German composer of mostly stage, chamber, vocal, and multimedia works that have been performed throughout the world ; she is also active as a pianist and recorder-player.

Annette Schlünz studied with Udo Zimmermann at the Musikhochschule Dresden from 1983-87 and with Paul-Heinz Dittrich at the Akademie der Kunste in Berlin from 1988-91.

Later encounters with Iannis Xenakis at Darmstadt and Helmut Lachenmann in Stuttgart were also important.

Among her honors are the Hanns-Eisler-Preis (1990), the Heidelberger Künstlerinnen-Preis (1998) and the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik (1999, for the EMI Classics recording of Moccoli) and commissions from many ensembles and festivals.

She has also received scholarships to Darmstadt (1990, 1992), the electronic music studio of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin (1994, 2002), the Deutsche Akademie at the Villa Massimo in Rome (1999), and the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart (2000). Most recently, she earned scholarships to the Kulturstiftung Rhein-Neckar-Kreis in Dilsberg (2000) and the Kunstlerinnenhof die H÷GE near Bremen (2003) and served a residency at GRAME in Lyon (2005). Her music has been performed in Europe, Japan, South America, and the USA.

She has worked at the Dresdner Zentrum fur zeitgenˆssische 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 taught at the Musikhochschule Dresden from 1987-92 and lectured on composition as part of the Brandenburgisches Kolloquium für Neue Musik in 1995.

She has worked as a free-lance composer in both Dresden and Strasbourg since 1993.