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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.