Antonia Barnett-McIntosh

Antonia Barnett-McIntosh is a composer, performer, sound artist and freelance curator with an interest in working across disciplines, particularly with speech and language. She has collaborated extensively with musicians, theatre and filmmakers, dancers, visual artists and poets. Antonia's compositional concerns lie in the specificity of sound gestures and their variation, translation and adaptation, often employing chance-based and procedural operations.

Antonia studied music composition at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington, receiving a First Class Honours degree with Distinction and a Bachelor of Arts in History in 2006. In 2010 she graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London with a Master of Music in Composition.

Antonia has presented work in Europe, the UK, Scandinavia, Aotearoa, Australia, and the US: with Aurora Orchestra, Phaedra Ensemble, Bastard Assignments, DieOrdnungDerDinge, Chroma, Red Note Ensemble, Riot Ensemble, NorthArc, SoundPlay, Stroma, and Tudor Consort; at Wigmore Hall, Barbican, Kings Place, Café OTO, Wellcome Collection, Spike Island Gallery, Robin Howard Dance Theatre, Traverse Theatre, Chisenhale Dance Space, Theater im Aufbau Haus (TAK), DAAD Galerie, ausland, Studio8, Galerie Pleiku, Strahler Berlin, Hannah Playhouse, Thistle Hall, The Pyramid Club, and Audio Foundation; at HOFFNUNG3000, City of London Festival, Taste Festival Berlin, Festspillene i Nord-Norge, Capital Fringe Festival Washington D.C., 4 Days at Arnolfini Bristol, Performance Art Week Aotearoa, Suffrage 125, BIFEM 2019, and as part of Weisslich concert series, Kammer Klang at Café OTO, and BBC Radio3's Hear and Now concerts for 'Why Music?'; as Artist in Residence with Hubbub Group, Wellcome Collection, London (2014–16), Morni Hills, Chandigarh (2017), Te Kōkī-New Zealand School of Music (2018–19), and Q-O2, Brussels (2019). Antonia was on the Committee of Te Rōpū Kaitito Puoro o Aotearoa / The Composers Association of New Zealand 2019–2022, during which time she was Editor of Canzonetta (2019–2021), Secretary (2020–2021), and President (2021–2022).

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