Diana McIntosh

Diana McIntosh ( born March 4, 1937 in Calgary, Alberta; nee Lowes ) is a Canadian pianist, composer and performance artist.

Life

McIntosh was a student of Gladys Egbert in her hometown of Boris Roubakine at the Royal Conservatory of Music, Adele Marcus in the Summer Music School in Aspen / Colorado, Alma Brock -Smith and Leonard Isaacs in Winnipeg and Michael Colgrass in Toronto. Until 1972 she studied at the School of Music at the University of Manitoba, where Robert Turner was one of their teachers. Subsequently, they were there for seven years courses on the music of Canadian composers who introduced her as a piano soloist or in chamber ensembles and with the inclusion of visual media, dance and theater.

In addition, she performed piano soloist with the CBC Winnipeg Orchestra and has given concerts on radio and television, the CBC. She played the world premiere of works by Peter Allen, Norma Beecroft, Robert Daigneault, Alexina Louie, Marjan Mozetich, Boyd McDonald, Jean Papineau - Couture, Ann Southam, Robert Turner and John Winiarz. In 1977 she founded Music Inter Alia, a series of events that the performance of contemporary, especially Canadian music devoted himself. In the 14 years of its existence nearly 300 works have been performed in the series, including 42 commissioned works of Canadian musicians. Many performances of the series were broadcast by the CBC; since 1981, the event was associated with a competition for young composers. Since 1992, the series will take place under the name Groundswell. McIntosh worked here as one of the artistic director, and finally as President.

In the early 1980s she received from Chris Hurley of The Manitoba Puppet Theatre commissioned to compose music for the puppet Kiviuq after the eponymous Inuit legend. 1985 arose from this for the CBC Radio 's work Kiviuq - An Inuit Legend. 1986 McIntosh was Composer in Residence at the Festival of the Sound in Parry Sound, Ontario.

Regularly occurs McIntosh at Winnipeg New Music Festival on. Here her solo program Solitary Climb 1990 listed, in which they used in addition to the piano also objects of mountaineering equipment as a musical instrument. Another solo work was Beryl Markham: West with the Night Flying, which was premiered in 1995. In 2001, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra Through The Valley: Milgaard for piano, narrator and orchestra. The work commissioned by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra 9 Foot clearance for piano and orchestra participated in the Canadian Concerto Competition of the Orchestre symphonique de Québec 2002 part.

McIntosh gave concerts in Canada, the USA, Great Britain, France, Portugal and other European countries and in 2002 took a three-week tour of Kenya. She has received commissions from Rivka Golani, Patricia Spenser, Beverley Johnston and Victor Schultz and worked several times with the choreographer Rachel Browne together.

Works

  • Eliptosonics for speaker, piano, tape and Dias, 1979
  • Luminaries for Piano and Flute, 1979
  • Sonographer for recorder, oboe and bassoon, 1980
  • Extensions for piano and tape, 1981
  • Gulliver for piano and recorder, 1981
  • Tea For Two At Whipsnade Zoo for recorder and tape, 1982
  • Gradatim Ad Summum for piano four-hands, 1982
  • A Different Point of View for tape and slide projections, 1982
  • Kiviuq ( for Puppet Theatre ) for tape, 1982
  • Double Talk for voice and tape, 1983
  • Aiby Aicy Aidyai kids piano, 1983
  • Sound Assem bling for piano and tape, 1983
  • Glorified Chicken Mousse for piano, speaker and tape, 1984
  • Go Between for three pianos and tape, 1984
  • Four or Five For Four or Five for recorder, oboe, bassoon, harpsichord and percussion, 1984
  • Two New Minutes for piano, 1984
  • To A New Year for voice, percussion and tape, 1985
  • Two Pianola With Vistlen, Shtompen and flaps for two children Pianos 1985
  • Kiviuq - An Inuit Legend for eleven instruments and narrator, 1985
  • 8:30 In Newfoundland ... and for speakers and percussion, 1986
  • Channels for piano, 1986
  • Tay Ploop for piano, percussion and tape, 1986
  • Gut Reaction for viola and tape, 1986
  • Dual Control for Two Pianos, 1986
  • Tongues Of Angels for piano, soprano and percussion, 1986
  • Solitary Climb for piano, speakers, tape and video projection, 1986
  • User Friendly for soprano and bass, 1987
  • Playback for piano, violin and clarinet, 1987
  • All In Good Time for piano and tape, 1988
  • Shadowed Voices for piano, speaker and percussion, 1988
  • Worlds Apart for piano, 1988
  • Through Ancient Caverns for piano four- hands, 1988
  • Rôles Renversés for piano and soprano, 1988
  • Margins of Reality for string orchestra, 1989
  • Time Out for clarinet, 1990
  • Dance for Daedalus for piano and alto saxophone, 1990
  • Climb to Camp One for Piano, 1990
  • Points of View for piano, 1990
  • Sampling the Communication Parameters in the Ambience of Structural Phrasing and Dynamics in Contemporary Music for piano and speaker, 1991
  • The Arm of Dionysus for violin and tape, 1991
  • Imprints for Piano, Oboe and mezzo- soprano, 1991
  • Nanuk for Piano and Viola, 1991
  • Patterns And digressions for Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Horn and Bassoon, 1991
  • Braille For The Wind's hand for soprano, mezzo- soprano, baritone and tape, 1992
  • McIntosh The Stein Way for piano, drums, speakers and tape, 1992
  • Dream Rite for tape, voice and percussion, 1992
  • Murkings for piano, percussion and voice, 1993
  • Processions for piano, 1993
  • In A Sense for piano, percussion and speaker, 1994
  • Beryl Markham Flying West With the Night for Piano, speakers and tape, 1995
  • Courting the Muse for two pianos and spoken by the pianist text, 1995
  • Nine -foot clearance for Piano and Orchestra, 1995
  • The Mountain Gods for piano, speaker and tape, 1996
  • Patterns for speaker and tape, 1996
  • Slipping The Bonds - From Birds to Bondar for piano, speaker, percussion and tape, 1999
  • Time And Again for Piano, Flute and Clarinet, 1999
  • Through The Valley: Milgaard for piano, tape and narrator, 2001
  • Wenkchemna for flute, violin, horn, cello and two narrators, 2001
  • Four On The Floor for four pianos, trombone, trumpet, horn and two percussionists, 2002
  • She Had Some Horses for cello, percussion, tape and narrator, 2002
  • The Wiwaxy Ledges for piano, speaker and tape, 2002
  • From Wapta Ice for piano, tape and speaker, 2003
  • Moments ago for Piano and Violin, 2003
  • Uhuru Kamili for piano and percussion, 2003
  • Psalm 46 for choir and organ, 2003
  • That Damned Elusive Muse of mine for piano, percussion, electronic sounds and speaker, 2004
  • From A Dark Journey for Piano, 2004
  • Summit ridge for piano and tape, 2005
  • Approaching Kilimanjaro for drums, piano and string quartet, 2005
  • Bow Them Away for Flute Choir, 2005
  • In the beginning, mountains for choir, solo soprano and solo clarinet, 2005
  • Fancy Free (or Penses enfantine ) for cello, percussion and speaker, 2006
  • All Too Consuming for percussion, tape and speaker, 2006
  • Elephant Walk for drums and speaker, 2006
  • A I Prelude and Fugue, for piano, 2007
  • A rose is a rose ... for piano and live electronics, 2007
  • Porini, Porini! for bassoon, 2007
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