Jakob Ullmann

Jakob Ullmann is a German composer born in Freiberg, Saxony, in 1958, the son of theologian and politician Wolfgang Ullmann. Barred from official study in East Germany, he trained privately and has worked as a freelance composer since the early 1980s. Much of his work for ensemble, string quartet and solo instruments has been recorded by the Berlin label Edition RZ. Ullmann refused military service in the GDR and studied church music in Dresden, then took private composition lessons with Friedrich Goldmann.