Bernhard Wulff

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

Wulff studied conducting, composition and percussion in Hamburg, Freiburg, Basel and Siena and is professor for percussion instruments at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg.^[1]

He is active as a conductor in Europe, South America, the US, Japan, Central Asia and the successor states of the Soviet Union, and as a visiting professor at various universities, including New York (Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music), Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Mexico City, Rochester, Montevideo, Odesa, San Juan, Ulaanbaatar, Hanoi.^[2]

As a composer, he wrote for various genres and was particularly interested in sound art installations and Biosignalverarbeitung [de]. In 1989, he discovered and reconstructed the symphonic works of Viktor Ullmann.^[3] Lecture tours as a musicologist on the Ullmann theme took him to many countries.

Wulff is the founder and artistic director of several international music festivals: Two Days and Two Nights of New Music in Odesa (Ukraine), Roaring Hooves [de] in Mongolia/Gobi Desert, "Silk Sound Road" in Kyrgyzstan, "Caspian Fires" in Azerbaijan and "Cracking Bamboo" in Vietnam.

For his services to Mongolian culture,^[4] he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Ulaanbaatar^[which?] in 2010 and was appointed cultural ambassador of Mongolia by the Mongolian government.

• Literature by and about Bernhard Wulff in the German National Library catalogue
• Bernhard Wulff discography at Discogs