Matthias Pintscher

Matthias Pintscher (born 29 January 1971) is a German composer, conductor and academic teacher. Biography Pintscher was born in Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia. As a youth, he studied the violin and conducting. He began his music studies with Giselher Klebe in 1988 at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold in Detmold. In 1990, he met Hans Werner Henze, and in 1991 and 1992, he was invited to Henze’s summer school in Montepulciano, Italy. He later studied with German composer and flutist Manfred Trojahn. He held a Daniel R. Lewis Young Composer Fellowship with the Cleveland Orchestra from 2000 to 2002. With the 2014–2015 season, Pintscher became artist-in-residence with the Danish Radio for a period of three years. For the 2014–2015 season, he was the artist-in-residence at the Cologne Philharmonie. Pintscher concluded his tenure with the Ensemble intercontemporain at the close of the 2022–2023 season. In March 2023, Pintscher first guest conducted the Kansas City Symphony. On the basis of this appearance, the Kansas City Symphony announced in May 2023 the appointment of Pintscher as its next music director, effective with the 2024–2025 season, with an initial contract of five seasons. In Ju