Hans Kistler was born in Bad Kötzting and studied at the Universities of Regensburg and Edinburgh (Scottland). His formative teachers were Peter Gärtner (Regensburg Philharmonic Orchestra) and Josef Pacewicz(Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Glasgow). He is currently a member of the University of Regensburg Chamber Orchestra. In 2008, he appeared as soloist with them in the Konzerthaus in Berlin (2008) playing Leoš Janáček’s piano suite “On an Overgrown Path” in this arrangement for clarinet and string orchestra by Graham Buckland. His chamber partners include Gerold Huber (Munich) and Renaud Arbion (Tours, France). Since 2006 he has been a teacher of English and History at the Ortenburg Gymnasium in Oberviechtach.