Ralf Bölting, born in Lage, studied Kirchenmusik at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold (Organ with Helmut Paulus Tramnitz, Composition with Dietrich Manicke).
Since 1979, he is organist and Kantor of the Kilianskirche in Bad Salzuflen-Schötmar (Westphalia) and, from 1981 to 1992, he was lecturer in Music Theory at the Nordwestdeutschen Musikakademie in Detmold.