Composer, violinist, and violist Andrew McIntosh focuses primarily on performing and expanding the repertoire of compelling and experimental music, as well as enjoying music from throughout the last 800 years and performing on baroque and renaissance period instruments. His compositions are regularly performed around the US and Europe, and he was recently awarded an honorable mention (2nd prize) in the Gaudeamus International Composers Competition in the Netherlands. As a chamber musician he has played in festivals, concerts, art spaces, and recordings around the U.S. and Europe with the Formalist Quartet, Tholl/McIntosh duo, Quatuor Bozzini (Montreal), Wet Ink Ensemble (New York), Musica Angelica, Rohan de Saram, Scott Pauley, and Marc Sabat, among others. As a baroque violinist he has focused recently on the 16 Rosary Sonatas by Biber, all in different tunings, performing the complete cycle in Los Angeles with invitations for repeat performances in Switzerland and Berlin. He has been a guest artist at baroque and contemporary festivals from California to Iceland and has recorded for Mode, Innova, New World Records, Populist Records, Yale University Press, and Cold Blue record labels. As a solo artist he has appeared at venues such as Stanford University, REDCAT, Hamburger Klangwerktage (Hamburg), 7 Hours (Berlin), the Pianola Museum (Amsterdam), the Hammer Museum, and KPFK Pacifica Radio to name a few. He holds degrees in violin, composition, and early music performance from the University of Nevada, Reno, the California Institute of the Arts, and the University of Southern California. As viola soloist in the U.S. premiere of Gérard Grisey’s Les Espaces Acoustiques, the Los Angeles Times wrote that he “played with commanding beauty.”