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He is a tenor, flautist, choir director, composer,
arranger and teacher born in the area of Liverpool, England. When he was young he began arranging
and composing music for various choirs and orchestras and during the time
he attended college there were performances at the University of London of his
works “Magnificat” and “Shades of Night”. He started
his professional career playing the flute but left that to become a high
school teacher. He taught in
England at first and then moved on to a teaching position in
Singapore. He stayed there for
about five years and travelled to St. Louis, Missouri to take on another
position in 1995. He held the
post of Assistant Director of the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus and Choir
Director at the Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion in University City
and at John Burroughs School.
Never taking a break from writing compositions and arrangements, he
has written at least 70 works that have included folk songs, anthems and
carols with some being commissioned by the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus. His largest work is the choral
piece “The Ruling Moon”, which was premiered in 1997 by the Saint Louis
Chamber Chorus under the leadership of Philip Barnes and his arrangement of
“On a Bus to a Cloud” by Gretchen Peters has a version commissioned by the
Gateway Men’s Chorus. He and
his wife, Iona, who was a soprano with the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus,
returned to the UK to live in Monkton in Kent, England in 2000 when he took
up the position of Director of Music at Kent College, Canterbury.
The Angel
Gabriel (Traditional Basque/Sabine-Baring
Gould)
SLCC 04 (CD: St Louis Chamber Orchestra:
A Spanish Christmas)
Arranger: Edgar
Pettman
Conductor - Philip Barnes
Sources:
- http://www.chamberchorus.org/personnel/smcintosh.html
- http://www.chamberchorus.org/venues/trinityluth.html
- http://www.holycommunion.net/music/2000_2001.htm
- http://www.holycommunion.net/communique/200205_communique.htm
- CD
Liner Notes: A Spanish Christmas
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