{"id":12817,"date":"2024-06-12T12:02:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T10:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emag.baerenreiter.com\/pintscher-matthias\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T14:56:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:56:02","slug":"pintscher-matthias","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/emag.baerenreiter.com\/en\/pintscher-matthias\/","title":{"rendered":"Pintscher, Matthias"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Matthias Pintscher<\/span><\/h1>
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Biography<\/span><\/h2>
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Matthias Pintscher was born in Marl in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1971 and studied composition with Giselher Kleber and Manfred Trojahn. The encounters with Hans Werner Henze, who invited him to Montepulciano in 1991 and 1992, as well as with Helmut Lachenmann, Pierre Boulez and Peter E\u00f6tv\u00f6s were also formative. Among the awards were u. a. 1st prize at the Hitzacker composition competition (1992), the Rolf Liebermann prize and the opera prize of the K\u00f6rber Foundation in Hamburg (1993 and 1996), the Prix Prince Pierre de Monaco (1999), the composition prize at the Salzburg Easter Festival and the Hindemith Prize of the Schleswig Holstein Music Festival (2000). In 2002 he received the Hans Werner Henze Prize (Westphalian Music Prize). Pintscher first attracted international attention with the opera “Thomas Chatterton” at the Dresden Semperoper (1998), later with his second opera “L’espace dernier” at the Op\u00e9ra National de Paris (2004). In 2002 he was “composer in residence” with the Cleveland Orchestra, followed by the Konzerthaus Dortmund, Lucerne Festival, RSO Saarbr\u00fccken, the K\u00f6lner Philharmonie and the RSO Stuttgart des SWR. From 2010-18 he was artist-in-association with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, from 2014-17 artist-in-residence at the Danish Radio Orchestra and in the 2016-17 season he was the first composer-in-residence at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. In August 2021 he was the focus of the Suntory Hall Summer Festival. His Violin Concerto No. 3, “Assonanza”, written for Leila Josefowicz, was premiered in January 2022 with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Another premiere in the 2021\/22 season was “neharot”, a joint commission from Suntory Hall, Orchester Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchester de la Suisse Romande, Los Angeles Philharmonic and Staatskapelle Dresden.<\/p>\n

As a conductor, Matthias Pintscher works regularly with major orchestras and ensembles in Europe and the USA, such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Since 2013\/14 he has been music director of the Ensemble intercontemporain Paris. In the 2020\/21 season, he began a three-year stint as the new Creative Partner of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Pintscher has also conducted several opera productions for the Berlin State Opera (Beat Furrer’s “Violet Snow”, Wagner’s “Lohengrin”), the Vienna State Opera (Olga Neuwirth’s “Orlando”) and the Th\u00e9atre du Ch\u00e2telet in Paris.<\/p>\n

From 2007 to 2009 he was a professor of composition at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und Theater in Munich, and from 2010 to 2011 he taught at New York University. Since 2014 he has been professor of composition at the Juilliard School of Music in New York.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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