Philipp Maintz was born in 1977 in Aachen, where he took his first composition lessons with Michael Reudenbach from 1993. From 1997 he studied composition with Robert HP Platz at the Conservatorium in Maastricht, graduating with distinction in 2003. Further study visits followed at the Université de Liège and at IRCAM in Paris, and from 2003 to 2005 with Karlheinz Essl Bruckner Conservatory in Linz. Philipp Maintz has received numerous awards and scholarships: in 2005 he was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Prize. This was followed in 2007 by a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, in 2009 by a scholarship from the Akademie Schloss Solitude and in 2010 by a scholarship from the German Academy in Rome Villa Massimo. In 2013 he was artiste résident at Château de Chambord and in 2015 he was awarded a scholarship from the Free State of Bavaria for the Villa Concordia. In 2018, an invitation from the Wilhelm Kempff Kulturstiftung to Positano followed.

At the 2005 Salzburg Festival, the SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra gave the world premiere of his first major orchestral work, violently landscape with 16 trees.

The Munich Biennale for New Music Theatre opened in 2010 with the world premiere of his opera Maldoror. In 2015 his cello concerto upon a moment’s shallow rim was premiered by the Nuremberg State Philharmonic with Alban Gerhardt as soloist, in 2017 the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Christoph Eschenbach premiered the orchestral work hanging gardens at the Berlin Philharmonie and in 2019 the chamber opera Thérèse was performed at the Salzburg Easter Festival and by the Hamburg State Opera at the Elbphilharmonie. Most recently, the Concerto for Organ and Orchestra de figuris was commissioned by BOZAR Brussels and the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, as well as a new version of the Piano Concerto, which was premiered by Joonas Ahonen and the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna under Marin Alsop.

Philipp Maintz has enjoyed a close musical partnership with Hansjörg Albrecht for several years. Joint premières and first performances have so far been given in concert halls and cathedrals in Paris, Dortmund, Hamburg, Dresden, Cologne, Munich and Passau, among others.

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