Celina Kintscher
About this Artist
Celina Anna Kintscher is a German-Austrian composer whose artistry is shaped by her life on three continents. Her music merges African rhythms and figures with Western classical harmony. Kintscher’s time in the United States has inspired unrestrained freedom and integrated global references in her works. Her works have been performed by Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, Orchestra Senzaspine, LAB-A, Salastina, Carpe Diem String Quartet, Quatuor Diotima, Aperture Duo, Hila Plitmann, Tony Arnold, and percussionists Lisa Pegher and Christian Benning. She is a 2022 and 2023 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award Finalist and was a Division Winner at the World Championships of Performing Arts in 2015, representing South Africa. She has studied with Richard Danielpour, Ian Krouse, Jörg Widmann, and Anthony Constantino.
Kintscher maintains a dual responsibility to the integrity of past works and the innovation of new music. An audience can always tell when a musical narrative is built upon truth. The search for this artistic truth and authenticity is what drives Kintscher’s pre-concert talks as she strives to present each composer in the context of the time period that motivated their works. Personal burdens can become modulations in symphonies, and as a composer and concert host who organizes players and venues for new works frequently, Kintscher knows how to bring out these original artistic intentions in her players and illuminate them for her audiences.