The cellist Peter Bruns has established an excellent reputation in the international music world as one of Germany’s leading cellists and cello teachers. Born in Berlin, he studied with Professor Peter Vogler at Berlin’s Hanns Eisler Academy of Music.

Peter Bruns has performed as soloist and chamber musician in renowned concert halls throughout all the continents, including the Berliner Philharmonie, the Carnegie Hall in New York, the Wigmore Hall in London, concert halls in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul, in the Semperoper Dresden, in the Leipziger Gewandhaus, as well as at the most important festivals including the Kuhmo, Bergen, Berlin and Dresden Music Festivals, the Budapest Spring Festival, the Seoul Spring Festival, and Gidon Kremer’s Lockenhaus festival.

Moreover, Bruns has performed as soloist with many major orchestras and has toured with the Staatskapelle Dresden as well as with the RAI, MDR and Berlin symphony orchestras. He has collaborated with conductors such as Giuseppe Sinopoli, Eliahu Inbal, Gianandrea Noseda, Christoph Prick, Marc Albrecht, and Bruno Weil.

His fascination with the ancient language of music and the instrumentation of the various stylistic periods have led to close collaborations with renowned orchestras in this field, in particular with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, with whom Peter Bruns has played on CDs and in concerts and festivals (Bergen, Brügge, Berlin, Regensburg, Köthen).

From 1993‐2000, Peter Bruns was the Artistic Director of the Moritzburg Festival. From 1998 to 2005, he was Professor for Cello at the Dresden Academy of Music, and since 2005, he has held the same position at the Academy of Music in Leipzig. Furthermore, Peter Bruns has led masterclasses in many German cities, as well as in London, New York, Switzerland, France, Sweden and Australia.

Peter Bruns has recorded a series of award-winning CDs including Brahms’s Cello Sonatas, Bach’s Six Suites for Cello Solo, the works of Gabriel Fauré, Ernest Bloch, Charles Koechlin and Robert Schumann, a recording of a Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach concert which won the Cannes Classical Award for “Best CD of the Year”, Antonin Dvorak’s works for cello and orchestra with the Staatskapelle Dresden and his highly acclaimed recordings of Haydn’s, Schumann’s and Volkmann’s Cello Concertos with the Mendelssohn Kammerorchester Leipzig.

The production of Images and Mirrors, published by GENUIN classics with Friedrich Gulda‘s concerto for cello and wind orchestra was followed by the CD Cosmopolitan Mendelssohn published by Klanglogo featuring pieces by Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Volkmann, Donizetti und Gade. His recently released CD set, Beethoven ‐ Most Complete! 1‐3 (2020) with pianist Annegret Kuttner may be the most complete set of recordings of Ludwig van Beethoven’s works for cello and piano. The recording is an homage to Beethoven, celebrating the composer’s 250th birthday.

Presently, Peter Bruns is the Artistic Director of the Mendelssohn Kammerorchester Leipzig, is a conductor, and regularly performs in Leipzig and on tours. Peter Bruns plays on a cello from Carlo Tononi, Venice, 1730, which was once owned by Pablo Casals.