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
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printable version. 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 December
2003 1991 to
1999 1982-84
Gounod’s
Romeo et Juliette, Feb. 2004, Rutgers University 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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