Richard Ulmer is an award-winning composer, songwriter, music producer, and multi-instrumentalist. His compositions and songs navigate between neoclassical piano music, ambient, and handmade indie pop.

He spent his formative years playing classical piano. Throughout the years, he auto-didactically learned how to sing and play various instruments. Since the age of thirteen, Ulmer has written music, explored different genres and learned how to record music.

His professional music career he started as a composer at Sony Music Publishing in Berlin. At that time he toured and recorded extensively with his former bands. A number of his songs were released by Sony Music Austria, Warner Music Germany and Universal Music Germany, achieved heavy rotation on major radio stations and entered the charts in Austria and Germany.

Ulmer's music was also used for commercials and TV-trailers including the CBS mystery series 'Ghost Whisperer' and the United Nations climate change campaign 'Seal the Deal!'. In recent years he composed and produced music for national and international brands. Coca-Cola commissioned him to reinterpret the song 'Taste The Feeling' for its 90th anniversary in Austria.

In 2020, he returned to his piano-playing roots, rediscovered his love for recording analog musical instruments and voices, and started releasing music on his own label Quiet Habit®.

Beyond his solo piano work, Richard Ulmer is one half of the indie band A Year, reflecting the breadth of his musical interests and artistic expression.