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Philipp Maintz was born in Aachen in 1977, where he received his first composition lessons from Michael Reudenbach in 1993. From 1997 onwards,
he studied composition with Robert HP Platz at the Conservatorium in Maastricht, graduating with distinction in 2003. Further studies took him to
the Université de Liège, the IRCAM in Paris, and, from 2003 to 2005, to the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz under Karlheinz Essl.
Philipp Maintz has received numerous awards and scholarships: in 2005, he was awarded the Advancement Award of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.
This was followed by a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2007, a scholarship from the Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2009, and the
German Academy in Rome Villa Massimo scholarship in 2010. In 2013, he was Artiste résident at the Château de Chambord and was awarded the Free State of
Bavaria's Villa Concordia scholarship in 2015. Further invitations followed in 2018 from the Wilhelm Kempff Cultural Foundation in Positano, and in 2024,
he became a fellow of the German Federal Government at Casa Baldi in Olevano Romano.
His first major orchestral work, heftige landschaft mit 16 bäumen, was premiered by the SWR Symphony Orchestra at the Salzburg Festival in 2005. The Munich
Biennale for New Music Theatre opened in 2010 with the world premiere of his opera MALDOROR. In 2015, the Nuremberg State Philharmonic Orchestra premiered
his cello concerto upon a moment's shallow rim with Alban Gerhardt as the soloist. In 2017, the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, conducted by Christoph Eschenbach,
premiered his orchestral work hängende gärten at the Berlin Philharmonie. In 2019, his chamber opera THÉRÈSE was first performed at the Salzburg Easter Festival and
subsequently by the Hamburg State Opera at the Elbphilharmonie. During the 2020/21 season, he composed de figuris, a concerto for organ and orchestra commissioned by
BOZAR Brussels and the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, written for the organist László Fassang. That same season also saw the premiere of a revised version of
his piano concerto, performed by Joonas Ahonen and the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Marin Alsop. In the summer of 2022, the Aurora Orchestra under
Nicholas Collon presented his orchestral work red china green house at the Cologne Philharmonie. This was followed in 2024 by the premiere of der zerfall einer illusion in farbige scherben
by the WDR Symphony Orchestra under Sylvain Cambreling.
During the 2024/25 season, Philipp Maintz is honoured as Composer in Focus by the Aachen Symphony Orchestra, which performs four of his major works and a first performance.
In the same season, the premieres of jag die hunde zurück!, a work for six sopranos and six percussionists performed by Christoph Sietzen, his Ensemble Motus, and female singers of
the WDR Radio Choir at the Cologne Philharmonie, and his second string quartet maintenant. pas encore. plus jamais. by the Quatuor Diotima at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig took place.
Since 2005, Philipp Maintz's works have been published by Bärenreiter Verlag.
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