Bernward Koch was born in January 1957 in Siegen/Westfalen, Germany. When he was 12 years, he started playing French Horn in the musical brass band of his village Wenden-Huensborn, but just a little bit later he changed to the trumpet “to be able to play more melodies”. Two years after he starts to be engaged in bass, guitar and drums. During that time he was playing in a beat-band. When he was 15 his father, an accordeon player, donated him a piano and he got his first piano lessons, but starts right now with improvisations and compositions, too.

His enthusiasm for music grew, especially for Jazz, Rock, Pop and Folk but also for classical music. In his early 20s he started studying at the music-university in cologne, meanwhile he took part (mostly together with his younger brother Christoph) in a lot of music seminars at the University of Bremen, Academy Remscheid and Schloß Weikersheim, e.g. teaching at Prof. Sigi Busch. In the meantime he played keyboards, drums and percussion in different Jazz-Rock-Bands. In 1990 for example an adventurous tournee led him and his Band The Brothers (= Pablo) to Moscow.

Besides Bernward Koch created piano-based instrumental-compositions -enriched with keyboards, flute, guitar and percussion-  with a relaxing, metaphorical character and his discernible tuneful signature. 1989  he signed his first deal for an instrumetal solo-project under his own name.

Nobody, who knows Koch`s music, will be surprised by his success: the artist composes pieces of outstanding formal maturity with an astonishing musical finesse. For Bernward Koch himself music means telling stories.
His piano-based arrangements are always marked by a tasteful balance of natural and synthetic sounds,  mixed with the organic pulse of a real flesh and blood percussionist and guitar player (Bernward`s brother Christoph); and the exqusite flute playing of his wife Christiane Böhm has over the years become a trademark feature in his sound.

Bernward Kochs music unfolds a soothing and seductive charm - so by degrees there are and there will be many listeners under its spell.