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Renald Deppe was born in Bochum in 1955. He studied clarinet and composition at the Folkwang University in Essen and received his further musical education in Berlin and at the University of Music and the Performing Arts, Vienna. He has played the saxophone and clarinet in ensembles for classical, contemporary and improvised music. Deppe was the founder and the artistic director of several festivals and cultural initiatives. Parallel to his work as promoter, curator and concept designer of music projects aside from a mainstream catering to listening habits, Deppe made himself a name as a composer of several commissions. His work focuses on chamber music, music theatre, graphic-sheet music, interdisciplinary project design, installations and sound graphics. With his ensemble "Capella con Durezza", founded in 1992 and bringing together artists from all kinds of domains due to its varying instrumentation, Deppe systematically develops theme-oriented programmes (Kurt Weill, Charles Mingus, Bert Brecht, Duke Ellington, Second Viennese School, anthem, German Schlager, Hugo Wolf etc.), in which multimedia techniques (film, literature, performance) are employed in addition to jazz embellishments, as well as principles of contemporary music and its improvisation techniques. Renald Deppe defines this laughingly as "Arts festival configuration music - the structure and interactive relationship of individual experiences in one common context." About his second band project, the "Wachauer Pestbläser", of which musicians Gerd Jonke, Christoph Chech and others have been part of so far, Deppe says on his website ", The Wachauer Pestbläser understand themselves as a charitable association out of necessity with limited grip, founded for the inexpensive disport of the mind." As a musician Deppe performed at several international festivals (Saalfelden, Berlin, Moscow, Krakow, Budapest, Rome, St. Petersburg etc.), his graphic sheet music has been displayed repeatedly in galleries.