MatthiasPintscher

Matthias Pintscher is Music Director of the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra, appointed in the 24/25 season, and in August 2026 he was appointed Music Director Designate of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Pintscher will lead the ensemble in April 2027 before assuming the role of Music Director in the 27/28 season.

This season highlights include returns to the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Radio Sinfonie Berlin, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Boulez Ensemble and Musikkollegium Winterthur. He will also make his debut with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. In the US he will return to the Cincinnati Symphony (with whom he has enjoyed a long collaboration) and the Dallas, San Diego and Utah symphonies.

Alongside his distinguished conducting career, Pintscher is internationally acclaimed as a composer. His music is championed by many of today’s finest performing artists, conductors and orchestras, including the Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Orchestre de Paris. During the coming season, two new works will receive their world premieres: à tout moment (with Ensemble Intercontemporain) and an orchestral suite from his opera Das kalte Herz (with the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln) that had its debut earlier this year at the Staatsoper Berlin. He is published by Boosey and Hawkes; works written before 2023 are published by Bärenreiter.

Pintscher’s previous titled positions include Music Director of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, nine seasons as Artist-in-Association with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Principal Conductor of the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, Music Director of the 2020 Ojai Music Festival and Season Creative Chair of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. Born in Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Pintscher studied conducting with Pierre Boulez and Peter Eötvös.