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 . 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), 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 in 2010 and was appointed cultural ambassador of Mongolia by the Mongolian government.