Violinist, violist, and composer Andrew McIntosh focuses primarily on performing and expanding the repertoire of compelling and experimental music. However, he enjoys music from throughout the last 800 years and can sometimes be found playing baroque and renaissance music on period instruments as well. McIntosh is a member of the Formalist Quartet, which is also dedicated to adventurous and relevant repertoire and regularly performs around the country. He holds degrees in violin and composition from the University of Nevada, Reno and the California Institute of the Arts.

As a chamber musician he has played in festivals, concerts, art spaces, and recordings around the US and Europe with the Formalist Quartet, Tholl/McIntosh duo, Quatuor Bozzini (Montreal), Wet Ink Ensemble (New York), Rohan de Saram, inauthentica, and many others. He has been a guest artist at the Other Minds Festival (San Francisco), Reykjavik Arts Festival (Iceland), Dartington Music Festival (England), Dilijan Concerts (Los Angeles), and the Mammoth Lakes Music Festival (California).

As a solo artist he has appeared at venues such as Stanford University, REDCAT (in Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles), the Wulf (Los Angeles), Hamburger Klangwerktage (in Kampnagel, Hamburg), 7 Hours (Berlin), the Pianola Museum (Amsterdam), Schijnheilig (Amsterdam), the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), and KPFK Pacifica Radio, as well as with the New Century Players, Santa Cecilia Orchestra, USC Thornton Early Music Ensemble, Reno Philharmonic, and inauthentica. He also recently was the viola soloist in the US premiere of Gérard Grisey’s Les Espaces Acoustiques, for which performance the LA Times said he “played with commanding beauty”.

As a composer, McIntosh strives to write vibrant and compelling pieces while bringing a spirit of experimentalism to the music, usually through working with just intonation and frequency ratios. He was recently nominated as a finalist for the 2011 Gaudeamus International Composition Competition, which will take place later this year in Utrecht, the Netherlands. A native of rural Northern Nevada, McIntosh is currently based in the Los Angeles area where he teaches violin at Pomona College and enjoys a large and frequently unexpected variety of performing, recording, teaching, and composing activities.