Annette Schlünz

German composer, now resident in both France and Germany, of mostly stage, chamber, vocal, and multimedia works that have been performed in the Americas, Asia and Europe. Ms. Schlünz studied with Udo Zimmermann at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber in Dresden from 1983–87 and with Paul-Heinz Dittrich at the Universität der Künste Berlin from 1988–91. Later encounters with Iannis Xenakis at the Ferienkurse in Darmstadt and Helmut Lachenmann in Stuttgart were also important. Among her honours are the Hanns-Eisler-Preis (1990), the Heidelberger Künstlerinnenpreis (1998) and the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik (1999, for the recording of MOCCOLI ). She has also received scholarships to the Ferienkurse in Darmstadt (1990, 1992), the studio for electronic music of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin (1994, 2002), the Deutsche Akademie at the Villa Massimo in Rome (1999), the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart (2000), the Kulturstiftung Rhein-Neckar-Kreis in Dilsberg (2000), and the Künstlerinnenhof Die Höge (2003), and has held residencies at GRAME in Lyon (2005), the Künstlerhof Schreyahn (2006, 2017) and the Centro tedesco di studi veneziani (2014). She has been a member of the Sächsische Akademie der Künste in Dresden since 2010, the Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg since 2011 and the Akademie der Künste in Berlin since 2021. She is also active in other positions. She has worked at the Dresdner Zentrum für zeitgenössische Musik since 1987 and has worked on intercontinental music projects since 1992. She toured South America in 1996, where she gave concerts and seminars, and visited Denmark, France, Spain, the USA, and Vietnam in 2001, on grants from the Goethe-Institut. She served on the artistic advisory council HEAR in Strasbourg and Mulhouse from 2014–17 and has served on the council of the Musikhochschule Lübeck since 2021. She has served as director of the composition camp of the Impuls Festival in Saxony-Anhalt since 2015. She taught at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber from 1987–92 and lectured on composition as part of the Brandenburgisches Kolloquium für Neue Musik in 1995. She has taught at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Strasbourg since 2013, where she also organises composition workshops for young composers, and teaches at the Komponistenklasse Dresden. Her primary publishers are Boosey & Hawkes and Ricordi München, though Breitkopf & Härtel, Peermusic and Schott Music are the publishers of some works. Robert S. (one scene, Szene Zwickau , in a music-theatre work in 5 scenes about Robert Schumann, libretto by Klaus Angermann), soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, male actor, flute (+ piccolo), oboe (+ English horn), clarinet (+ bass clarinet), bassoon (+ contrabassoon), trombone, piano, 2 percussion, 2 violins, viola, 2 cellos, double bass, 2011 (collaboration with Karola Obermüller , Peter Gilbert , Georg Katzer , Sergej Newski ) (Ricordi München) Blick!Los! , flute, 2 clarinets, piano, celesta, 2 percussion, 2011 (Ricordi München) Herbstgesang St. John's Gardens (text by Ulrike Draesner), soprano, viola, percussion, loops, 2021 fliegen fliegen? , flute (+ bass flute), oboe, clarinet, film (by Thierry Aué), 2003 (Boosey & Hawkes) Klage . Daniel Morgenroth, speaker; Friedrich Goldmann /Scharoun Ensemble Berlin (Aurophon/DZzM, 1992) Traumkraut ; Tout est rêver ; Fadensonnen ; Taubenblaue Schatten haben sich vermischt ; Ornithopoesie ; Et la pluie se mit à tomber . Georg Mertens, flute; Volker Höh, guitar; Accroche Note; Les Percussions de Strasbourg; Roland Kluttig/Thürmchen Ensemble; Klaus Bernbacher/Kammerensemble pro musica nova Bremen; Roland Hayrabedian/Musicatreize (Deutscher Musikrat/WERGO: WER 6539 2, 1998) Zarte Knöpfe . Michael Gläser/female voices of the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks (Deutscher Musikrat: 5. Deutscher Chorwettbewerb, 1998 [reissued as BMG/RCA]) La faulx de l'été (original version). Katja Reiser, soprano recorder, alto recorder, teno