Andrew McIntosh

Andrew McIntosh is a GRAMMY-nominated violinist, violist, composer, and baroque violinist who teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. As a solo artist he has performed at the San Francisco Symphony’s SoundBox series, Miller Theatre in New York, REDCAT, and festivals and concert series across Europe and the US. As a chamber musician he is a member of Wild Up, the Formalist Quartet, and Wadada Leo Smith’s Red Koral Quartet. As a baroque performer McIntosh is a member of Tesserae and Bach Collegium San Diego, has served as guest concertmaster for baroque operas with LA Opera and Opera UCLA, and was recently both music director and concertmaster of Long Beach Opera’s all-Handel pastiche production “The Feast”. His recording of the sonatas for violin and fortepiano of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges with Steven Vanhauwaert was released in November 2023 on Olde Focus Records. As a composer he was described by Alex Ross in the New Yorker as “a composer preternaturally attuned to the landscapes and soundscapes of the West”, and recent commissions include works for the LA Philharmonic, Calder Quartet, Yarn/Wire, and Ilya Gringolts.