Diana McIntosh

Who is Diana McIntosh?

Diana McIntosh is a contemporary Canadian composer and pianist who is currently based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. 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, Norma Beecroft, Robert Daigneault, Alexina Louie, Marjan Mozetich, Boyd McDonald, Jean Papineau-Couture, Ann Southam, Robert Turner, and John Winiarz. In 1977 she and Southam co-founded Music Inter Alia, a concert series of "contemporary music for people who don't like contemporary music". She served as the MIA'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. Her other teachers included Gladys Egbert, Leonard Isaacs, and Michael Colgrass.