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Mary Lynn Fixler, VP 266 W. 37th Street, 20th FL New York, NY 10018 Fax: +1 (212) 397-5860 |
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Mary Lynn Fixler, VP 266 W. 37th Street, 20th FL New York, NY 10018 Fax: +1 (212) 397-5860 |
Violinist Judith Ingolfsson commands a distinguished position among the world's foremost young musicians. Ms. Ingolfsson sprung to international attention in 1998 when she won the Gold Medal at the highly esteemed International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. Also a prize winner at the Concert Artists Guild Competition and the Paganini International Violin Competition, Ms. Ingolfsson was awarded the 2001 Chamber Music America / WQXR Record Award for her debut CD on Catalpa Classics. In 1999, National Public Radio's Performance Today named her Debut Artist of the Year praising her "remarkable intelligence, musicality, and sense of insight."
Ms. Ingolfsson made her solo orchestral debut in Germany at the age of eight, and has subsequently been a guest soloist with some of the finest orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony and the National Symphony. In October 2000, Ms. Ingolfsson embarked on an acclaimed 15-city North American tour with the Iceland Symphony that included the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall. She has collaborated with many renowned conductors, including Leonard Slatkin, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Raymond Leppard, Jorge Mester and Gerard Schwarz. Other recent highlights include performances with the Symphony Orchestras of New Haven, Memphis, San Diego, Indianapolis, Dayton, Grand Rapids, Victoria, Vermont, Long Bay, Peoria, Cape Cod and West Virginia as well as the South Carolina and Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestras, the Pacific Symphony and the New York Pops Orchestra with Skitch Henderson in Carnegie Hall.
As a recitalist, she has performed throughout the United States and abroad, including her Carnegie Hall debut recital in 2000, the La Jolla Chamber Music Society, Grand Teton Music Festival, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Reykjavík Arts Festival in Iceland, Pro Arte Musicale in Puerto Rico, La Asociación Nacional de Conciertos de Panamá and the Macau Cultural Center. In addition to being a performing member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's Chamber Music Society Two, her festival appearances include the Cape and Islands Chamber Music Festival, the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland, the Menuhin Festival in Switzerland, and the Orlando Festival in the Netherlands.
A graduate of the Curtis and Cleveland Institutes of Music, Ms. Ingolfsson studied with Jascha Brodsky, David Cerone and Donald Weilerstein. She performs on the 1736 Antonio Stradivarius violin, "Muntz", generously provided on loan by the Nippon Music Foundation. Born in Reykjavík, Iceland, she currently makes her home in New York City.
