Andreas Kunstein

Andreas Kunstein (born 25 June 1967) is a German composer who was born in Brühl (North Rhine-Westphalia). In his youth, he received piano lessons and wrote his first compositions. After finishing high school, he studied history and philosophy in Düsseldorf.

He also had private composition lessons with David Graham and Ratko Delorko. During 1992–1998 he studied composition at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, with . At the Rotterdam Hogeschool voor Muziek en Dans, he completed his studies in composition with Peter-Jan Wagemans and Klaas de Vries in April 2002. He participated in masterclasses of Manfred Trojahn, Edison Denisov and George Crumb, amongst others.

His ''13 Epigrams for Orchestra'' were nominated for the Dutch Young Composers Prize in 2000. In 1998, Andreas Kunstein received the scholarship of the Otmar Alt Foundation and in 2003 he received a scholarship of the Kulturfonds Foundation for the "Künstlerhaus Lukas".

Andreas Kunstein is counted as one of the Rotterdam School composers. Provided by Wikipedia