Jens Peter Maintz enjoys an outstanding reputation as a versatile soloist, highly sought-after chamber musician and committed cello teacher. He studied with David Geringas and has participated in masterclasses with Heinrich Schiff, Boris Pergamenschikow and Frans Helmerson.

In 1994 he won First Prize at the ARD international Music Competition, which had previously not been awarded to a cellist for 17 years.

As a soloist he has performed with conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Herbert Blomstedt and Dmitrij Kitajenko, appearing with orchestras including the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Den Haag Residenz-Orchester and Tokyo Symphony Orchestra.

He has served as a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts since 2004, and the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid since 2017.

Maintz has been principal cellist of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra since 2006, which he joined at the invitation of Claudio Abbado.

He received an ECHO Klassik award for his solo album of works by Bach, Dutilleux and Kodály, released on Sony Classical. Jens Peter Maintz plays the ‘Ex-Servais’ cello made by Giovanni Grancino in 1697.