Studied accordion with Elsbeth Moser, Friedrich Lips, and Mogens Ellegaard. Since his stage debut in 1993, performing a chamber music programme at the Wien Modern festival, he has been active as a soloist as well as an ensemble and orchestra musician with a focus on world premieres, both in Austria (for instance from 1995 onwards with Klangforum Wien, Vienna RSO, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, at steirischer herbst, and the Salzburg Festival) and abroad (for instance at the Festival d’Automne Paris, the Darmstadt Summer Course, and with the SWR Symphony Orchestra). Georg Schulz has also arranged and performed for numerous theatre productions. Since 2000, he has held positions in the academic self-governance of KUG Graz, served from 2007 to 2012 as its rector and has assumed this role again since 2020.