Lisa Ullén

Lisa Ullén is a Swedish pianist and composer, born in Seoul in 1964 and adopted as a small child by a family in Örnsköldsvik, in the north of Sweden. Based in Stockholm, she trained as a classical pianist and since the 1990s has worked in free improvisation, free jazz and contemporary composition, often mixing written structures with improvised playing and keyboard preparations. Ullén studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, then jazz at Chapel Hill in North Carolina and electronic music at EMS.