The award-winning and renowned drummer Julian Külpmann was born in Hanover and began playing drums at the age 7 and hasn't stopped ever since. After playing many jazz, rock and fusion gigs in his youth, he enrolled at the University of Music Hanover at the age of 16 to study jazz and pop drums while still at school. At the same time he became the drummer of the German Federal Jazz Orchestra (‘Bundesjazzorchester’) and started touring throughout Europe and India. At the age of 19 he continued his studies of jazz music of all kinds at the University of the Arts Berlin with John Hollenbeck, Kurt Rosenwinkel and Greg Cohen.

Since then Julian has toured and recorded with dozens of European jazz and pop artists. He also played drums for Udo Lindenberg's 'Hinterm Horizont' and performed in various productions at the 'Theater des Westens' Berlin. Külpmann has received numerous awards including the Best Young European Musicians 2002 (USA), Skoda Jazz Award 2006 (Germany), Drummer of Tomorrow 2007 (G/A/CH), Future Sounds 2010 (Leverkusener Jazztage), WDR Jazzpreis 2010 and was even a semi-finalist at the world-famous Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition 2012 in Washington, D.C.

He is currently living in Berlin, where he continues to play and record for artists all over the place in the world of jazz, pop and soul.