
Richard Ullman is a guitarist and lute player, and teacher. Ullman received his BA from Harvard College and MFA in Early Music from Sarah Lawrence College - where he taught for eleven years. Ullman studied at the Aspen Music Festival for three summers and was accompanist on lute and guitar for the English song classes of Sir Peter Pears at the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies in Aldeburgh, England. He is a graduate of the Kodaly Center of America in Massachusetts and the Kodaly Pedagogical Institute in Hungary.
Ullman won a national guitar competition in Washington, D.C. His professional life as a performer has concentrated on the accompaniment of singers. He has performed widely and has taught at Tufts, Sarah Lawrence, Concordia, Central Connecticut State, and Green Mountain College. He has taught at Castleton for fourteen years. He is also a solfege teacher and guitarist at the Brattleboro Music Center. Ullman can be heard playing in the movie Meet the Parents. |