Rainer Linz, is an Australian composer who has worked in a variety of areas - producing radio, instrumental, vocal and performance pieces. Born in 1955 in Essen, West Germany and when he was five years old his family emigrated and settled in Sydney.

He gained his degree in Music at Adelaide University, in 1976. Linz completed postgraduate studies at the Musikhochschule in Cologne, Germany, with Mauricio Kagel and returned to Australia in 1979, and has lived in Melbourne ever since.