Andrew McIntosh is a Grammy-nominated violinist, violist, Baroque violinist, and composer who teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. As a Baroque performer McIntosh is a member of Tesserae and Bach Collegium San Diego, has served as guest concertmaster for baroque operas with Los Angeles Opera and Opera UCLA, and recently served as both music director and concertmaster of Long Beach Opera’s all-Handel pastiche production “The Feast”—a collaboration with Martha Graham Dance Company. 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.

About a recent performance of the complete Rosary Sonatas of Heinrich Biber at the 92nd Street Y, the New York Times said “his playing had exceptional clarity and rhetorical verve.” As a chamber musician he is a member of Wild Up, the Formalist Quartet, and Wadada Leo Smith’s Red Koral Quartet. 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.” Recent commissions include works for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Calder Quartet, Yarn/Wire, Miller Theatre at Columbia University, and violinist Ilya Gringolts.