Anne-Maria Hölscher
Biography Anne-Maria Hölscher
Anne-Maria Hölscher
The classical accordionist Anne-Maria Hölscher studied music in Weimar, Trossingen and Toronto (Canada) with Claudia Buder, Hugo Noth and Joseph Macerollo and is a former scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation), Deutsche Bank Stiftung (Deutsche Bank Foundation) and the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service). Hölscher has been awarded prizes at several music competitions. Her wide-range solo repertoire has spanned the last five centuries. Anne-Maria Hölscher regularly performs with orchestras, chamber music ensembles and acclaimed formations for contemporary music: Collegium Novum Zurich, Ensemble Ascolta, Klangforum Heidelberg, and others. She has given recitals as a soloist and chamber musician at international music festivals: Eclat-Festival Stuttgart, European Music Festival Stuttgart, International Summer Course Darmstadt, Lucerne Festival, Schwetzingen Festival, Days for New Music Weingarten, Transit Leuven, Ultraschall Berlin and Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik. Collaborations with composers such as Marc Andre, Nikolaus Brass, Klaus Huber, Márton Illés, Johannes Kalitzke, Fabien Lévy, Oliver Schneller and many others have brought about world premieres of works for accordion solo and ensemble music featuring accordion scoring. Anne-Maria Hölscher has held a professorship for accordion and chamber music at the University of Lucerne ‒ Music since 2010; she enthusiastically shares the expressive diversity of her instrument to young accordionists. Annually, Hölscher chairs the Accordion Conference in Lucerne to promote further training and cooperation between teachers. Together with Hugo Noth, a pioneer of the instrument, Hölscher curates the YouTube channel ‘Colours of the Accordion’, which shows the development of the accordion in terms of playing technique and tonal variety over the last few decades. Embedded in this channel, Anne-Maria Hölscher and a group of like-minded people have launched the project ‘For young and old’: The idea is to create a collection of pedagogically suitable music that aims to inspire both teachers and (very) young players of the accordion. Anne-Maria Hölscher has made recordings for various ARD broadcasters (HR ‒ Hessian Radio, SWR ‒ Southwest German Radio, WDR ‒ West German Radio et al.) and a series of CD productions as a soloist and chamber musician. She has published an album with French Suites by Johann Sebastian Bach on the Organum Classics label (OGM 281096).
