Gebhard Ullmann
*2 November 1957
Works by Gebhard Ullmann
Biography
Since the 1980s ... Gebhard Ullmann … is one of the leading personalities of both the Berlin and the international music scene and released more than 65 CDs.
His interests always were both the improvisational and conceptual/compositional sides of music.
His orchestral woodwind/accordion project 'Tá Lam' from 1990 today is considered one of the milestones of this type of genrecrossing music.
He worldwide gives master classes on improvised compositions esepcially for orchestras and chamber music ensembles.
2019 as part of the 100th anniversary celebrations of the BauHaus he composed for the project 'Klingende Utopien' of the BuJazzO along with the movie 'Berliner Stilleben' by László Moholy-Nagy a new composition for BigBand and Choir with microtonal elements.
In 2020 he completely revised his 4-movement suite 'Hell und Bunt' from 1995 for classical saxophone quartet adding microtonal elements. The worldwide first microtonal piano quartet 'mikroPULS' released the first CD in 2019.
Since the 2000s he wrote several chamber music works including a cycle of compositions for solo woodwinds, 'Impromptus und Interationen' - a 61-minute work for solo piano, solo works for violin and trumpet, the 'Kleine Symphonie für Kammerensemble' for the ensemble LUX:NM (Berlin), two string quartets and a number of compositiones for large orchestra including his first symphony entitled 'Symphonische Verwebungen für Orchester, Stimme, Klavier und Perkussion' and a 21-minute version of his 'Tá Lam' cycle for large orchestra and soloists.
About the music
In my compositions I use microtonal, rhythmic and compositional techniqus I developed during my life in the genrecrossing projects. Particularly the combination of rhythms from non-european cultures and microtonal developments within-functional harmony and a melodic context merged into my own musical language during the past three decades.