Matthias Pintscher
• As a composer and conductor, Matthias Pintscher is an outstanding protagonist in the international music world.
• The delicate sonority of Pintscher’s charismatic music appeals to the emotions and senses.
• His unmistakable compositional signature style combines a contemporary vocabulary with tradition.
• He has attracted a wide audience worldwide as well as leading interpreters for his work.
• Composition studies with Giselher Klebe and Manfred Trojahn; further important creative impulses from Hans Werner Henze, Helmut Lachenmann, Pierre Boulez and Peter Eötvös.
• Received numerous prizes and scholarships as well as composition commissions.
• Has been artist and composer in residence at major international festivals and orchestras.
• Music director of the Ensemble intercontemporain for ten years.
• Currently Creative Partner of the Cincinnati Symphony and Music Director of the Kansas City Symphony and professor at the Juilliard School New York.
• Works until May 2024 are published by Bärenreiter.
Looking Ahead: works on his third full-evening music theatre piece (WP 2026)
“Sometimes composing for me is like imaginary drawing on an acoustic canvas...in order to sing, to speak, to breathe in this way. Evocative and introspective at the same time. Isn't it true that when we listen to music, we are actually listening to ourselves? Music is a portal to our own memories and feelings. What sounds in ourselves then resonates in the music of the other...” — Matthias Pintscher
Also visit the Matthias Pintscher website at www.matthiaspintscher.com