The 2022-23 season is Matthias Pintscher's last as the musical Conductor of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the world's leading contemporary music ensemble founded in 1976 by Pierre Boulez. In his decade-long artistic direction of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pintscher has continued and expanded the highlighting of new works by emerging 21st-century composers alongside performances of iconic works from the 20th-century avant-garde. In the 2020-21 season Matthias has been announced as a creative partner of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

Matthias began his musical training in conducting with Hungarian composer and Conductor conductor Peter Eötvös during his twenties, a period when composition took a more prominent role in his life. Soon after, he divided his time equally between conducting and composition studying with teacher and mentor Pierre Boulez, soon rising to critical prominence and, more recently, to conducting as a principal role.

In 2022-23, as a guest Conductor in Europe, he debuts with the Vienna Symphoniker, the Gürzenich Orchester in Cologne, and returns to the Royal Concertgebouw, the BRSO, the BBC Scottish Symphony, the Barcelona Symphony, and the Boulez Ensemble. In North America he will debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Kansas City Symphony, as well as regularly visiting the Cincinnati Symphony as Creative Partner and returning with the Detroit Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and New World Symphony. Pintscher has also conducted several opera productions for the Berliner Staatsoper( Beat Furrer'sVioletter Schnee, Wagner's Lohengrin ), the Wiener Staatsoper( Olga Neuwirth'sOrlando ) and the Théatre du Châtelet in Paris. He will return to the Berliner Staatsoper in 2023 for Die Fliegende Holländer.

He is also known as one of today's leading composers. Recent debuts include the premiere of his Cello Concerto Un Despertar performed by Alisa Weilerstein and the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the premiere of his new work for baritone, chorus and orchestra, performed by Georg Nigl and the Chorus and Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks at their Musica Viva festival. In 2022 Matthias' third violin concerto, Assonance II, was premiered by the Cincinnati Symphony with Leila Josefowicz. Also performed in 2021-22 was the world premiere of Neharot, a co-commission of Suntory Hall, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Los Angeles Philharmonic and Staatskapelle Dresden, where he was appointed Capell-Compositeur. Matthias has also been a professor at the Julliard School since 2014 and is published by Bärenreiter-Verlag.