MATTHIAS PINTSCHER

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Conductor-composer Matthias Pintscher is the Music Director of the Ensemble Intercontemporain. Over the last decade, he has continued and expanded the cultivation of new works by emerging composers of the 21st century alongside performances of iconic works by the pillars of the avant-garde of the 20th century.

Pintscher enjoys and maintains relationships with several of the world’s most distinguished orchestras, among them the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. He is also Creative Partner for the Cincinnati Symphony. In the 2022-23 season, Matthias makes debut appearances with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony, Wiener Symphoniker, and Gürzenich Orchester of Cologne, in addition to return visits to the Baltimore Symphony, Detroit Symphony, New World Symphony, Barcelona Symphony, and Berlin’s Boulez Ensemble.

Pintscher is well known as a composer, and his works appear frequently on the programs of major symphony orchestras throughout the world, including the Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the Orchestre de Paris, among many others. His cello concerto Un Despertar was premiered in 2017 by Alisa Weilerstein and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

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