Gebhard Ullmann
*2 November 1957
Works by Gebhard Ullmann
Biography
Gebhard Ullmann since the 1980s has been regarded as one of the leading musical personalities on both the Berlin and international contemporary music scenes.
He released about 70 CDs as a leader/co-leader.
His large-scale woodwind/accordion project 'Tá Lam' from 1990 today is considered a milestone in genre-crossing music.
Ullmann gives master classes worldwide on the topic of improvised compositions, particularly for new music ensembles and orchestra musicians.
In 2019, for the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, he composed a score for László Moholy-Nagy's film 'Berliner Stilleben' for the project 'Klingende Utopien' by the BuJazzO, arranging it for big band and choir.
In 2020, he completely reworked his 1995 composition 'Hell und Bunt' for classical saxophone quartet and added microtonal elements.
The world's first microtonal piano quartet under his direction, 'mikroPULS', released its first CD in 2019.
Since the early 2000s, Ullmann has composed and published various chamber music works, including his cycle for woodwind instruments (solo), 'Impromptus und Interationen' (a 61-minute piano cycle) and compositions for violin and trumpet( solo).
Other works include the 'Kleine Symphony for Chamber Ensemble‘ for the Ensemble LUX:NM (Berlin), two string quartets and several works for large orchestra.
Among these orchestral works are his first symphony 'Symphonische Verwebungen für Orchester, Stimme, Klavier und Perkussion', his 'Orchestral Suite No. 1’ and a 21-minute orchestral version of his 'Tá Lam' cycle.
He currently composes a larger piece for orchestra entitled 'Modules for Orchestra'.
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.
