Matthias McIntire joins Lamp as Composer-in-Residence
The Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance (Lamp) is very proud to announce that in September 2022 Matthias McIntire joined us as our Composer-in-Residence. Matthias first came to Lamp as a participant in the 2018 Composition Academy where he impressed Artistic Director Burt Wathen with his fascinating and innovative music. As one of the most exciting new voices on the Canadian music scene, Matthias has been selected to return for a 10-month residency.
Throughout this residency, Matthias will work alongside leading figures in the industry, including other composers and chamber musicians. Matthias is currently working on a new piece for Lamp's Quartet-in-Residence, the acclaimed Verona Quartet, in honour of the centennial year of Hungarian composer György Ligeti’s birth. The world premiere of this new work will be presented in the Lamp recital hall as part of the NOW Festival of contemporary music in June. Matthias is also working on a composition that juxtaposes Cape Breton fiddle and Brazilian Choro music as a metaphor for his cross-cultural marriage. Having been to Cape Breton this fall to participate in a fiddle workshop, Matthias and his wife Laura will travel to her homeland Brazil in December to visit family and to continue his research. Laura and Matthias now call Lunenburg their home.
"I am very excited to be working closely with the Verona Quartet and pianist Tong Wang on musical projects, as well as with Lamp Artistic Director Burt Wathen and composer Roydon Tse as we reimagine the Composition Academy. Lamp and Lunenburg are both special and I’m really enjoying connecting musically with all the Lamp resident musicians, visiting artists, and the wider community." says Matthias McIntire.
About Matthias
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, and has found inspiration from a variety of sources including personal expression, connection and collaboration with others, a love of nature, the urgency of climate change, making and using his own field recordings, 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.
His compositions have been presented by ensembles/venues including New Music Concerts (Toronto), the Canadian Music Centre (Toronto), Fall for Dance North, TEDx U of T, the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, New Art/New Media (Ottawa), Ottawa Chamberfest, the Center for New Music (San Francisco), the Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia), the University of Seattle (Washington), New Music for Strings (Iceland), among others.
Grants and awards include: the 2021 Karen Kieser Prize in Canadian Music (University of Toronto); grants from the Toronto, Ontario, and Canada Councils for the Arts, as well as the University of Toronto, U of T Scarborough, and Ontario Graduate Scholarships; the 2020-21 Hamilton Philharmonic Composer Fellowship; first prize in the 2016 Lyra Society (Philadelphia) Costello Composition Competition – to name a few.
Matthias holds a DMA in Composition from the University of Toronto, as well as Masters and Bachelors degrees in Violin Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the Glenn Gould School, respectively.