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 made her debut as 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, Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra and The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, as well as the orchestras of Austin, Bakersfield, Binghamton, Boulder, Bozeman, Dayton, Grand Rapids, Hudson Valley, Kalamazoo, Kenosha, Las Cruces, Lexington, Louisville, Memphis, New Haven, Omaha, Pacific, Roswell, San Diego, San Juan, South Carolina, Vermont, Victoria, West Virginia and Wichita; and 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, while, abroad, her engagements have included England’s Bollington Festival Orchestra, Germany’s Brandenburgisches Staatorchester Frankfurt, Jenaer Philharmonie and Neubrandenburg Philharmonie, the Czech Republic’s Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Romania’s Filarmonica de Stat Sibiu, Russia’s Saratov Philharmonic, Royal Chamber Orchestra of Tokyo and Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, with which she recorded the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto for the orchestra’s BPO Live label.
 
Judith Ingolfsson’s current U.S. season is highlighted by another return engagement with the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra. With her husband, pianist Vladimir Stoupel, she also tours throughout Europe with The Ingolfsson-Stoupel Duo.

Judith Ingolfsson’s recital performances have taken her throughout the United States and around the world: National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, 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. With pianist Vladimir Stoupel, she has performed in Germany, Italy and on Brooklyn’s famed Bargemusic series. 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 Appalachian Summer Festival, Boulder Bach Festival, Cape and Islands Chamber Music Festival, Fayetteville 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. 2008 saw the release of her recording of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, available on the orchestra’s own label. "Simon Laks en hommage," was issued in 2010 on the German EDA label and Eugène Ysaÿe’s Six Sonatas for Violin Solo, Op. 27 was released on the Genuin label early in 2011, while her most recent recording - Stravinsky’s Divertimento and Shostakovich’s Violin Sonata, with pianist Vladimir Stoupel - was issued in October, 2011 on Audite.

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, who began violin studies at the age of three, was a prize-winner at the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York City and the Paganini International Violin Competition in Genoa, Italy. In 2008, she concluded two years of service on the faculty of the College of Music of the University of Colorado at Boulder. In the Fall of 2008, she was appointed Professor on the distinguished faculty of the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart.

In 2006, Judith Ingolfsson was appointed to the faculty of the College of Music of the University of Colorado at Boulder. She performs on a Lorenzo Guadagnini violin, crafted in 1750.

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"In a taut account of Bach’s unaccompanied Sonata No. 3, Ms. Ingolfsson did a fine job of keeping the voices and relationships in the fugue clear and distinct, and she gave a sizzling account of the closing Allegro assai.  She ended with Wieniawski’s Fantaisie Brillante, a diffuse showpiece that invites a violinist to produce both fireworks and a singing tone, areas in which Ms. Ingolfsson had by then shown her considerable strengths."
THE NEW YORK TIMES

"In the little more than two years since she played her debut here, Judith Ingolfsson has won major competitions and prizes.  When she played again Friday at St. Mark’s Church - the same setting as her debut - she showed that her recent experience has expanded her ability to let her music speak confidently and personally to listeners."
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

"Violinist Judith Ingolfsson was superb in her straddling of Barber’s opposing impulses of romance and sobriety, and she displayed welcome earnestness and virtuosity in athletic passages."
SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE

"Ingolfsson brought her 1683 Stradivarius to Annapolis to play the Violin Concerto of Aram Khachaturian, a work full of pulsating rhythms, exotic folk melodies and eye-popping displays of technical fireworks. The performance was spectacular."
THE BALTIMORE SUN

"Guest soloist Judith Ingolfsson is a violinist whose star has risen, the winner of the prestigious gold medal in the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in 1998. She played the early upper-register strains of the neo-Romantic and arresting Violin Concerto in D by Korngold. Ingolfsson used every millimeter of the bow and dispatched upper-register scale runs with searing intensity. Most impressive was her ability to make the instrument sing, communicating emotion with an ethereal magic."
NEW HAVEN REGISTER

"The best was the Violin Concerto by Samuel Barber, played by the superb young violinist Judith Ingolfsson. She ingratiated her sound superbly with the ensemble; she was at once part of the orchestra, and above it. Her instrument projected a meaty, gorgeous sound in all registers, and Ingolfsson negotiated the lyrical melodies and the more agitated measures with soulful assurance. In the ‘perpetual motion’ third movement, she displayed the precise bravura technique that won her the top prizes at several prestigious competitions."
THE WICHITA EAGLE

"Judith Ingolfsson was featured in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D, and she brought the house down. Santa Maria audiences know and appreciate exquisite performances."
SANTA BARBARA NEWS-PRESS

"Judith Ingolfsson, a violinist from Iceland, played Barber’s Violin Concerto with just the right mixture of easy grace, sonic luster and patrician refinement."
THE WASHINGTON POST

"Her talent has blossomed into consummate instrumental mastery. Her intonation is perfect, and her tone is gorgeous, intense, and variable, flawlessly pure and beautiful in every register, under all circumstances."
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