Michael McIntosh
Michael McIntosh (Minneapolis, MN) is an AI Solutions Architect and VP of Strategic Accounts for Digital Treehouse, an AI marketing company. He is the founder of MikeMikeMusic LLC, MilkHat Media, and a graduate of Butler University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music with an emphasis in composition.
Now in his 30th year designing for Carmel High School in Carmel, Indiana, McIntosh served as the program’s percussion specialist from 1997 to 2011. During his time, Carmel ensembles have been named 3A National Champions in 2001, 2017, and 2018, and Bands of America Grand National Champions six times (2005, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022). Across two different performing groups, he has contributed to seven Highest Achievement in Music awards at BOA Grand National Championships.
He has designed, coordinated, consulted, and composed for pageantry groups throughout the United States and Japan.
Compositionally, McIntosh has been a TapSpace contributor for more than twenty years and has created content for commercial projects across digital media, including video games, startups, and advertising. His commissioned works include pieces for the Midwest Band Directors Convention, the West Point Hellcats, and the U.S. Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps. In 2018, the Contemporary Youth Orchestra commissioned him to write an original orchestral work, MESH, which premiered at The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. His music is published by SmartMusic, Row-Loff Publications, Yamaha Sounds of Summer, Key Poulan Music, Drop 6 Media, The Hal Leonard Corporation, Innovative Percussion, Marching Show Concepts, Alfred Music, and JKS Music.
In 2022, he was named percussion designer for the Bands of America Honor Band in the Rose Parade. McIntosh is a Yamaha artist and clinician. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife Joy, their two daughters, and three dogs.