort, Lübecker Nachrichten, Timmendorfer Strand)
... Franz Liszt's Don Juan-Fantasy smooched with the young Schlüter Duo, an amusement with the ironical background of the “Champagner-Arie” ... but the Clou was Milhaud's Scaramouche, Ann-Helena and Magdalena Schlüter played easy and rhythmically to lure to a dance ... completed and brilliant played ... mastership in such young years ...
(Paul-Georg Weber, Mainpost)
... “Hirtenflöte, Wurzelzwerg” — the youngest ones at the piano in concert, the joy stand in the foreground. The youngest offspring of the piano class of Ann-Helena Schlüter is barely three years old. The four year old Felix could not seperate himself from the grandpiano after he played. The first performance of the very young pianists, and all bowed proud after their performance. At the end of the concert they surrounded her teacher Ann-Helena Schlüter ...
(MAR, Schweinfurt)
... A final concert, a big finale ... With technique and power played the german pianist Ann-Helena Schlüter Bach in the masterclass of Feuchtwanger ...
(Martin Ringel, Fränkische Landeszeitung)
... The three young prizewinners Ann-Helena, Magdalena and Johanna Schlüter and the singer Diana Damrau played at the jubilee of the DTKV Würzburg (Deutscher Tonkünstlerverbands) ...
(Hele, Würzburg)
... Masterconcert in Hohenroth ... songs out of three centuries, “vom Milchmann zum Bettelstudent", ... the pianist Ann-Helena Schlüter shined alongside with the bass-singer Michael Albert ... Ann-Helena Schlüter is prizewinner of international awards and scholarships and showed her talent not only with Chopin und Francoix solo at the grandpiano but also in the sensitive accompaniment of the singer Albert. The audience especially loved Francoix’ Scherzo, funny and charming ...
(Kleibömer, Mainpost)
... the concertpianist Ann-Helena Schlüter played the four Ballads and Etudes of Chopin at the 18. Days of Culture at the winery Juliusspital Würzburg and put up new signs of sensitive virtuosity ...
(Monika Dietz, Mainpost)
... With the hungarian dances by Brahms showed the pianists Magdalena and Ann-Helena Schlüter after her solo playing on the grandpiano her brilliant playing together, well-rehearsed like only sisters can be, in change of tempo, synkopes, dynamik ranges, one unity and one shower, with fiery gypsy music in the concert hall ...
(PP, Volksblatt, Würzburg)
... Big talents in the piano institut Schlüter with the three sisters Johanna, Magdalena and Ann-Helena Schlüter, Piano solo, Piano Duo and Violin ... the young prizewinners are “Tastentiger” with enormous gifts ... The Schlüter daughters will go their way, down to earth, uncomplicated, swinging and full of energy. Prof. Schlüter teaches his daughters himself ...
(Alfred Eichhorn, Hersbrucker Zeitung)
... Climax of the Art Week in Lungern, Switzerland, of the artistic movement Das Rad was the Vernissage at the end with music, improvised to the artworks ...
(B. Scheidegger, Lungener WB)
... three musicians pray with classical music ... Premiere in Ravensburg ... the pianist Ann-Helena Schlüter and the flutist Matthias Lyding together with the bassplayer Wolfgang Dennenmoser ... brilliant technique, you could almost fleshly feel the titles of the music pieces, the waves of the Chopin Ocean Etude from Ann-Helena Schlüter, the power of the tides ... the spark jumped over into the audience ... the young pianist did not only play, she sang her own songs at the end of the concert ...
(Guy-Pascal Dorner, Ravensburg)
... Würzburg, Monday, 7 pm in the s.Oliver Arena: folks of 800 people listened to the band who played christian music and songs, not a rock concert like normally, but a church service ...
(VB Würzburg)
... Hoping and Longing, Love and Suffering ... songs and pianomusic in the festival hall in Hohenroth which was full of people ... of a special class was the musical meeting with the pianist Ann-Helena Schlüter and her virtuosity, her sensitive playing of Chopin Etudes and Ballads which captivated the audience, music with fine sense and intuition. But Schlüter does not only play masterly solo, she accompanied the bass Michael Albert in a sensitive way... all these qualities shows a remarkable pianist ...
(h, Gemünden-Hohenroth)
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