Matthias Pintscher

Matthias Pintscher is the music director of the Kansas City Symphony (KCS), effective from the 2024/25 season. He launched his KCS tenure with a highly successful tour to Europe in August 2024, with concerts at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Philharmonie Berlin and Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie. 

The 2024/25 season saw Pintscher in his fifth year as creative partner at the Cincinnati Symphony, where he conducted a subscription week and a Proof series concert. As guest conductor, he returned to the New York Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, Oslo Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony, Barcelona Symphony, Orquesta Nacional de España, Orchestre National de Radio France and Boulez Ensemble. He appears regularly with the New World Symphony in Miami, a training orchestra for post-conservatory, pre-professional musicians, and he has been on the composition faculty of the Juilliard School since 2014.

Pintscher is also well known as a composer, and his works appear frequently on the programs of major symphony orchestras throughout the world. His third violin concerto, Assonanza, written for Leila Josefowicz, was premiered in January 2022 with the Cincinnati Symphony. Another 2021/22 world premiere was neharot. In the 2016/17 season, he was the inaugural composer-in-residence of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, and from 2014 to 2017, he was artist-in-residence at the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, as well as composer-in-residence at Salzburg Festival and Lucerne Festival.