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Piano-Double Album HimlaSång (Heaven's Song). Swedish Piano Songs

Release March 2012

The germanswedish artist, pianist and musician Ann-Helena Schlüter, born in a musician family, lives in Bavaria, Germany. She plays the piano since she is 4 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 and gifted 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)

Songs by Ann-Helena

For more information, click on the german flagg on the right side.

... 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)

... 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 Band Festival 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, musik & message 2010)

She is to look at and to listen too. 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)

CD Jeden Augenblick

... 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)

(Liveclub Omnibus Würzburg 20.1.2011, Foto by Senta Studer)

She opens her moved heart over the keys.

(Public 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.

(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)

Ann-Helena Schlüter

•Heartbeat live ERF •Beauty •Herzton (Hearttone)

Heartbeat live ERF-TV

live aus ERF-Fernsehen, Werthe Gäste with Jürgen Werth

Beauty - Ann-Helena

Piano Improvisation, Steinway B, Musikhochschule Würzburg, Film: Daniel Menne

Herzton - Ann-Helena

Residenzgarden Würzburg, Photos by Matthias Mäder, Stuttgart