10 Facts About Gebhard Ullmann

Gebhard Ullmann was born on November 2,1957 and is a German jazz musician and composer.

At the age of six, Ullmann started to play the recorder and later classical flute.

Some other projects Gebhard Ullmann led or co-led and composed music for are:.

Gebhard Ullmann wrote several larger works for classical orchestra and a new score for the movie 'Berliner Stilleben' from 1929 by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy for the BuJazzO plus Choir as part of the project 'Klingende Utopien - 100 Jahre Bauhaus'.

Gebhard Ullmann's compositions are now distributed by Universal Edition, Vienna.

In 2024 Gebhard Ullmann released his 70th CD as a leader or co-leader.

Gebhard Ullmann was a member of projects such as The Silent Jazz Ensemble, Chris Dahlgren's Lexicon, the Berlin-based Die Elefanten, Gunter Lenz's Springtime and many others.

Gebhard Ullmann has worked with Paul Bley, Keith Tippett, Frank Gratkowski, Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, the Ensemble Les Percussions de Guinee, William Parker, Herb Robertson, Bob Moses, Bobby Previte, Lauren Newton, Andrew Cyrille, Sylvie Courvoisier, Willem Breuker, Rita Marcotulli, Dieter Glawischnig, Tom Rainey, Ivo Papazov, Sergei Starostin, Alexey Kruglov, Benat Achiary, Frank Mobus, Tyshawn Sorey and the actor Otto Sander.

Gebhard Ullmann received the Julius Hemphill Composition Award in two categories, one of the first SWR Jazz Awards, The German Phonoacademy Award, many awards by the city of Berlin including the first Berlin Jazz Award in 2017.

Since 2005 Gebhard Ullmann was listed in the Down Beat critics poll, lately in several categories.