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The American pianist, harpsichordist, musicologist and music teacher, Ray McIntyre, obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree (1948) and his Master of Arts and Bachelor of Liberal Studies degrees (1950) from the University of California at Berkeley. He later studied at Harvard University (1957-1958); and at Brandeis University (1958-1960).
Ray McIntyre made his debut at Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City in 1968. He served as Music Librarian at Detroit Public Library (1950-1954); Art Archivist at Detroit Institute of Arts (1955-1957); Director of the Music and Director of the Music and Art Center at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont (1960-1970); Lecturer in Music History at the Institute of European Studies in Vienna, Austria (1970-1972); Professor of Piano at Vienna Conservatory and Konservatonum für Musik und Dramatische Kunst in Vienna, Austria (1972-1983). During this time. he pursued his passionate interest in research on histoncal performance practice by availing himself of the rich musical resources available to him.
In 1983 Ray McIntyre returned to the San Francisco Bay Area where he lived with his family and taught piano and harpsichord. He was founder of Renaissance Music Guild in Detroit; Co-Founder of Vermont Music Teachers Association. He was a frequent adjudicator and lecturer-recitalist on historical performance for various organisations, including: San Diego Convention of the Californian Association of Professional Music Teachers (1985); National Convention of the Music Teachers National Association in Wichita, Kansas (1989); California State University in Sacramento (1987). He was awarded a Master Teacher Certificate by that organisation in 1993.
As a harpsichordist, Ray McIntyre rates with the best in the land: said the Detroit Free Press in 1956. In 1968, the New York Times wrote of him, "McIntyre's lorceful playing... showed a fine ability to accumulate the special austere kind of grandness of sonority and line the harpsichord is capable of...a serious musician with intelligent. individual ideas: Well informed on historical performance practice, and with his extensive background as a concert harpsichordist, Mr. McIntyre brings to site the harpsichord pieces of Couperin on the piano (and harpsichord) by demonstrating that with an understanding of the style elements, touch, articulation. note inequality. treatment of silence and an understanding of ornamentation, the harpsichord pieces of Couperin become..."
Ray McIntyre was Music Director and Performer on old keyboard instruments of 2 art films: A Portrait of Holland in the 17th Century and Venice in the 18th Century produced by Detroit Institute of Arts in 1953. Recordings: Harpsichord music by Couperin, Loeillet and Telemann (Music Library Records, San Francisco, 1953). Contributor To: Music Library Association Notes (1959); The Musical Quarterly (1965); Arbeiter Zeitung, Vienna (1981).
Ray McIntyre was married three times: Janet Sutter on August 28, 1957 (1 son, 1 daughter); Helga Rausch on September 17, 1971; Clare Spring on December 17, 1988. He lived in San Jose, California (as of 1992-1993). |
