Eric L. McIntyre’s compositions explore a broad palette of sounds and senses, ranging from the intensely profound to the utterly ridiculous. The Houston Chronicle described McIntyre’s serious music as containing “striking sounds” with “straight-forward craft,” while the Syracuse Post-Standard said of his jocular side, “If you like Monty Python, you will love this.” His music has been performed across the US and in Europe, South America, South Africa, and Korea by an array of ensembles and soloists. He has received awards and honors from ASCAP, the Society of Composers, Inc, the International Horn Society, the American Music Center, Iowa Arts Council, and the Iowa Composers Forum, and his work has been featured at national and international festivals of the World Saxophone Congress, Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the US, Society of Composers, Inc, College Music Society, and Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society. His work has been performed by leading artists, including musicians from the Houston Symphony, Utah Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Houston Ballet, Houston Grand Opera, Colorado Symphony, and the Concertgebouw Orchestra. In the summer of 2005, Mr. McIntyre was selected as an artist-in-residence at Isle Royale National Park and participated in a three-week residency on the island while he began work for his flute/cello concerto, Of Minong.
McIntyre’s work explores a wide variety of genres from traditional orchestral music, chamber music, and art song to jazz, electronic music, musical theater, and the avant-garde. His most recent work has included experiments with structured improvisation, theatrical presentation, and altered instruments. For a complete list of his compositions, click here. Select audio samples of his work are available here.
Recent premieres of McIntyre’s music have been given by the Aberdeen Civic University Symphony, Minnesota Sinfonia, Mason City High School Symphonic Band, Fort Dodge Area Symphony, the trumpet/organ duo of Nathaniel Mayfield and Vincent de Vries, tubist Mark Barton, and the AURA Contemporary Ensemble. He is currently working on a commission for the St. Cecilia Chamber Music Society of Houston for Houston Ballet/Houston Grand Opera principal cellist Barrett Sills.
He holds a DMA in composition from the University of Houston Moores School of Music, where he studied with Robert Nelson and David Ashley White and participated in the Musical Theater Collaboration Workshop with Stuart Ostrow. He also studied composition at Indiana University with Don Freund. He previously directed the composition studio at the Hurley School of Music at Centenary College of Louisiana, and he currently teaches composition courses and Mentored Advanced Projects in composition at Grinnell College.
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