Annette Schlünz (born 23 September 1964) is a German musician and composer. Biography Schlünz was born in Dessau, East Germany. She studied music at the Dresden Music School from 1983 to 1987 with Udo Zimmermann and at the Academy of Arts in Berlin from 1988 to 1991 with Paul-Heinz Dittrich. She also studied with Iannis Xenakis at Darmstadt and Helmut Lachenmann in Stuttgart. Schlünz took a teaching position at the Dresden Center for Contemporary Music in 1987 and taught at the Dresden Music School from 1987 to 1992. She went on a concert and lecture tour in South America in 1996, and also appeared in Denmark, France, Spain, the USA, and Vietnam in 2001. She has also lectured at the electronic music studio of the Academy of Arts in Berlin, the Brandenburg Colloquium, the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart and the German Academy at the Villa Massimo in Rome. She was composer-in-residence at GRAME Centre National de Création Musicale in Lyon in 2005. Honors and awards Hanns Eisler Prize (1990) Heidelberg Artists Award (1998) Prize of the German Record Critics' Award (1999, for the EMI Classics recording of MOCCOLI) Scholarships to Darmstadt (1990, 1992) Works Schlünz has composed music for stage, chamber ensemble, vocal, and multimedia works. Selected works include: Matka (chamber opera, libretto by the composer, after Karel Capek), 1988–89 Un jour d'été (children's theater, text by Pierre Garnier), 1996 TagNachtTraumstaub (music theater, texts by the composer, Matthias Roth, Ulrike Schuster), 1999–2000 Picardie orchestra, 1992 Fadensonnen small orchestra, 1993 but you in it bass clarinet, tuba, orchestra, 2001–02 Ornithopoesie choral (text by Pierre Garnier), 1989 Tender Buttons choral (texts by Matthias Roth, Pierre Garnier), 1997 shaded piano, 1991 String Trio - il pleut doucement sur la ville violin, viola, cello, 1989 night black, the blue oboe, trombone, viola, cello, double bass, piano, percussion, 1990 pigeon blue shadows mingled flute, guitar, 1990 Et la pluie se - silent - organ, 3 percussion, 1994 (also version for organ, percussion, 2004) Dream herb flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano, percussion, 1995 With traces of water and salt voice 11 players, 1987 Rose (text by Ingeborg Bachmann), mezzo-soprano, piano, 1988 The anti-Rose (text by Yvan Goll, Claire Goll) soprano, violin, piano, 1995 Violent customer - Gibbongesänge (text by Ulrike Schuster), voice, tape, 2001 I see the dream of water, music events for a mobile ensemble (text by Pierre Garnier), 2 voices,