Bernhard Wulff

Bernhard Wulff (* 1948 in Hamburg ) is a German composer , conductor , percussionist and musicologist .

His sons Jan-Markus Wulff and Tobias Wulff, as well as his daughter Katrin Osner, are also active in the music and media industry.

He studied conducting, composition and percussion in Hamburg, Freiburg, Basel and Siena and is professor for percussion instruments at the Freiburg University of Music .

He is active as a conductor in Europe, South America, the USA, Japan, Central Asia and the successor states of the Soviet Union and as a visiting professor at various universities, including in New York ( Juilliard and Manhattan School ), Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Mexico City, Rochester, Montevideo, Odessa, San Juan, Ulan Bator, Hanoi.

As a composer, he wrote for various genres and was particularly interested in sound installations and bio-signal processing . In 1989 he discovered and reconstructed the symphonic works of Viktor Ullmann . Lecture tours as a musicologist on the Ullmann topic took him to many countries.

Bernhard Wulff is the founder and artistic director of several international music festivals: "Two Days and two nights" in Odessa in the Ukraine, Roaring Hooves in Mongolia / Gobi Desert, "Silk Sound Road" in Kyrgyzstan, "Caspian Fires" in Azerbaijan and "Cracking." Bamboo ”in Vietnam. For his services to Mongolian culture, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Ulan Bator in 2010 and was appointed cultural ambassador of Mongolia by the Mongolian government.