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Annett Richter

Annett Richter, from Halle, Germany, is Vice President of the Minnesota Guitar Society and has served on its Board of Directors for nearly 15 years. She is active as a lutenist, guitarist, scholar, editor, teacher, concert curator, and visual artist in the Fargo, North Dakota/Moorhead, Minnesota area and in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota (United States). She has taught lute, guitar, music history, music iconography, music in painting, writing about music, and German at Concordia College (Moorhead), North Dakota State University (Fargo), Minnesota State University Moorhead, the University of Missouri–Columbia, and the University of Minnesota. As lutenist, she has appeared in concert with sopranos Linh Kauffman, Candace Magner, Dawn Sonntag, and Kim Sueoka, mezzo-soprano Holly Janz, lutenists Richard Griffith, Philip Rukavina, and Tom Walker, as well as with the early music ensemble Consortium Carissimi in Minneapolis. As a guitarist, she has presented solo and duo recitals for the Minnesota Guitar Society. Annett served as juror for the 2010 St. Joseph International Guitar Festival & Competition (Missouri, USA), founded and directed by guitarist Anthony Glise. She has judged auditions for the Minnesota Guitar Society’s Youth Guitarathon, as well as for the Schubert Club and the Minnesota Music Teachers Association Classical Guitar Annual Scholarship Competitions. She has been awarded grants for her collaborative recitals of seventeenth-century music with Minneapolis-based soprano Linh Kauffman. Besides performing, Annett has a great passion for conducting interviews with internationally renowned artists, including women guitarists Bokyung Byun (Korea), Andrea Caballero (Spain), Antigoni Goni (Greece/Belgium), and Berta Rojas (Paraguay); lutenist Lucas Harris (U.S./Canada); as well as Grammy Award winner and ukulele and slack key guitar player Daniel Ho (Hawaii/L.A.), published in the Minnesota Guitar Society’s newsletter Guitarist and in Classical Guitar Magazine online. As an interviewer and writer, Annett is dedicated to sharing with readers the paths, encounters, and contributions that 20th- and 21st-century female guitarists from across the globe have traveled, experienced, and made on their way to make today’s world of the classical guitar ever more diverse. Annett holds a PhD in musicology and master’s degrees in guitar performance from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and in British and American Studies from Martin-Luther-Universität Halle/Wittenberg, Germany. She studied classical guitar with Petra Burman, Ursula Klein, and Peter Gollnast in Germany and with Jeffrey Van (Minnesota) and Todd Green (Montana, US), as well as lute and basso continuo with Lucas Harris (Tafelmusik, Toronto, Canada) and Joseph Gascho (University of Michigan, US).