Ulrike Brand

is a cellist, performer and composer. She has developed her own sound world on the cello through new playing techniques. Her projects cross borders into the areas of language, dance, performance and visual art. Her compositions are located in the area between improvised and notated music.

She writes essays and gives workshops and guest lectures.

From 1987 to 1997 she was artistic director of the Quaderni Perugini di Musica Contemporanea in Perugia, Italy.

In 2016 she was a scholarship holder at the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, in 2020 at the Komponist:innenforum Mittersill. She has received numerous grants.

Since 2018 she has been teaching improvisation at the Berlin University of the Arts.