Eduard was born in Siberia. He studied with Michail Khokhlov at the Gnessin Special school for gifted children and with Andrei Diev at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and gained his Postgraduate Diploma with Distinction as well as the Gold Medal for performance from the Royal Northern College of Music studying with Norma Fisher and the late Mark Ray.

Named among tomorrow's 10 great pianists to watch by the BBC Music Magazine, Eduard Kunz has performed and broadcast frequently with many major orchestras in the UK including BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Royal Scottish National Orchestra, The Hallé and The Ulster Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Welsh National Opera Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and The Philharmonia orchestras with conductors such as Christian Mandeal, Tugan Sokhiev, Edward Gardner, Gerard Schwarz, Lothar Koenigs, Garry Walker, Clark Rundell, Mark Stephenson, Alejandro Posada, Josep Caballe Domenech, Alexander Joel, Barry Wordsworth and David Angus amongst others.

Other important debuts have included Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin at the Berlin Philharmonie, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Orkest van het Oosten , Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse and Braunschweig Symphony orchestras and recitals at the Wigmore Hall and Royal Albert Hall in London, BBC Studios and Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, The Sage Gateshead, Louvre in Paris, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Winterthur Hall in Barcelona, as well as recitals in Rome, Rimini, Pinerolo, Andorra, Bilbao, Madrid, Milan and at the City of London, Tillingham, Cheltenham and St. Magnus festivals.

Recordings for radio include BBC3, Radio France, Deutschland Radio Kultur and Amro amongst many others.

Eduard is a laureate of eleven first prizes of International Piano Competitions including Dudley in the UK, Enschede in the Netherlands, Piraeus in Greece, Pinerolo and Sulmona in Italy, Andorra and The Grand Prix of George Enescu Competition in Bucharest.
Other awards included Silver medal from The Worshipful Company of Musicians in London, awards from Hattori and Musical Foundation, Dame Myra Hess and Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe as well as Spivakov Foundation and “Richter” award from the Rostropovich Foundation in Moscow.
Eduard is a Verbier Festival laureate and a former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist currently based in London.