Education
The Royal Conservatory of Music.
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Diana McIntosh
Edit Profilecomposer pianist university professor
Career
In 1977 she and Southam co-founded Music Inter Alia (Master of International Affairs), a concert series of "contemporary music for people who don"t like contemporary music". She served as the Master of International Affairs"s director until 1991. McIntosh earned an associates degree from The Royal Conservatory of Music in 1957 and a Licentiate in Music in 1961.
While there she was a pupil of Boris Roubakine.
In 1972 she received a Bachelor of Music from the University of Manitoba where she was a pupil of Alma Brock-Smith and Robert Turner. She also studied with Adele Marcus at the Aspen Music Festival and School and privately in New York City.
Achievements
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Hailed by the Canadian Encyclopedia as "a champion of 20th-century Canadian music", she has premiered piano works by such Canadian composers as Peter Allen (Logos, 1977), Norma Beecroft (Cantorum Vitae, 1981), Robert Daigneault (Corridors, Reminiscences, 1977), Alexina Louie (Pearls, 1980), Marjan Mozetich (Apparition 1985), Boyd McDonald (Fantasy, 1974), Jean Papineau-Couture (Les Arabesques d"Isabelle, 1990), Ann Southam (Four Bagatelles, 1964 & Integruities, 1973 & Inter-views, 1975), Robert Turner (Homage to Melville, 1974), and John Winiarz (Vortices, 1977).
