Canadian Brian McIntosh has earned international acclaim with his full bass-baritone voice. He is a regular performer with North America’s leading opera companies and orchestras as well as with opera-houses and festivals across Europe. His 2006-2007 season included Bartolo in Barbiere di Siviglia with Schlossfestspiele Zwingenberg, Bartolo in Nozze di Figaro with New Orleans Opera, Alidoro in La Cenerentola with Calgary Opera, Peneios in Daphne with Pacific Opera Victoria and Lodovico in Otello with Opera Lyra Ottawa and Manitoba Opera. The 2005-2006 season included Capriccio and Madama Butterfly with New York City Opera, Commendatore in Don Giovanni with Vancouver Opera, Monterone in Rigoletto with Orchestra London and Pistola in Falstaff with Opera Lyra Ottawa. In the 2004-2005 season McIntosh performed in La Rondine and Pearl Fishers with New York City Opera, Glagolitic Mass with Singapore Symphony, and La Traviata with Princeton Symphony. The 2003-2004 season included Kaspar in Der Freischütz with Schlossfestspiele Zwingenberg in Germany, Bartolo in Barber of Seville with Vancouver Opera and Bonze in Madama Butterfly with Edmonton Opera. Recently, Mr. McIntosh has performed with NYCO in Madama Butterfly, Don Giovanni, Rigoletto, La Boheme (including a live broadcast of La Boheme on PBS),
Carmen and La Traviata. He also sang with Arizona Opera and Pittsburgh Opera in Salome and Grand Rapids Opera as Sparafucile in Rigoletto, and made his debut with the Seattle Symphony.

Mr. McIntosh has had great success in the roles of Falstaff in the Merry Wives of Windsor with Schlossfestspiele Zwingenberg, Banquo in Macbeth and Bartolo in Marriage of Figaro with Pacific Opera Victoria, Kaspar in Der Freischütz in Zwingenberg, Don Alfonso in Cosi Fan Tutte with the Canadian Opera Company, the King of Egypt in Aida with International Opera Festival (Skydome), Bailli in Werther with Vancouver Opera, Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola with Opera Lyra Ottawa, and the title role in The Mikado with Calgary Opera. He also performed Titurel in Parsifal with Landestheater Detmold, Germany, Sam in Un Ballo in Maschera with Edmonton Opera, Plutone in Orfeo with Helsinki Festival, Antinoo in Il Ritorno d’Ulisse with Bad Hersfeld Festival, Germany, and Krushina in Bartered Bride with Kiel Opera and Essen Stadt Theater.

Mr. McIntosh has been featured in Meistersinger, La Traviata, Lulu, Salome and Elektra with the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, as Bonze in Madama Butterfly with Vancouver Opera, Königskinder, Zar und Zimmerman and The Jacobin with the Schlossfestspiele Zwingenberg, as Bailli in Werther and Capulet in Romeo et Juliette with Calgary Opera, Truelove in Rake’s Progress with Edmonton Opera, Nourabad in Pearl Fishers, and Frank in Fledermaus with Opera Lyra Ottawa, as Angelotti in Tosca, Monterone in Rigoletto, Sam in Un Ballo in Maschera and Bonze in Butterfly with Pacific Opera Victoria. He has also made a name for himself performing in new works, including the world premieres of Serinette by Harry Somers for Music at Sharon, Florence by Tim Sullivan at Elora Festival and Game Misconduct by Leslie Uyeda at Festival Vancouver. Concert engagements include Haydn’s Harmoniemesse and Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with Riverside Choral Society in New York City, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall, Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass with Seattle Symphony, Brahms’ Four Serious Songs with Rutgers Orchestra, and a recital with the Aeolian Winds, Canada’s premiere wind quintet. He has also performed excerpts from Tosca with Placido Domingo, Fidelio with Toronto Symphony, Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass with Vancouver Symphony, Mozart's Requiem in Stuttgart, Haydn’s Nelson Mass in Salzburg, Bach’s St. Matthew’s Passion with Deutsche Bach Solisten, La Boheme and La Traviata with Orchestra London, Verdi Requiem and Pearl Fishers with London Fanshawe Symphonic Chorus, Bach's St. John’s Passion with Kingston Symphony, and Mozart's Requiem with the Hamilton Philharmonic.

Upcoming engagements include Banquo in MacBeth with Opera Montreal, Haly in Italiana in Algeri with Vancouver Opera, Luther and Crespel (and cover Villains) in Tales of Hoffmann with Virginia Opera, and Sacristan in Tosca with Calgary Opera.

SEASON 2007-2008

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2005/2006 - Conducted voice Master classes for students at University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, and for the young artists of Opera Lyra Ottawa.

1999 - 2005
RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY, NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY
Achieved rank of Associate Professor, and was granted tenure.

December 2003
HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK, KÖLN, GERMANY
Guest Professor of Voice

1991 to 1999
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO, LONDON, CANADA
Assistant Professor (Adjunct)
Director of Opera Workshop (1994-1996)

1982-84
UNIVERSITY OF BIELEFELD, GERMANY
Lecturer (Adjunct)


Operas Produced and Directed

Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette, Feb. 2004, Rutgers University
Britten’s Beggar’s Opera, Mar. 1996, University of Western Ontario (UWO)
Mozart’s Schauspieldirektor, Mar. 1994, UWO
Opera excerpts, 2002 and 2003, Rutgers University
Opera excerpts, Fall 1994 and Spring 1995, UWO

Teaching AWARDS

In 1997, Brian McIntosh became the first professor at the UWO Faculty of Music to receive the Pedro Goldman Award. (The Faculty of Music Student’s Council created the award to honor a favourite teacher: their Physics of Sound teacher, Prof. Pedro Goldman. Since the first year, when Prof. Goldman himself received the award, it has been given to the person who has had the most positive impact on the lives of the students of the Faculty of Music.)

Brian McIntosh was placed on the UWO University Students’ Council ‘Teaching Honor Roll’ 1996-97.

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