Stefan Grasse was born in Munich, Germany in 1962 and studied jazz and classical guitar with Peter O'Mara (Munich Jazz School), Kurt Hiesl (Nuernberg Conservatory), Phillip Thorne (Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow) and Pepe Romero (International Summer Academy, Salzburg). He has been awarded Bavarian Radio scholarships, the Royal Scottish Academy's Guitar Challenge Prize 1991, the Scottish Society of Composers Award 1991, the City of Nuernberg Cultural Award (Nuernberg Scholarship 1996) and the Cultural Award 2004 of the Kulturforum Franken. Concert tours have taken him to Scotland, England, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Czechia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Australia, China, a nd the USA (including the Concierto de Aranjuez). Amongst many others, mostly commissioned by himself, Stefan Grasse has given first performances of works by Janet Beat, Volker Blumenthaler, Dieter Buwen, Heinrich J. Hartl, Nicky Hind, Stefan Hippe, Adriana Hölszky, Samual Magrill, Eddie McGuire, and Vivienne Olive.