MatthiasPintscher
- Conductor
About Matthias
Music Director : Kansas City Symphony Creative Partner: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Matthias Pintscher is Music Director of the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra, appointed in the 2024-25 season. The 2025-26 season marks his sixth as Creative Partner at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Matthias recently 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.
This season, highlights include the world premiere performances of his new opera Das Kalte Herz, which he will conduct at Staatsoper Berlin and later at L’Opera Comique in a French reprise titled Nuit sans aube.
As guest conductor, Matthias makes debuts with Oregon Symphony and Munich Philharmonic and returns to Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Barcelona Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Boulez Ensemble. Recent highlights include tours with Kansas City Symphony and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, as well as debuts with Oslo Philharmonic and Spanish National Orchestra.
On the operatic stage, Matthias has conducted several productions for the Berliner Staatsoper (Wagner’s Lohengrin and The Flying Dutchman and Beat Furrer’s Violetter Schnee ), Wiener Staatsoper (Olga Neuwirth’s Orlando), Théatre du Châtelet in Paris and Staatsoper Unter den Linden.
Known equally as one of today’s foremost composers, Matthias’ works appear frequently on the programs of major symphony orchestras throughout the world. Matthias was composer in residence at Junge Deutsche Philharmonie for the 2023-24 season and 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.
Matthias is professor at The Julliard School since 2014 and is published by Boosey & Hawkes.
Contact
For availability and general enquiries:
Edward Pascall
For contracts, logistics and press:
Joy Pidsley
Representation
General management in Europe with Askonas Holt
Partner manager:
US: Opus 3 Artists, Jonathan Brill
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Season Highlights
Video
- Playing
Memorial Concert for Pierre Boulez 2016
Orchestra of LUCERNE FESTIVAL ACADEMY Alumni | Matthias Pintscher, conductor | Yeree Suh, soprano | Yi Wei Angus Lee, flute (Mémoriale) Credit: Lucerne Festival
When Stockhausen went to the Tate Modern // London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Simon Rattle
Conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, with Matthias Pintscher and Duncan Ward, the LSO performed Messiaen's Et exspecto resurrectionem morturom and Stockhausen's Gruppen for three orchestras for an audience in the Turbine Hall. Modern music in the home of modern art. Credit: London Symphony Orchestra
Ianotta: Intent on Resurrection / Matthias Pintscher•Karajan-Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker
Clara Iannotta: Intent on Resurrection – Spring or Some Such Thing (2014) for 17 musicians Conductor: Matthias Pintscher Karajan-Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker Recorded at the Philharmonie Berlin, 20 September 2021 Credit: Karajan-Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker
Photos
News
Matthias Pintscher conducts world premiere of his new opera 'Das kalte Herz'
Matthias Pintscher debuts with Orquesta Nacional de España
Alisa Weilerstein debuts with the Concertgebouworkest conducted by Matthias Pintscher
Matthias Pintscher begins residency with Junge Deutsche Philharmonie
Matthias Pintscher named Music Director of Kansas City Symphony
Matthias Pintscher returns to Berliner Philharmoniker
Matthias Pintscher debuts with the Staatskapelle Dresden
Matthias Pintscher returns to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Press
Nuit sans aube
Opera ComiqueMar 2026Quatre Waldmusik rythment les douze tableaux de cet opéra-féérie, des « passages » servant la dramaturgie où Matthias Pintscher fait rutiler son orchestre. Chauffé à blanc, l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France est entre de bonnes mains et darde ce soir ses plus belles couleurs." "Four Waldmusik pieces punctuate the twelve scenes of this magical opera, serving as dramatic ‘passages’ in which Matthias Pintscher brings his orchestra to life. In fine form, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France is in safe hands and is showcasing its finest sounds this evening.
- ResMusica
- 18 March 2026
Pintscher’s music captures this twilight world of suggestion and ambiguity with remarkable finesse... Conducting his own score, Pintscher led the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in a performance that revealed the work’s subtle textures and luminous colours with precision.
- my/maSCENA
- 17 March 2026
Mozart, Ravel and Pintscher
Walt Disney Concert HallNov 2025Pintscher expertly calibrated orchestral timbres here not just for dramatic effect, although the tension his build-up of climaxes accumulated was undeniably breathtaking. Emphasizing shivering strings, bassoons gurgling below, stopped horn notes and other details buried in most performances, Pintscher restored the frictive newness, the sense of danger that this score must have had when it was first heard.
- bachtrack
- 14 November 2025
Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastique
Music Hall, CincinnatiNov 2025 - Nov 2025Pintscher is an elegant and precise musical leader, whose interpretation in this work was rich with atmosphere and expressive detail. The first movement, “Reveries, Passions,” was invigorating and Pintscher conducted with momentum...The musicians performed superbly under Pintscher’s baton, and every moment of this remarkable score was vividly etched.
