Jens Peter Maintz won first prize in the international ARD competition. The first prize had not been awarded for 17 years. He was prizewinner in the 1993 Leonard Rose Competition, first prizewinner at the International Cello Competition in Scheveningen and at the German Music Competition. He was principal cellist of the Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin and has been principal cellist of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra under the direction of Claudio Abbado since 1996. He has performed with conductors Vladimir Ashkenazy, Herbert Blomstedt, Marek Janowski, Franz Welser-Möst and Bobby McFerrin, performing with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSO), the Leipzig MDR Symphony Orchestra, the Stuttgart RSO, the Residentie Orkest of The Hague and the Berlin Komische Oper Orchestra. Jens Peter Maintz has performed as member of Spectrum Concerts Berlin since 1995. He also performs regularly with the Schleswig Holstein Festival, the Lucerne Festival and the Rheingau Festival and is a popular guest at the chamber music festivals in Utrecht, Dubrovnik and Kuhmo. His debut CD released by Sony Classical with works by Bach, Kodaly and Dutilleux received the ECHO Klassik award. He recorded Isang Yun’s cello concerto for Capriccio and with Arte Nova a CD of romantic repertoire from the Circle of Tchaikovsky. In 2008 Berlin Classics released his recording of Joseph Haydn’s cello concertos with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. David Geringas was his primary instructor. Jens Peter Maintz is professor at the University of Arts Berlin and plays cellos made by Vincenzo Rugeri dated 1696 and by Wolfgang Schnabl dated 2010.
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