After his studies at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler"[2] with Peter Vogler Bruns became the first solo cellist at the Staatskapelle Dresden.
Bruns has performed at solo concerts around the world, including the Berlin and Dresden Music Festivals, the Budapest Spring Festival, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Dresden Semperoper, New York Carnegie Hall, London Wigmore Hall, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
In 1990 Bruns founded the Dresden Piano Trio together with Kai Vogler[3] and Roglit Ishay.
Between 1998 and 2005 he was professor at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber and since 2005 at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig.
The cellist produced recordings together with other renowned orchestras such as the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester and the Mendelssohn Kammerorchester Leipzig.