Biography

An equally accomplished conductor and composer, Matthias Pintscher has created significant works for the world’s leading orchestras and regularly conducts throughout Europe, the United States and Australia. His works are known for the delicate sound world they inhabit, the intricacy of their construction and their precision of expression. Musical Director of the Ensemble Intercontemporain and Professor at the Juilliard School, he became Principal Conductor of the Lucerne Festival Academy in 2016/17. He is also Artist in Association with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the inaugural Composer in Residence and featured artist at the new Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg.

Pintscher regularly works with leading contemporary music ensembles, such as the Sharoun Ensemble, as well as with many orchestras. His work is performed by soloists such as Peter Zimmermann, Truls Mørk and Emmanuel Pahud. His works are published exclusively by Bärenreiter, and recordings of his compositions can be found on Kairos, EMI, Teldec, Wergo, and Winter & Winter. Matthias Pintscher is a successful and prolific composer. He has created two operas: Thomas Chatterton, an order from the Dresden Opera and L’Espace dernier, performed as world premiere at the Opéra de Paris. He has also composed many works for orchestra, the latest of which, Idyll, was premiered by the Cleveland Orchestra in October 2014. Alisa Weilerstein has recently premiered his new cello concert. 

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