Kathleen McIntosh - Harpsichord

Harpsichordist Kathleen McIntosh has traveled widely, performing with such groups as the Chamber Orchestra Kremlin in Moscow, the Vietnam National Symphony in Hanoi and the New American chamber orchestra in Spain.    She has played in the Santa Fe Chamber Festival since 1996 and in the Bravo!Vail Valley Festival since 1999.  She appears frequently with chamber groups, chamber orchestras and as a soloist throughout the western United States.  A resident of Santa Fe, she performs with Serenata de Santa Fe, Santa Fe Pro Musica and many other New Mexico based groups. 

An enthusiastic proponent of contemporary music, she is half of the McFish Duo, which commissions new works for viola and harpsichord.  In 2009, McFish premiered works by Anna Rubin, Glen Roven and Will Averitt at An Die Musik in Baltimore.  Also this year, she returned to the Festival Esteban Salas in Havana as soloist with Las Solistas de La Habana, and she was a featured artist at the Festival de Musica Antigua in Lima.  Her solo recitals this year focused on the music of late 18th century Spain.

  She records for Gasparo and has just completed two recordings for Maricam Studios: one, sonatas of Antonio Soler and the other, selected works of J.S.Bach.

The Los Angeles Reader wrote of her performance of J.S.Bach’s  “Goldberg Variations” that “her nearly flawless technique” and “understated eloquence. . . produced revelatory results.”  Of her recording of the complete keyboard works of Boismortier, Continuo magazine said “A breathtakingly beautiful performance.”  Ms. McIntosh performs on instruments by John Phillips.