Past Activities
Some
Significant
Artistic Activities
Winnipeg, with percussionist, Beverley Johnston.
Apr. 2003 Gave a concert of some of her music, along with Mary Gardiner, at the
Heliconian Club, Toronto.
Mar. 2003 Gave 2 concert/lectures at the University of Nevada, Reno, Music Faculty.
Feb. 2003 Gave an illustrated talk for the Women With Vision series, in Winnipeg.
It was an over-view of her eclectic creative career as a composer/performer,
in which she performed excerpts of several of her works.
Jan. 2003 Premiere of "Four on the Floor", for 4 pianos, brass and percussion, in
the WSO New Music Festival. The work was commissioned by the WSO.
Oct. 2002 3 performances of her one-woman theatrical musical work, "Beryl Markham -
Flying West with the Night", in Nairobi, Kenya, Africa, at the initial
invitation of the Aero Club of East Africa, as well as for the Karen and
Muthaiga Clubs, Nairobi.
May 2002 Premiere performance of "She Had Some Horses", for cello, percussion, tape,
and spoken text, with text by American Native poet, Joy Harjo, at a
GroundSwell concert curated by McIntosh, at the Copall Equestrian Centre,
Winnipeg.
Apr. 2002 Performance of "Through the Valley: Milgaard" with the Saskatoon Symphony
Orchestra, with composer as guest soloist/narrator.
Apr. 2002 Performance of "Through the Valley: Milgaard" with the Regina Symphony
Orchestra, with composer as guest soloist/narrator.
Mar. 2002 Concert of her music for The Music Gallery, Toronto, including eastern
Canadian premiere of "Wenkchemna".
Feb. 2002 Concert of her music sponsored by the University of Manitoba School
of Music in the Winnipeg Art Gallery, recorded by the CBC for broadcast.
Jan. 2002 Gave a talk and a Creative Music Workshop for students of Murchison Middle
School in Austin, Texas.
Jan. 2002 Gave 2 performances of a concert of her music for Voices of Change, at The
McKinney Avenue Contemporary theatre in Dallas, Texas.
Mar. 2001 Performed "Slipping the Bonds - From Birds to Bondar" on tour to Lakehead
University, Thunder Bay; The Music Gallery, Toronto; The National Aviation
Museum, Ottawa.
Jan. 2001 As guest pianist/narrator, performed premiere of "Through the Valley:
Milgaard" with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in its Centara New Music
Festival. The work was commissioned by the WSO.
Jun/Jul/00 Performed 6 of her one-woman theatrical musical pieces in four-concert tour
of Scotland, Ireland and England. The program was titled "In, On and Around
the Piano", and the works were - "All in Good Time", "Eliptosonics", "The
Mountain Gods", "Glorified Chicken Mousse", "Go Between" and "Doubletalk".
Apr. 2000 Curated the first ever public concert in the Royal Canadian Mint, in
Winnipeg, for GroundSwell, and performed in 5 of the works on the program
which she titled "Music In Mint Condition". Works in which she performed
were by Michael Colgrass, Omar Daniel, Kurt Weill, Greg Lowe and in her own
composition, "Luminaries", for flute and piano.
May 1999 Performed her one-woman multimedia show "Slipping the Bonds - From Birds
to Bondar" in the Pacific Space Centre, Vancouver, BC., for the Association
of Canadian Women Composers concert series.
Apr. 1999 Premiered in 3 performances at the Manitoba Planetarium Theatre, her one-
woman multimedia show "Slipping the Bonds - From Birds to Bondar".
Feb. 1999 New York New Music Ensemble premiered in Merkin Hall, NYC, "Time and Again",
the trio for flute, clarinet and piano that they commissioned from McIntosh.
Feb. 1999 Performed "McIntosh the Stein Way" at The Knitting Factory, New York, N.Y.
Nov. 1998 "Performed Beryl Markham - Flying West With the Night" at John Knox audi-
torium, Pompano Beach, Florida.
Jun/Jul/98 Performed her work "Beryl Markham - Flying West With the Night" on a
3-concert tour of England and Scotland.
Aug. 1998 Performed full-length concert of 5 of her own works at the Hornby Festival,
on Hornby Island, BC
Mar. 1998 "Margins of Reality" was played by the Composers' Orchestra, Toronto.
Oct. 1997 4-week tour of the Maritimes and Ontario, including Thunder Bay, Toronto
and Ottawa giving 13 solo performances, featuring "Beryl Markham - Flying
West With the Night", and 6 other works.
Sept.1997 Performed "Beryl Markham - Flying West With the Night", at The Knitting
Factory, New York City.
June 1997 Performed her "Markham" show at the Pynelogs Cultural Centre, Invermere, B.C.
May 1997 Performed "Go Between" in The Arts and Letters Club, Toronto
Mar. 1997 Performed "Beryl Markham - Flying West With the Night", at The National
Aviation Museum, Ottawa.
Jan. 1997 Performed "Doubletalk", at du Maurier Arts Ltd. Winnipeg Symphony New Music
Festival.
Oct. 1996 Performed one-woman music theatre work, "Beryl Markham - Flying West with
the Night", at The Music Gallery, Toronto.
Jan. 1996 Premiered "9 Foot Clearance" (McIntosh was piano soloist) with the Winnipeg
Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Bramwell Tovey in the du Maurier Ltd. New
Music Festival. This work was commissioned from McIntosh by the WSO for
this festival.
Feb. 1995 Solo concert of own compositions at The Music Gallery, Toronto.
Jan. 1995 Performed "...and 8:30 in Newfoundland", at du Maurier Arts Ltd. Winnipeg
Symphony Orchestra New Music Festival.
Oct. 1994 Solo concerts, U. of B.C., and 2 in Seattle, Washington.
Jan. 1993 Performed improvised music for "Dream Rite" dance performances, choreographed
by Rachel Browne, in Women in View Festival, Vancouver.
Oct. 1992 Performed solo work and was a panellist at Glen Gould Conference, Toronto.
Mar. 1992 Performed "Dream Rite" in the INDE Dance Festival, Toronto; her music
created on commission, for choreographer Rachel Browne.
Feb. 1992 Performed "Solitary Climb", a one-woman multimedia show, in Ottawa, as part
of Espace Musique's new music series, and also in a Toronto New Music series
concert.
Feb. 1992 Performed "Nanuk" with Rivka Golani, (who commissioned the work), on a
GroundSwell concert series, Winnipeg.
Jan. 1992 "Margins of Reality" was performed by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra as
part of its first New Music Festival.
Feb. 1991 Queen's University Women's Scholar, solo concert, panellist, and creative
workshop, Kingston, Ontario.
1990 Awarded a Major Arts Grant by the Manitoba arts Council to create a multi-
media one-woman musical work, "Solitary Climb", which she performed many
times. The work relates new music performance to mountain climbing, both of
which McIntosh does.
Fall 1989 Made professional video "Serious Fun With McIntosh". Distributed by Winnipeg
Film Group. Broadcast on CBC TV.
1985 Awarded a Major Arts Grant from the Manitoba Arts Council enabling her to
live in New York for a period of 7 months to immerse herself in the New
Music scene there, and to write new works.
Oct. 1985 "Kiviuq-an Inuit Legend", a CBC commission, was premiered by the Manitoba
Chamber Orchestra and broadcast on CBC radio, national network.
Apr. 1982 Named YWCA Woman of the Year, in the Arts.
Apr. 1977 Together with Canadian composer Ann Southam, she presented the first Music
Inter Alia (music among other things - i.e. multimedia) concert at the
Winnipeg Art Gallery. It was so successful that Diana decided to begin an
annual series. She and Ann inaugurated it in October of that year and Diana
continued it for 14 years as its President and Artistic Director. (Ann left
MIA after several years to pursue other interests.) In 1990 Diana joined with
2 smaller new music groups in Winnipeg to form GroundSwell, which continues
to be the foremost new music group in Winnipeg, and she is one of its
Co-Artistic Directors.
Oct. 1973 Began teaching a weekly Continuing Education course for the University of
Manitoba, on the music of various composers, most of which were on Canadian
composers. This she did for 7 years.
1972 Received a Bachelor of Music - Performance, from the School of Music, University
of Manitoba.
Oct. 1961 Awarded Licentiate in Music, by the University of Manitoba.
1961 Gave weekly live-to-air piano recitals on CKSB radio, St. Boniface.
Over the years she has been granted numerous residencies at the Leighton Artist Colony,
at the Banff Centre, where she devoted herself to writing new works, and
giving some performances.
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