Jens Peter Maintz

A native of Hamburg, the cellist Jens Peter Maintz studied with David Geringas and attended master classes with Heinrich Schiff, Boris Pergamenschikow, and Siegfried Palm. He won the ARD Music Competition in 1994 and, a short time later, was appointed first principal cellist with the DSO Berlin. He moved to Berlin’s University of the Arts as a professor in 2004. His solo career has led him to work with Herbert Blomstedt, Reinhard Goebel, Marek Janowski, and Franz Welser-Möst; he has also performed many works by contemporary composers. Maintz was a member of the Trio Fontenay, and he has also played chamber music with the casalQuartett and the Artemis and the Auryn Quartets and with Kolja Blacher, Wolfram Christ, Isabelle Faust, Hélène Grimaud, Janine Jansen, and Antoine Tamestit. With Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt he forms the duo “Cello Duello.” Maintz has played principal cello with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra since 2006.

July 2023