Pianist Rita McIntyre is an accomplished vocalist, pianist and organist. She is the Director of Music Ministries at Cross in the Woods in Indian River.

Originally from L'Anse, MI, she began playing piano at the age of 3 and by the time she was 12, was singing and playing regularly at her church and school.  She studied piano, voice and piano pedagogy at Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory in Berea, Ohio and some graduate studies in voice at the Cleveland Institute of Music.  She has sung under Christoph von Dohnanyi, Leonard Slatkin, Valdmir Ashkenazy, and Robert Shaw.  She has also sung in several Early Music ensembles, performing repertoire of composers from Josquin to Bach.

McIntyre has served as music director at
Burt Lake Christian Church, and has been music director at St. Mary of the Assumption parish in Charlevoix where she still teaches music.  She also teaches piano in both Charlevoix and Indian River.  She is married to the Rev. Glen McIntyre and lives in Burt Lake.