Annette Schlünz facts for kids

Annette Schlünz (born September 23, 1964) is a talented German musician and composer. She writes many different kinds of music, from operas to pieces for orchestras and smaller groups of instruments.

About Annette Schlünz

Annette Schlünz was born in Dessau, a city in East Germany, in 1964. She loved music and decided to study it seriously. From 1983 to 1987, she went to the Dresden Music School. There, she learned from a famous teacher named Udo Zimmermann. Later, from 1988 to 1991, she continued her studies at the Academy of Arts in Berlin, where she worked with Paul-Heinz Dittrich. She also had the chance to learn from other important composers like Iannis Xenakis and Helmut Lachenmann.

Annette Schlünz started teaching music in 1987 at the Dresden Center for Contemporary Music. She also taught at the Dresden Music School until 1992. She has traveled a lot to share her music and ideas. In 1996, she went on a concert and lecture tour in South America. She also visited countries like Denmark, France, Spain, the USA, and Vietnam in 2001. She has given talks at many places, including the electronic music studio in Berlin and the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. In 2005, she was a special composer working at the GRAME Centre National de Création Musicale in Lyon, France.

Awards and Recognitions

Annette Schlünz has received several awards for her musical work:

• She won the Hanns Eisler Prize in 1990.
• In 1998, she received the Heidelberg Artists Award.
• Her recording of a piece called MOCCOLI won the Prize of the German Record Critics' Award in 1999.
• She also received scholarships to Darmstadt in 1990 and 1992, which helped her continue her studies.

Musical Creations

Annette Schlünz has composed many different types of music. She has written pieces for the stage, like operas and children's theater. She also creates music for small groups of instruments (chamber ensembles), for singers, and for multimedia projects that combine music with other art forms.

Selected Works for Stage and Orchestra

• Matka (1988–89): This is a chamber opera, which is a small opera. Annette Schlünz wrote the story herself, based on a work by Karel Capek.
• Un jour d'été (1996): This was a children's theater piece.
• TagNachtTraumstaub (1999–2000): A music theater piece with texts by herself and others.
• Picardie (1992): A piece for a full orchestra.
• Fadensonnen (1993): Written for a small orchestra.
• but you in it (2001–02): A piece for bass clarinet, tuba, and orchestra.

Selected Works for Voices and Instruments

• Ornithopoesie (1989): A choral piece, meaning it's for a choir of singers.
• Tender Buttons (1997): Another choral work.
• Rose (1988): For a mezzo-soprano (a type of female singer) and piano.
• The anti-Rose (1995): For a soprano (another type of female singer), violin, and piano.
• Violent customer – Gibbongesänge (2001): For voice and tape recording.
• I see the dream of water (1995): Music for a mobile ensemble, which means the musicians might move around. It includes two voices, recorders, percussion, and sculptures.

Selected Works for Instruments Only

• shaded (1991): A piece for piano.
• String Trio – il pleut doucement sur la ville (1989): For violin, viola, and cello.
• night black, the blue (1990): For oboe, trombone, viola, cello, double bass, piano, and percussion.
• pigeon blue shadows mingled (1990): For flute and guitar.
• Et la pluie se – silent - (1994): For organ and three percussion players. There's also a version from 2004 for organ and one percussion player.
• Dream herb (1995): For flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano, and percussion.
• With traces of water and salt voice (1987): For eleven different players.
• couloir de la solitude (2000): This piece uses tape recordings and is part of a room installation, which is a type of art display.

Recorded Music

Many of Annette Schlünz's works have been recorded and released on CDs. Some of these include:

• Klage (1992)
• verhalten, entgleiten, entfalten (1994)
• Ach, es... (1994)
• A collection of works including Traumkraut, Fadensonnen, and Ornithopoesie (1998)
• Zarte Knöpfe (1998)
• la faulx de l'été (1999)
• MOCCOLI (1999)
• Unaufhörliche Schlaflosigkeit (1999)
• A second version of la faulx de l'été (2005)
• ZEBRA (2005)