Ulf Wallin studied in Stockholm with Sven Karpe and in Vienna with Wolfgang Schneiderhan. His artistic collaborators including conductors Manfred Honeck, Paavo Järvi, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Franz Welser-Möst as well as Bruno Canino, Barbara Hendricks, Heinz Holliger and Roland Pöntinen. His dedication to contemporary music is highlighted by his close contacts with several eminent composers among them Alfred Schnittke and Rodion Shchedrin. 

He has made numerous radio, and television appearances and more than 50 CD recordings (BIS, cop, EMI and BMG), have gained much acclaim and attention from the international media.

Ulf Wallin has appeared at numerous major festivals and in some of the world’s leading venues, including the Berlin Philharmonie, La Scala di Milano, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées Paris, London’s Wigmore Hall and the Musikverein in Vienna. 

He is professor of violin at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. He has served on juries for major international competitions including the ARD Competition in Munich, the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition in Hannover, Paganini Concorso Internazionale di Violino in Genova and the Fritz Kreisler Violin Competition in Vienna. 

In 2013 he was awarded the Robert-Schumann-Preis der Stadt Zwickau and in 2014 he was elected into the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.