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The Australian pianist and music pedagogue, Stephen McIntyre, followed early studies in Melbourne with time in France and Italy. His teachers included Ada Freeman, Nadia Boulanger, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and Guido Agosti.
From 1963 to 1975 Stephen McIntyre was based in Europe. He is known nationally and internationally as one of Australia's most eminent pianists and teachers. He is the chosen accompanist of many singers and instrumentalists, a sought-after concerto artist and chamber music player. He has performed in France, UK, Italy, Germany, Holland and also in Japan, Singapore and India. Within Australia, he has performed as concerto soloist with all the major ABC orchestras, appeared as associate artist with violinists Valery Klimov, Viktoria Mullova, and Nelli Shkolnikova, and toured nationally with violist Wolfram Christ and renowned cellist Anner Bylsma.
Stephen McIntyre returned to Australia to take up a foundation teaching post as Head of Piano at the Victorian College of the Arts from 1977 until 1992/1993. He has appeared as concerto soloist with all major Australian orchestras. He made a major impact on the Australian concert scene with his cycle of the complete piano music of Ravel, for which he won the National Critics Award. He was invited to repeat the cycle in Paris.
Stephen McIntyre was Principal Artistic Advisor for Musica Viva Australia during 1995-1996, Director of the Chamber Music Program for the Melbourne International Festival from 1989 to 1999 and Artistic Director of the Port Fairy Spring Music Festival from 2005 to 2009. He is Associate Professor in the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music at the University of Melbourne from 1974. In 2003, he was the recipient of the Sir Bernard Heinze Award for distinguished contribution to music and in 2007 he was made a member of the Order of Australia (AM). |
