Performed By Ellen Fallowfield. German composer and university professor Jakob Ullmann was born in Saxony, East Germany, in 1958. After refusing to do compulsory military service in the former German Democratic Republic, he ended up working as a groundkeeper, boilerman and house painter between 1978–82. Then he studied Church Music in Dresden, and also composition privately with Friedrich Goldmann. Since 1982 he has worked as a composer and writer in Berlin; and in 2008 he joined the music staff at the Academy in Basel. Most of his recent works have been published by Edition RZ.