Title: Teaching Artist of Horn

Office Location: FAC 421

Phone: (515) 271 4835 or (641) 236-5120

E-mail: - guinniepals@yahoo.com

Guinevere McIntyre, Adjunct Teaching Artist in horn at Drake University since the fall of 2006, has enjoyed a rich and varied career as an educator and as an orchestral and chamber musician since completing her MM from Indiana University-Bloomington in 1995.

She has performed with the Shreveport Symphony, South Arkansas Symphony, Longview Symphony, Abilene Symphony, Cedar Rapids Symphony, and the Des Moines Symphony Orchestras. Positions held include assistant principal with the Charlotte Symphony, co-principal horn with the Midland-Odessa Symphony, and principal horn with Houston’s progressive OrchestraX and the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra. In 2006, she appeared as soloist with the Grinnell Symphony Orchestra in Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings. She has had the honor to back up a variety of artists in concert, from Joshua Bell to fiddler Mark O’Connor to popular artists James Taylor, Dennis DeYoung, and the Moody Blues. In 1994, she was engaged as principal horn in the orchestra for the noted New York String Orchestra Seminar for concerts in Carnegie Hall with Jaime Laredo. Recordings and broadcasts include Mahler Symphony No. 3 with Arpad Joo, conductor, as principal horn, and the Schubert Octet “Live from Round Top” in performance with Jorja Fleezanis, concertmaster of the Minnesota Symphony.

Ms. McIntyre is also active as a chamber musician, and has performed with the Des Moines Symphony Woodwind Quintet, as well as school programs with the Houston-based woodwind quintet Wind Expressions. In 1996, she toured the Rheinland-Pfaltz region of Germany with renowned saxophone soloist Eugene Rousseau, under the German government sponsored chamber music program Villa Musika, featuring music for woodwind quintet plus saxophone. Also an accomplished performer on the natural horn, she has toured with the IU Baroque Orchestra as co-soloist with IU natural horn professor Richard Seraphinoff, and in 2007, was engaged to perform as soloist with the Iowa Baroque Artists.

As a student at the Krakow Mozart Academy with the European Mozart Foundation, Ms. McIntyre had the opportunity to study with legendary European musicians including Aurele Nicolet, Milan Turkovich, and Boris Pergamenchikow, as well as perform chamber and orchestral concerts in Krakow, Poland and Prague, Czech Republic. In the USA, she has studied under some of the world’s most respected artists and pedagogues, including Myron Bloom, Michael Hatfield, Philip Farkas, and Frank Portone.

Ms. McIntyre lives on a small farm outside Grinnell, IA, with her family and their dogs Bibi, Little D, and Pippi. In addition to raising their small herd of dairy goats and sheep, they are active in puppy mill rescue.