Gerhard Schulz studied with Franz Samohyl in Vienna, Sándor Végh in Düsseldorf, and Shmuel Ashkenasi in the USA. He was a founding member of the Salzburg String Trio, the Schulz Ensemble, and the first violinist of the Düsseldorf String Quartet.
As a member of the world-renowned Alban Berg Quartet, he performed regularly for over 30 years in the most important music centers around the world. As an exclusive artist with EMI, the quartet recorded a large portion of the string quartet repertoire and was awarded numerous prizes for its work. After the Alban Berg Quartet concluded its concert activities in the summer of 2008, Gerhard Schulz founded the Waldstein Ensemble (Piano Quartet). In November 2009, he debuted as a conductor with the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra and continues to equally enjoy performing on stage and working with his students. Since 1980, Gerhard Schulz has been a professor of violin at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna and since 1993, a guest professor of chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik Köln.
