Celina Anna Kintscher is a German-Austrian composer whose artistry is shaped by her life on three continents, having lived in Germany, South African, and the U.S. Her music merges African rhythms and figures with western classical harmony. Kintscher’s time in the United States has inspired unrestrained freedom and integrated global references in her works. Her compositions have been performed by Orchestra Senzaspine, Los Angeles Brass Alliances, Salastina, Carpe Diem String Quartet, Quatuor Diotima, Aperture Duo, soprano singers Hila Plitmann and Tony Arnold, as well as percussionists Lisa Pegher and Christian Benning. She is a 2022 and 2023 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award Finalist and was a Division Winner at the World Championships of Performing Arts in 2015, representing South Africa. Kintscher has studied with Richard Danielpour, Ian Krouse, Jörg Widmann, Derrick Skye, and Anthony Constantino. As a composer and concert host who organizes players and venues for new works frequently, Kintscher maintains a dual responsibility to the integrity of past works and the innovation of new music. She intermittently lectures at the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Upbeat Live Pre-Concert talks.