Composer and guitarist, born in Bamberg (Upper Franconia). At the age of 6, he received his first music lessons. At the age of 17, he began, initially self-taught, the guitar playing and dealt primarily with fingerstyle, ragtime and blues. At the age of 22 he took lessons in classical guitar and studied from 1984 to 1988 at the conservatory in Nuremberg in the class of Kurt Hiesl. After studying music, Rainer Brunn increasingly devoted himself to composing and published numerous pieces with Edition Margaux in Berlin. In the classical area followed numerous concerts both solo and chamber music among others with Carlo Domeniconi, Dietmar Ungerank and Ewa Margareta Cyran. In addition, his interest in Irish and American folk music grew. He played in various folk and blues formations such as “Musgrave”, “Asylum String Band”, “Acoustic Drive” and “River Road”.In recent years, Rainer Brunn again appeared solo on more. His program “Jewels of Acoustic Blues” has received enthusiastic applause at numerous concerts and has won many friends. Rainer Brunn has been teaching guitar since 1985 at the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, the E.T.A. Hoffmann Gymnasium and the municipal music school in Bamberg. (Rainer Stelle)