Nick Pfefferkorn was born in Leipzig in 1976. At the age of 7, he took up playing the trombone and later the bassoon, the instrument that has accompanied him to this day. After his school education and civilian service, he first completed a commercial apprenticeship. Then, in 1996, he founded the Pfefferkorn Musikverlag, an independent publishing house, which he continued to run even during his music studies in Leipzig (1997–2003, majoring in bassoon and conducting). From 2004, he worked as a full-time publisher and editor. In 2015, Nick Pfefferkorn took over as publishing director of the Wiesbaden-based music publishing house Breitkopf & Härtel, since 2017 also chairing the latter as a personally liable partner.