MATTHIAS PINTSCHER

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Matthias Pintscher is the newly appointed Music Director of the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra effective from the 2024/25 season and also, since 2020/21, is Creative Partner at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

He has just concluded a successful decade-long tenure as the Music Director of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the iconic Parisian contemporary ensemble, founded by Pierre Boulez, and winner of the 2022 Polar Prize. During his stewardship, Pintscher led this most adventurous institution in the creation of dozens of world premieres by cutting edge composers from all over the world and took the ensemble on tours to Asia, North America and throughout Europe to all the major festivals and concert halls.

 One of today’s foremost composers, Matthias’ works appear frequently on the programs of major symphony orchestras throughout the world, many of whom Pintscher also conducts.  In August 2021, he was the focus of the Suntory Hall Summer Festival – a weeklong celebration of his works with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra as well as a residency by the EIC with symphonic and chamber music performances. His third violin concerto, Assonanza, written for Leila Josefowicz, was premiered in January 2022 with the Cincinnati Symphony and during the 2023/24 season Matthias was composer in residence of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie.

A highlight of the 2024/25 season includes his return to the New York Philharmonic Orchestra when he will conduct the US premiere of his orchestral work ‘Neharot.’

Photo: Felix Broede