Matthias Pintscher is the newly appointed Music Director of the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra effective from the 2024/25 season and since 2020/21, is Creative Partner at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. He 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.

Matthias kicked off his 2024-25 season with a tour of Europe with Kansans City Symphony and will continue with returns to the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Concertgebouworkest, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Radiosinfonie Berlin, Gurzenich Orchester Cologne, Barcelona and BBC Scottish symphonies and debuts with the Oslo Philharmonic and Spanish National orchestras.Recent highlights include RAI Milano Musica, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, NDR Hamburg, Indianapolis Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Lahti Symphony, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Filarmonica della Scala.

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.