Born December 1955 in Stuttgart, Germany, Kuno studied piano and composition at Stuttgart University for Music and Performing Arts. At the age of 11, he listened to a record of Oscar Peterson which led him straight to jazz music. He was also interested in electric keyboard-oriented jazz/fusion.

As a pianist/keyboardist, Kuno traveled through Europe, North Africa and the United States. He had an engagement at New York's Village Vanguard and a performance at the Hollywood Bowl. Kuno had an artist contract with New York-based label Big World Music. He also produced records for Blue Note. As a jazz musician, he played/recorded with Billy Cobham, Robben Ford, Anthony Jackson, Ernie Watts, Toots Thielemans, Russel Ferrante, Joe Zawinul, Chaka Khan, Alex Acuna and many others.

At age 21, Kuno started arranging and composing orchestral music for all kinds of records and received GEMA's Orchestral Composition Award. (GEMA is a European performance rights organization much like BMI and ASCAP in the USA). Kuno earned two gold records for commercial music productions.

"I had the opportunity to work with director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Patriot). I composed a twenty minute orchestral score for his last movie Moon 44, before he immigrated to the USA. Unfortunately, my music was not used for the final version of the film. I live near Stuttgart and work mainly as a pianist, composer/arranger. I have my own studio and record and mix most of the productions I'm working on."