Born in Linz, Schulz, violinist Gerhard Schulz' older brother, received his first flute lessons from 1956 with Christiane Schwamberger and Willi Bauer at the Music School in Linz, followed by training with Rudolf Leitner at the Anton Bruckner Private University.
[1] From 1979 Schulz taught flute as a concert subject at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
Among his students were Gisela Mashayekhi-Beer, Christian Landsmann, Elizabeth Pring, Günther Voglmayr, Clemens Gadenstätter [de], Krzysztof Kaczka, Michael Martin Kofler, Karin Leitner and Helmut Trawöger.
In 1983 he founded the "Ensemble Wien-Berlin", a woodwind quintet consisting of soloists from the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic, to which he belonged throughout his life.
[2] With his son Matthias Schulz, also a flautist and since 2005 engaged in the Vienna State Opera Stage Orchestra, he performed together again and again.