Diana McIntosh

Diana McIntosh is a contemporary Canadian composer and pianist who is based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Hailed by the Canadian Encyclopedia as "a champion of 20th-century Canadian music", she has premiered piano works by such Canadian composers as Peter Allen, Norma Beecroft, Robert Daigneault, Alexina Louie, Marjan Mozetich, Boyd McDonald, Jean Papineau-Couture, Ann Southam, Robert Turner, and John Winiarz. In 1977, she and Southam co-founded Music Inter Alia (MIA), a concert series of "contemporary music for people who don't like contemporary music". She served as the MIA's director until 1991.