New visual album coming soon!

sing nature alive from my insides

A music film showcasing the entire 40 minute song cycle for self-accompanied soprano, piano, & live electronics. Poetry, music, visual imagery, and storytelling come together to express our love of nature as well as the tragedy and inevitability of climate change.

COMPOSER: Matthias McIntire

POETRY: Rachel Fenlon & Matthias McIntire

PERFORMER: Rachel Fenlon

DIRECTOR: Jamie AM

World Premiere at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto July 28, 2024

Seven Hummingbirds for violin and percussion, a new work for Duo Holz commissioned by the Harbourfront Centre, will premiere at 4 pm on July 28, 2024 at the Summer Music in the Garden series.

The piece is a series of seven miniatures, each one dedicated to a different species of hummingbird that I observed and interacted with in the Cloud Forest of Mindo, Ecuador in January 2024. The music was composed to video edits for each hummingbird that I shot up close on my smart phone.

https://harbourfrontcentre.com/event/from-canada-to-cuphead/

String Quartet No. 1 premiered June 21, 2023

My first ever string quartet, commissioned by the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance (Lamp) for the acclaimed Verona Quartet received its premiere on June 21, 2023. This piece was composed in honour of the centennial year of Hungarian composer György Ligeti’s birth.

String Quartet No. 1

for string quartet, drum machine, and electronics

I. Introduction - Faster, semplice

II. Dance Music: trance-like, sempre energico

III. Molto tranquillo, ma misterioso

Matthias McIntire continues as Lamp Composer-in-Residence

I am very excited to continue my position as the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance (Lamp) Composer-in-Residence into Fall 2024. During my residency I have so far composed my first string quartet for the Verona Quartet, new songs set to poetry by Mi’kmaq poet Michelle Sylliboy, worked to finalize the visual album of my song cycle for soprano/pianist Rachel Fenlon, as well as a new live version with projections by Jamie AM. I am currently composing my trio for F-Plus, my AI Nocturne for pianist Tong Wang, and recently completed a new violin/percussion piece for Duo Holz commissioned by the Harbourfront Centre (Toronto). This summer I am returning as co-organizer and faculty for Lamp’s 2024 Composition Academy.

Manitoba Chamber Orchestra presents Bluegreen Ecstatic Grey

I am very excited that the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra presented my DMA thesis composition Bluegreen Ecstatic Grey on April 10, 2024. It was a great experience working with these fantastic musicians and conductor Jeri Lynne Johnson.

For 16 musicians, including electronics, this piece is a musical metaphor for the process of uncovering, feeling, and healing latent grief. In part two, the work is revealed to be a secret piano concerto — the pianist embarks on an extended soliloquy as all pretense is stripped away to allow grief and anger to be felt in their full weight.

Click here for MCO website and concert info
Jeri Lynne Johnson, conductor
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, piano