His passion for chamber music led him to further studies at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart and to five formative years in Günter Pichler’s class at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid, supported by scholarships from the Fundación Albéniz and Santander Consumer Bank AG. He later completed a master’s degree with the Artemis Quartet at the Berlin University of the Arts, followed by additional quartet studies in Munich.
Pinchas has received artistic inspiration from masterclasses with Ana Chumachenco, Natalia Prishepenko, Ulf Hoelscher, Heime Müller, Christoph Poppen, Michael Tree, Gerhard Schulz, Ferenc Rados, Eberhard Feltz, Corina Belcea, Alfred Brendel and many others. He collaborates regularly with musicians such as Fazil Say, Ray Chen, María Dueñas, Arabella Steinbacher, Jörg Widmann, Boris Berezovsky and Sabine Meyer.
As a co-founder of the Goldmund Quartet, he performs on leading international stages and at renowned festivals worldwide. The quartet was named Rising Stars by the European Concert Hall Organisation for the 2019/20 season. Since then . Since then, the ensemble has toured extensively throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and the United States in many famous concert halls.
The Goldmund Quartet’s recordings have received exceptional praise from BBC Music Magazine, The Strad, Gramophone, American Record Guide, Applaus, Bayerischer Rundfunk and others. Their performances have been broadcast by BR, SWR, NDR, WDR, RBB, ORF, Radio Classique, Radio Klassik Stephansdom, Deutschlandradio, ARD alpha and einsfestival.
Pinchas has been honoured with numerous awards, including several prizes at Jugend musiziert and the Sparkasse Förderpreis. With the Goldmund Quartet, he won the 1st Prize at the Kulturkreis Gasteig Competition (2013) and the International Schoenfeld String Competition in Harbin (2014). Further accolades include the German Music Competition scholarship, the Bavarian Arts Promotion Prize, the Special Prize of the Karl Klingler Foundation at the ARD Competition (2016), the 2nd Prize at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition (2018) and the 1st Prize at the International Chamber Music Competition in Melbourne. The quartet most recently received the Music Prize of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation and was entrusted with the set of four Stradivari instruments known as the “Paganini Quartet” by the Nippon Foundation.
As a soloist, Pinchas has performed with the Augsburg Chamber Orchestra, the Baden-Baden Philharmonic, the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. He also appeared for many years in the Munich Philharmonic’s children’s concerts under Heinrich Klug.
Since 2017 he has taught at the Streicherakademie Puchheim, working with highly talented young string players. He regularly gives masterclasses across Europe, including at the Konzerthaus Dortmund, Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Sawallisch Foundation and Haus Marteau. Since winter 2023 he has served as Acting Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at the Karlsruhe University of Music, and from 2023 to 2025 he also taught a violin class at the University of Music Munich.
Pinchas performs on an Antonio Stradivari violin (Paganini/Desaint 1680), generously loaned by the Nippon Foundation in Tokyo.
Pinchas has received artistic inspiration from masterclasses with Ana Chumachenco, Natalia Prishepenko, Ulf Hoelscher, Heime Müller, Christoph Poppen, Michael Tree, Gerhard Schulz, Ferenc Rados, Eberhard Feltz, Corina Belcea, Alfred Brendel and many others. He collaborates regularly with musicians such as Fazil Say, Ray Chen, María Dueñas, Arabella Steinbacher, Jörg Widmann, Boris Berezovsky and Sabine Meyer.
As a co-founder of the Goldmund Quartet, he performs on leading international stages and at renowned festivals worldwide. The quartet was named Rising Stars by the European Concert Hall Organisation for the 2019/20 season. Since then . Since then, the ensemble has toured extensively throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and the United States in many famous concert halls.
The Goldmund Quartet’s recordings have received exceptional praise from BBC Music Magazine, The Strad, Gramophone, American Record Guide, Applaus, Bayerischer Rundfunk and others. Their performances have been broadcast by BR, SWR, NDR, WDR, RBB, ORF, Radio Classique, Radio Klassik Stephansdom, Deutschlandradio, ARD alpha and einsfestival.
Pinchas has been honoured with numerous awards, including several prizes at Jugend musiziert and the Sparkasse Förderpreis. With the Goldmund Quartet, he won the 1st Prize at the Kulturkreis Gasteig Competition (2013) and the International Schoenfeld String Competition in Harbin (2014). Further accolades include the German Music Competition scholarship, the Bavarian Arts Promotion Prize, the Special Prize of the Karl Klingler Foundation at the ARD Competition (2016), the 2nd Prize at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition (2018) and the 1st Prize at the International Chamber Music Competition in Melbourne. The quartet most recently received the Music Prize of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation and was entrusted with the set of four Stradivari instruments known as the “Paganini Quartet” by the Nippon Foundation.
As a soloist, Pinchas has performed with the Augsburg Chamber Orchestra, the Baden-Baden Philharmonic, the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. He also appeared for many years in the Munich Philharmonic’s children’s concerts under Heinrich Klug.
Since 2017 he has taught at the Streicherakademie Puchheim, working with highly talented young string players. He regularly gives masterclasses across Europe, including at the Konzerthaus Dortmund, Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Sawallisch Foundation and Haus Marteau. Since winter 2023 he has served as Acting Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at the Karlsruhe University of Music, and from 2023 to 2025 he also taught a violin class at the University of Music Munich.
Pinchas performs on an Antonio Stradivari violin (Paganini/Desaint 1680), generously loaned by the Nippon Foundation in Tokyo.
As a co-founder of the Goldmund Quartet, he performs on leading international stages and at renowned festivals worldwide. The quartet was named Rising Stars by the European Concert Hall Organisation for the 2019/20 season. Since then . Since then, the ensemble has toured extensively throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and the United States in many famous concert halls.
The Goldmund Quartet’s recordings have received exceptional praise from BBC Music Magazine, The Strad, Gramophone, American Record Guide, Applaus, Bayerischer Rundfunk and others. Their performances have been broadcast by BR, SWR, NDR, WDR, RBB, ORF, Radio Classique, Radio Klassik Stephansdom, Deutschlandradio, ARD alpha and einsfestival.
Pinchas has been honoured with numerous awards, including several prizes at Jugend musiziert and the Sparkasse Förderpreis. With the Goldmund Quartet, he won the 1st Prize at the Kulturkreis Gasteig Competition (2013) and the International Schoenfeld String Competition in Harbin (2014). Further accolades include the German Music Competition scholarship, the Bavarian Arts Promotion Prize, the Special Prize of the Karl Klingler Foundation at the ARD Competition (2016), the 2nd Prize at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition (2018) and the 1st Prize at the International Chamber Music Competition in Melbourne. The quartet most recently received the Music Prize of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation and was entrusted with the set of four Stradivari instruments known as the “Paganini Quartet” by the Nippon Foundation.
As a soloist, Pinchas has performed with the Augsburg Chamber Orchestra, the Baden-Baden Philharmonic, the Bad Reichenhall Philharmonic and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. He also appeared for many years in the Munich Philharmonic’s children’s concerts under Heinrich Klug.
Since 2017 he has taught at the Streicherakademie Puchheim, working with highly talented young string players. He regularly gives masterclasses across Europe, including at the Konzerthaus Dortmund, Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon, Sawallisch Foundation and Haus Marteau. Since winter 2023 he has served as Acting Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at the Karlsruhe University of Music, and from 2023 to 2025 he also taught a violin class at the University of Music Munich.
Pinchas performs on an Antonio Stradivari violin (Paganini/Desaint 1680), generously loaned by the Nippon Foundation in Tokyo.
Pinchas performs on an Antonio Stradivari violin (Paganini/Desaint 1680), generously loaned by the Nippon Foundation in Tokyo.
