as a composer and wrote music for different chamber music ensembles including two string quartets and several solo pieces for woodwind instruments. He also wrote several larger works for classical orchestra and a new score for the movie 'Berliner Stilleben' from 1929 by László Moholy-Nagy for the BuJazzO plus Choir as part of the project 'Klingende Utopien - 100 Jahre Bauhaus'. In 2021 he wrote his first symphony entitled 'Symphonische Verwebungen for Orchestra, Voice, Piano and Percussion'. His compositions are now distributed by Universal Edition, Vienna. In 2020 Ullmann released his 60th CD as a leader or co-leader. As a sideman he works in the regular quartet of New York guitarist Scott DuBois, in the orchestras of Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii, the German pianist Hannes Zerbe and the Belgian pianist Bram De Looze. He was a member of projects such as The Silent Jazz Ensemble, Chris Dahlgren’s Lexicon, the Berlin-based Die Elefanten (produced by Teo Macero), Günter Lenz’s Springtime and many others. He has also worked with Paul Bley, Keith Tippett, Frank Gratkowski, Ernst-Ludwig Petrowski, the Ensemble Les Percussions de Guinée, 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, Beñat Achiary, Frank Möbus, Tyshawn Sorey and the actor Otto Sander Awards Ullmann received the Julius Hemphill Composition Award (1999) in two categories, one of the first SWR Jazz Awards (together with Andreas Willers in 1987), The German Phonoacademy Award (1983), many awards by the city of Berlin including the first Berlin Jazz Award in 2017. The second CD of his Tá Lam project was nominated best CD of the year by the German Schallplattenkritik and many of his CDs made the best-of-the-year list in magazines and newspapers worldwide including the New York City Jazz Record and the Down Beat magazine (The Clarinet Trio 1999, Final Answer 2002, The Bigband Project 2004, New Basement Research 2006, Poetry in Motion 2008, News? No News 2010, Tá Lam 11 – Mingus! 2011, Hat And Shoes 2015, Impromptus and Other Short Works 2019, Das Kondensat 2 2021). The CD Transatlantic received the Choc of the French Jazz Magazine. Since 2005 Ullmann was listed in the Down Beat critics poll, lately in several categories.In 2022 he received the German Jazz Award in the category woodwinds. Discography Leader or co-leader albums Gebhard Ullmann, Andreas Willers Playful