He founded and conducted a chamber choir at the university and recorded with them, including operas for the Kurt Weill Foundation.
Born in Oberhausen, Gundlach studied first to be an elementary teacher at the Pädagogische Hochschule (PH, School of education) in Braunschweig.
In 1980, he was appointed professor of music and its pedagogy ("Musik und ihre Didaktik") at the Technical University of Dortmund.
[1] Gundlach recorded choral music with the Kammerchor, including works by Hugo Distler und Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn.
7, for soloists and five-part choir a cappella, with Peter Kooy as vox Christi, Wilfried Jochens as the Evangelist, and Gerrit Miehlke as Pilate.
[12] In 2003, the ensemble performed a Magnificat in G major by Georg Philipp Telemann, while in 2004, the prepared cantata was Part VI from Bach's Christmas Oratorio, Fallt mit Danken.