AFM Local 571 acknowledges that our office is located on the traditional land of the Mi’kmaq Nation. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship” which Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik peoples first signed with the British Crown in 1725. The treaties did not deal with the surrender of lands and resources but in fact, recognized Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik title and established the rules for what was going to be an ongoing relationship.
Matthias McIntire
Biographical Info Canadian composer, performer, and educator Matthias McIntire has followed a unique path through music-making and his compositions reflect his eclectic background in performance (violin, viola, voice, and electronics), Western classical and new music, as well as jazz, fiddle, free improvisation, field recording, foley art, and electronic music. Matthias creates varied work for acoustic instruments, with and without electronics. His music has found inspiration from a variety of sources including personal expression, reflections on the complexity of the human psyche and emotions, connection and collaboration with others, a love of nature, the act of making and using his own field recordings, birds, the urgency of climate change, a love of all things colourful, the spaces between musical genres he has studied, feelings of mystery and magic in the world, and his time spent traveling, to name a few. Matthias is the recipient of numerous awards and grants: the 2021 Karen Kieser Prize in Canadian Music (University of Toronto); 10+ grants from the Toronto, Ontario, and Canada Councils for the Arts, and others from the University of Toronto, U of T Scarborough, and Ontario Graduate Scholarships; he was selected as 2020-21 Composer Fellow for the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra; he was the 2016 Winner of the Lyra Society (Philadelphia) Costello Composition Competition at the Curtis Institute, to name a few. His compositions have been presented in Canada, the United States, and Europe by performers/venues including the Verona Quartet, self-accompanied soprano/pianist Rachel Fenlon, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, New Music Concerts (Toronto), the Canadian Music Centre (Toronto), Fall for Dance North, TEDx U of T, The University of Toronto, Array Space (Toronto), Harbourfront Centre (Toronto), the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance (Nova Scotia), New Art/New Media (Ottawa), Ottawa Chamberfest, the Center for New Music (San Francisco), One Found Sound (San Francisco), the Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia), the University of Seattle (Washington), New Music for Strings (Iceland), BarokkiKuopio Festival (Finland), among others. Matthias holds a DMA in Composition from the University of Toronto under the supervision of Christos Hatzis and Eliot Britton. He also holds Masters and Bachelors degrees in Violin Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the Glenn Gould School (Toronto), respectively. Matthias’ performance highlights include appearing as guest second violin with the St. Lawrence String Quartet for TEDx Stanford and chamber music appearances alongside other leading musicians including Annalee Patipatanakoon, Christina Quilico, the Miro Quartet, and members of the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, Quebec Symphony, and Vancouver Symphony. He has appeared as section violinist and violist with the National Ballet Orchestra of Canada, Tapestry Opera, and New Music Concerts Toronto. Additionally, from 2013-2017, he was a core member of the SF Bay Area’s Real Vocal String Quartet as violist and vocalist. He has also performed with jazz greats Vijay Iyer, Dave Douglas, and Uri Caine, as well as with Nova Scotia jazz pianist Glenn Patscha. Matthias was Composer-in-Residence at the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance (Lamp) in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia from September 2022 – August 2024. During this residency he composed his String Quartet No. 1 for the Verona Quartet, new songs inspired by Mi’kmaq poet/artist Michelle Sylliboy’s Komqwejwi’kasikl hieroglyphic poetry, a trio for dynamic ensemble F-Plus, Seven Hummingbirds for Duo Holz, and began a new work for pianist Tong Wang. During this time Matthias was also co-director and core faculty for Lamp’s 2023 and 2024 Composition Academies. In September 2024 he began work at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia as Composition Faculty and Director of the Dalhousie New Music Ensemble.
Region Nova Scotia
Instruments Composer, Viola, Violin
Do you teach? yes
What do you teach? Composition, Music Theory, Violin, Viola, Chamber Music, Improvisation, Electronic Music Production, and more
Website http://www.matthiasmcintire.ca
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/matthiascomposerperformer/
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