Lindsay McIntyre is a Canadian vocal artist
whose work lies at the intersection of technical precision and the magic of mindful experience. Awed by the natural world, Lindsay believes music making is a form of transfiguration: creating moments out of thin air. A scholar of the voice, body, and meditative practices, Lindsay is particularly passionate about using her instrument as a vessel for contemporary music. Lindsay is a versatile singer, celebrated for her crystalline extension, grounded presence, and captivating vocal colour.
Recent new music highlights include Reich’s “Drumming” with Sō Percussion and Nathalie Joachim, Trever Weston’s “STARS”, and David Lang, Julia Wolfe, and Michael Gordon’s “Shelter” at Bang on a Can’s LOUD WEEKEND; three seasons of “Electric Messiah,” “Garden of Vanished Pleasures,” Claude Vivier’s “Love Songs” and “Musik für das Ende,” and Reich’s “Drumming” with TorQ & NEXUS percussion quartets with Soundstreams; and selections of Joelle Wallach’s “Piecicitos” with the Bedford Trio.
Lindsay has appeared as a soloist in Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” with the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Handle’s “Dixit Dominus” with the Toronto Mendelssohn Singers, Buxtehude’s “Membra Jesu Nostri” and the Canadian premier of Craig Hella Johnson’s “Considering Matthew Sheppard” with the Grand Philharmonic Chamber Choir, and BWV 4 & BWV 165 with the Theatre of Early Music.
On the operatic stage, Lindsay has performed the roles of Euridice in the North American stage premiere of Haydn’s “L’anima del filosofo,” Sophie in Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier,” First Witch in Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas,” Hero in Berlioz’s “Béatrice et Bénédict,” Titania in Purcell’s “The Fairy Queen.”
With support from the Canada Council of the Arts, Lindsay was a 2023 participant in the Yellow Barn Music Festival, and international chamber music festival held in Putney, Vermont, and a 2024 Musician-in-Residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Lindsay was a 2025 fellow at the Bang on a Can festival, and previously held a professional fellowship at the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival.
Lindsay holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in performance from the University of Toronto, where she was the first ever vocalist to win the DMA recital competition, was a recipient of one of seven graduating awards given to students “deemed to have the greatest potential to make an important contribution to the field of music,” and was a two-time recipient of the David and Marcia Beach Summer Study award. Lindsay’s doctoral research studied the impact of an 8-week mindfulness intervention on students suffering from Music Performance Anxiety (MPA).