Education
After finishing high school, he studied History and Philosophy in Düsseldorf. During 1992 - 1998 he studied composition at the Folkwanghochschule in Essen, with Wolfgang Hufschmidt. At the Rotterdam Hogeschool voor Muziek en Dans, he completed his studies in composition with Peter-January Wagemans and Klaas de Vries in April 2002.
Career
In his youth, he received piano lessons and wrote his first compositions. He also had private composition lessons with David Graham and Ratko Delorko. He participated in masterclasses of Manfred Trojahn, Edison Denisov and George Crumb, amongst others
In 1998, Andreas Kunstein received the scholarship of the Otmar Alternate 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.