ABOUT SARAH MCINTYRE

Sarah McIntyre is a student at the University of Toronto, where she has received the President’s Scholar of Excellence Award, and specializes in Jazz Performance. She will be graduating in 2024 with a Bachelor of Music. 

 

Sarah has studied and performed diverse repertoire in the styles of jazz, latin, funk, and classical music. She has been very fortunate to work with world class musicians, including Bria Skonberg, Harold Mabern, Christine Jensen, Wynton Marsalis, Jens Lindemann, Sean Jones, Terri Lyne Carrington, Darmon Meader, and many others. She has been in many honour groups in a range of genres, including the Honour Jazz Band at the 2019 British Columbia Music Educators Association conference, the Denis Wick Canadian Wind Orchestra as part of Musicfest Canada in both 2019, 2020, and 2021, the National Youth Band of Canada, and the Sean Jones Cornerstone Jazz Orchestra, through Caleb Chapman’s Soundhouse. 

 

She held the position of Principal Trumpet in the Okanagan Symphony Youth Orchestra from 2017 to 2020, and was the trumpet soloist of the Okanagan Irish Society in 2018 and 2019. She has attended camps and workshops throughout North America, including the Teagarden Traditional Jazz Camp in California, the Sitka Fine Arts Camp Jazz Intensive in Alaska, and the VSO School of Music Girls Jazz Workshop in British Columbia. 

 

Sarah was diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis in 2014 at the age of eleven, and was declared in remission a year later. The arthritis returned in June of 2019 and had spread into her hands. As a trumpet player, this was a big adjustment and changed her life in many ways. Sarah continues to be an advocate for people with disabilities and raise awareness for youth living with arthritis and other chronic illnesses. 

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For more of her honours and accomplishments, please visit the "press" page.