Andrew McIntosh
Composer, violinist, and violist Andrew McIntosh is known for being an avid advocate of experimental music, an early music enthusiast, and a specialist of music in just intonation, performing repertoire from throughout the last 800 years. McIntosh is a member of the Formalist Quartet, which is also dedicated to adventurous and relevant repertoire and regularly performs around the states. He holds degrees in violin and composition from the University of Nevada, Reno and the California Institute of the Arts and was awarded First Honorable Mention (2nd prize) in the Gaudeamus International Composition Competition 2011.
As a chamber musician he has played in festivals, concerts, art spaces, and recordings around the US and Europe with the Formalist Quartet, Tholl/McIntosh duo, wild Up, Dante Boon, Quatuor Bozzini (Montreal), Rohan de Saram, inauthentica, Wet Ink Ensemble (New York), Other Minds Festival (San Francisco), Monday Evening Concerts (Los Angeles), Dilijan (Los Angeles), Reykjavik Arts Festival (Iceland), DNK Amsterdam, and others. As a solo artist he has appeared at venues such as Stanford University, REDCAT, Hamburger Klangwerktage (Germany), Schijnheilig (Amsterdam), Pianola Museum (Amsterdam), Unruly Music (Milwaukee), UC San Diego, Pomona College, the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), the Wulf (Los Angeles), and KPFK Pacifica Radio. He also was the viola soloist in 2010 for the US premiere of Gérard Grisey's Les Espaces Acoustiques, for which performance the Los Angeles Times said he "played with commanding beauty”.
As a composer, McIntosh strives to write vibrant and compelling pieces while bringing a spirit of experimentalism to the music, usually through working with just intonation and frequency ratios. He finds that major influences on his creations come from literature, visual art, early music, physics, and the Nevada desert. His compositions have been performed around the US and Europe in venues such as REDCAT in Walt Disney Concert Hall, Gaudeamus Muziekweek (Utrecht, Netherlands), Hamburger Klangwerktage (Germany), Schijnheilig (Amsterdam), the Dartington International Summer Festival (England), Zweilicht (Berlin), Bludenzer Tage Zeitgemässer Musik (Austria), SoundOn Festival (San Diego), Gridlock (Vancouver, BC), Sound in Space Festival (Los Angeles), the Wulf (Los Angeles), and Radio 4 (Netherlands).
A native of rural Northern Nevada, McIntosh lives in Pasadena with his wife and two cats. He enjoys a diverse and frequently unexpected variety of performing, recording, teaching, and composing activities.
http://www.andrewnathanielmcintosh.com
As a chamber musician he has played in festivals, concerts, art spaces, and recordings around the US and Europe with the Formalist Quartet, Tholl/McIntosh duo, wild Up, Dante Boon, Quatuor Bozzini (Montreal), Rohan de Saram, inauthentica, Wet Ink Ensemble (New York), Other Minds Festival (San Francisco), Monday Evening Concerts (Los Angeles), Dilijan (Los Angeles), Reykjavik Arts Festival (Iceland), DNK Amsterdam, and others. As a solo artist he has appeared at venues such as Stanford University, REDCAT, Hamburger Klangwerktage (Germany), Schijnheilig (Amsterdam), Pianola Museum (Amsterdam), Unruly Music (Milwaukee), UC San Diego, Pomona College, the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), the Wulf (Los Angeles), and KPFK Pacifica Radio. He also was the viola soloist in 2010 for the US premiere of Gérard Grisey's Les Espaces Acoustiques, for which performance the Los Angeles Times said he "played with commanding beauty”.
As a composer, McIntosh strives to write vibrant and compelling pieces while bringing a spirit of experimentalism to the music, usually through working with just intonation and frequency ratios. He finds that major influences on his creations come from literature, visual art, early music, physics, and the Nevada desert. His compositions have been performed around the US and Europe in venues such as REDCAT in Walt Disney Concert Hall, Gaudeamus Muziekweek (Utrecht, Netherlands), Hamburger Klangwerktage (Germany), Schijnheilig (Amsterdam), the Dartington International Summer Festival (England), Zweilicht (Berlin), Bludenzer Tage Zeitgemässer Musik (Austria), SoundOn Festival (San Diego), Gridlock (Vancouver, BC), Sound in Space Festival (Los Angeles), the Wulf (Los Angeles), and Radio 4 (Netherlands).
A native of rural Northern Nevada, McIntosh lives in Pasadena with his wife and two cats. He enjoys a diverse and frequently unexpected variety of performing, recording, teaching, and composing activities.
http://www.andrewnathanielmcintosh.com
