Jonas Hauer, born in 1978, has been blind since the age of two. He studied piano and instrumental pedagogy from 1999 to 2005 at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar and the Universität der Künste Berlin. Since 2006 he has been working throughout Germany as a pianist/keyboardist, accordionist, composer and arranger, both as a soloist and with bands and ensembles of various musical styles. In recent years, he has also realised numerous audio description projects with various audio film authors, primarily in the areas of cinema and television, but also for museums and exhibitions.