Constantin Trinks, born on 9 April 1975 in Karlsruhe, Germany, is a German conductor. He studied piano at the Karlsruhe University of Music with Günter Reinhold and conducting with Wolf‑Dieter Hauschild, working as a répétiteur and assistant to Kazushi Ōno while still a student. In 2000, he became permanent répétiteur and Kapellmeister at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, later serving as second Kapellmeister and interim General Music Director at the Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken until 2009. From 2009 to 2012, he was General Music Director at the Staatstheater Darmstadt before becoming a freelance conductor in 2012. With the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, he received the 2023 Opus Klassik award for the world‑premiere recording of Wilhelm Petersen’s 3. Sinfonie cis‑moll; the recording was praised in a 2023 BR Klassik broadcast. Trinks is noted for his Wagner and Strauss repertoire and for championing late‑romantic works such as Petersen’s Violinkonzert d‑moll, premiered in 2025.
