Tomas Ulrich

This article deals with the cellist and composer Tomas Ulrich. For other people see Thomas Ulrich (disambiguation) .

Tomas Ulrich (* 1958 in Columbus , Ohio ) is an American cellist and composer who also plays new improvisation music and can be heard in jazz projects .

Live and act

Tomas Ulrich initially received a classical education and studied at Boston University and the Manhattan School of Music . In the 1990s he worked in string projects with Gary Smulyan , Joey Calderazzo and Kenny Drew Jr. , then in the second half of the 1990s he increasingly worked in the avant-garde scene around the CIMP label , where he worked with musicians such as Mark Whitecage ( Caged No More , 1996), Ivo Perelman , Lou Grassi ( Neo Neo , 1999), Kevin Norton ('Knots', 1997'), Steve Swell ( Flurries Warm and Color , 1999) and Dominic Duval's quartet with Ron Lawrence (Viola), Gregor Hübner (violin), with whom the albums The Navigator for Leo Records and The State of the Art for CIMP (1997) were created. Tomas Ulrich was also involved as a cellist on the album "Four Marys" by Rebecca Pidgeon (Chesky JD165, 1998).

Ulrich is also a member of the Diller-Quaile String Quartet , with which he performed his Quintet for Trumpet and Strings in May 1996, with Herb Robertson as a guest soloist. Ulrich also played with musicians such as Anthony Davis , Joe Lovano , Gerry Hemingway , Derek Bailey , Anthony Braxton , Herb Robertson , Ben Allison , Uri Caine , Dave Douglas , Mark Feldman , Jason Hwang , Joëlle Léandre , Ursel Schlicht and Ken Filiano and is a member by Hans Tammen Third Eye Orchestra . With Tim Sund and Tom Christensen he forms the Kailash Trio , which was heard for the first time in Germany during the Dresden Days of Contemporary Music in 2007.

Ulrich also wrote music for theater, film and instrumental groups and has performed in Europe, Japan, South America and Canada.

Works

• Maze
• String Quartet
• Surface: For Alto, Baritone and Strings
• Quintet for Trumpet and Strings

swell

• Discography of his projects at CIMP
• Tomas Ulrich at all about Jazz
• Carina Prange on Norton / Léandre / Ulrich - "Ocean of Earth"

• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .