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

Pintscher recently concluded a decade-long tenure as the Music Director of the Ensemble Intercontemporain (EIC), the iconic Parisian contemporary ensemble founded by Pierre Boulez and winner of the 2022 Polar Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy. During his stewardship, he led this adventurous institution in the creation of dozens of world premieres, made recordings of music by cutting edge composers from all over the world, and took the ensemble on tours around the globe – to Asia, North America, and throughout Europe to all the major festivals and concert halls.

The 2024-25 season will see Pintscher in his fifth year as Creative Partner at the Cincinnati Symphony, where he will conduct a subscription week and a Proof series concert. As guest conductor, he returns 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 the Boulez Ensemble.