Konstantin Bruns (born 1993) received his first violoncello lessons at the age of five with Heidemarie Beckert at the Georg Philipp Telemann Conservatory in Magdeburg. In September 2008 he joined the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Music High School in Berlin and has since been taking cello lessons with Prof. Stephan Forck at the Hanns Eisler University of Music. He received further artistic impulses at master classes given by Prof. Jens Peter Maintz, Prof. Troels Svane, Prof. Wolfram Geiss, Prof. Stephan Forck, Claudio Bohórquez, Prof. Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt and Prof. Peter Bruns.

As a soloist, he has performed with the Chamber Orchestra of the Magdeburg Conservatory, the Magdeburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the School Orchestra of the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Music High School and the Young Symphony Orchestra Berlin. From 2005 to 2010 he was a member of the German String Philharmonic Orchestra and participated in numerous concerts of this orchestra, among others in China, Malaysia and Montenegro.

Konstantin Bruns has already won several national and international prizes. At the Hans and Eugenia Jütting Competition in Stendal he achieved two second prizes and in 2007 a first prize as a soloist. He has won several first prizes at the national competition Jugend musiziert, both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. In 2011, together with his duo partner Alexander Psavke, he won a first prize in the national Jugend musiziert competition, a special prize in the Dussmann competition and a special prize from the Bertold Hummel Foundation in the WESPE competition. In October 2011 Konstantin Bruns was awarded first prize as soloist at the third International Hindemith Competition in Berlin.

For his outstanding achievements, Konstantin Bruns received a scholarship from the Stadtsparkasse Magdeburg in 2007 and a special prize from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben in 2010. Furthermore, he and his duo partner were awarded special prizes by the city of Cottbus and the Tonmeisterinstitut der Universität der Künste Berlin, combined with a CD production.

The Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben provides Konstantin Bruns with a violoncello by Giuseppe Pedrazzini (Milan 1942) from the German Musical Instrument Fund.