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Since winning the 1998 Gold Medal of the prestigious International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, Judith Ingolfsson has established herself world-wide as an artist of uncompromising musical maturity, extraordinary technical command, and charismatic performance style. A native of Iceland, Judith Ingolfsson began studying violin at the age of three and made her debut as an orchestral soloist in Germany at the age of eight.
In the United States she has been heard with the Philadelphia Orchestra,
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, and Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra, as well as the orchestras of Austin, Binghamton, Dayton, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Memphis, New Haven, Omaha, San Diego, South Carolina, Vermont, Victoria, West Virginia, Wichita, and the Pacific Symphony Orchestra. She has collaborated with many of the acclaimed maestri of our time, including Jesus López-Cobos, Raymond Leppard, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Gerard Schwarz, and Leonard Slatkin.
Ms. Ingolfsson was also heard as soloist with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra on its 2000 15-city North American tour, highlighted by a performance at New York City’s Carnegie Hall. Abroad, her engagements have included the Czech Republic’’s Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Chamber Orchestra of Tokyo and Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, with which she recorded the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto for the orchestra’s BPO Live label.
Highlights of Judith Ingolfsson’s current season include performances with the
Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the Louisville Orchestra, and the symphony orchestras of Columbus (GA), Dubuque, Fairfax (VA), Greenwich, and Long Bay (SC). She also appears in recital with pianist Vladimir Stoupel on Brooklyn’’s famed Bargemusic series.
Judith Ingolfsson’s recital performances have taken her throughout the United States and around the world: the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Cleveland Institute of Music, La Jolla Chamber Music Society, Reykjavík Arts Festival, Pro Arte Musicale of Puerto Rico, La Asociación Nacional de Conciertos de Panamá, Macao Cultural Center, and Tokyo Metropolitan Art Center. An avid chamber musician, she has collaborated with the Avalon and Miami String Quartets and the Broyhill Chamber Ensemble, and has appeared, both on tour and at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ Alice Tully Hall, with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Two. Her festival appearances include the Cape and Islands Chamber Music Festival, Grand Teton Music Festival, Finland’’s Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, Germany’’s Bodensee Festival, Switzerland’’s Menuhin Festival, and the Orlando Festival in The Netherlands.
Judith Ingolfsson has frequently appeared on radio and television broadcasts,
beginning with a performance on Icelandic TV at the age of five. Since then she has been seen on PBS, "CBS Sunday Morning," and Japan’s National Broadcasting Company (NHK). In 1999 National Public Radio’s "Performance Today" named her "Debut Artist of the Year" for her "remarkable intelligence, musicality, and sense of insight." She is also the recipient of the 2001 Chamber Music America/WQXR Record Award for her debut CD for Catalpa Classics, featuring a varied program ranging from Bach to Ned Rorem.
At the age of 14 Judith Ingolfsson was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she pursued studies with the legendary violinist and pedagogue Jascha Brodsky. She went on to earn her Master’’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music as a student of David Cerone, and continued her graduate studies at the same institution while working with Donald Weilerstein. Prior to her triumph at the Indianapolis Competition, Ms. Ingolfsson was a prize-winner at the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York City and the Paganini International Violin Competition in Genoa, Italy.
Judith Ingolfsson currently makes her home in New York City. She has recently been appointed Assistant Professor of Violin at the University of Colorado at Boulder beginning August 2006.
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