Alexander Ullman was born in 1991. He studied at the Purcell School of Music with William Fong, the Head of Keyboard, and went on to study at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where he studied with Leon Fleisher, Ignat Solzhenitsyn and Robert McDonald, graduating in 2013.
At the Curtis Institute he held the Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest Fellowship. Alexander has won numerous prizes and international competitions including first prize at the International Piano Competition In Memoriam Ferenc Liszt, the Lagny-sur-Marne International Piano Competition, the Tunbridge Wells International Young Concert Artists Competition, the Evangelia Tjiarri International Piano Competition, the International Marlow Concerto Competition, the Christopher Duke Piano Recital Competition and the One Thousand Islands International Piano Competition. He was placed second in both the International James Mottram Piano Competition and the Seattle International Piano Competition.
Following his success at the Liszt Competition in Budapest, Alexander has performed in a series of tours across Europe and Asia taking him to concert halls throughout Italy, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, India and China. He has performed in all of the major concert halls in England as well as extensively in America, most recently playing his début with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Mann Center in Philadelphia. Earlier this year he gave a recital at the Leipzig Gewandhaus and toured with the Dover Quartet in England, Spain, Germany and France. He has been broadcast by BBC Radio 3, MDR Classic and Radio France.
