Judith Ingolfsson
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Already at the age of five, Ingolfsson appeared in a performance on Icelandic TV, and she made her solo orchestral debut in GermanyGermany
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at the age of eight.
A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music
Curtis Institute of Music
The Curtis Institute of Music is a conservatory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that offers courses of study leading to a performance Diploma, Bachelor of Music, Master of Music in Opera, and Professional Studies Certificate in Opera. According to statistics compiled by U.S...
and Cleveland Institute of Music
Cleveland Institute of Music
The Cleveland Institute of Music is an independent music conservatory located in the University Circle district of Cleveland, Ohio, United States and is overseen by president Joel Smirnoff and Adrian Daly, dean....
, Ingolfsson studied with Jascha Brodsky
Jascha Brodsky
Jascha Brodsky was a Russian-American violinist and teacher.Born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Russian Empire, he began his violin studies with his violinist father at the age of six. He later studied at the conservatory in Tbilisi, Georgia, and by 1926, was performing successfully all over the Soviet Union...
, David Cerone
David Cerone
David Cerone was a co-founder of the ENCORE School for Strings, where he co-directed and served as faculty member since 1985. Mr. Cerone serves as a juror for many prominent national and international violin competitions and presents master classes around the world. An active chamber musician, he...
and Donald Weilerstein.
She has been a guest soloist with some of the world’s leading orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra
Philadelphia Orchestra
The Philadelphia Orchestra is a symphony orchestra based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. One of the "Big Five" American orchestras, it was founded in 1900...
, St. Louis Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, the Budapest Philharmonic and National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D.C.
In 1998, she won a Gold Medal
Gold Medal
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at the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. Also a prize winner at the Concert Artists Guild Competition and the Paganini International Violin Competition
Paganini Competition
The Paganini Competition is an international violin competition named after the famed virtuoso and founder of contemporary violin technique Niccolò Paganini. Created in 1954 it has been carried out ever since in the months of September and October. The "Paganini Competition" is one of the most...
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In 1999, National Public Radio's Performance Today named Ingolfsson Debut Artist of the Year praising her "remarkable intelligence, musicality, and sense of insight."
In October 2000, she was heard as soloist with the Iceland Symphony on a 15-city North American tour, highlighted by concerts at New York’s Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
and Kennedy Center.
She was awarded the 2001 Chamber Music America / WQXR Record Award for her debut CD on Catalpa Classics.
She has collaborated with many renowned conductors, including Leonard Slatkin
Leonard Slatkin
Leonard Edward Slatkin is an American conductor and composer.-Early life and education:Slatkin was born in Los Angeles to a musical family that came from areas of the Russian Empire now in Ukraine. His father Felix Slatkin was the violinist, conductor and founder of the Hollywood String Quartet,...
, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Raymond Leppard, Jorge Mester and Gerard Schwarz
Gerard Schwarz
Gerard Schwarz is an American conductor. He was music director of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra from 1985 to 2011.In 2007 Schwarz was named music director of the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina, having served as principal conductor since 2005...
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In recital, she has performed throughout the United States and abroad, notably at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Institute of Music
Cleveland Institute of Music
The Cleveland Institute of Music is an independent music conservatory located in the University Circle district of Cleveland, Ohio, United States and is overseen by president Joel Smirnoff and Adrian Daly, dean....
, La Jolla Chamber Music Society, Grand Teton Music Festival, and Reykjavik Arts Festival in Iceland.
An avid chamber musician, she has recently performed with the Miami String Quartet, the Avalon String Quartet and with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center is an American organization dedicated to the performance and promotion of chamber music. Its website states that it is "the nation’s premier repertory company for chamber music."...
Two.
Highlights of her 2005-2006 season include debut concerto engagements in Brazil
Brazil
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and Russia
Russia
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, as well as in the United States, performances with the Louisville Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Fairfax Symphony, Columbus Symphony and others.
Recital and chamber music engagements include concerts in Germany and Italy, as well as the Juniper Music Festival in Utah and the acclaimed Barge Music series in New York.
Ingolfsson has appeared on many radio and television broadcasts - beginning, as noted above, 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).
She was appointed Assistant Professor of Violin at the University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Colorado at Boulder
The University of Colorado Boulder is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado...
, in August 2006. She will leave this post to join the faculty at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart in October 2008.
Judith Ingolfsson performs regularly with the Russian pianist Vladimir Stoupel
Vladimir Stoupel
-Biography:Stoupel was a top prizewinner at the Geneva International Music Competition in 1986, and has performed as soloist with many of the leading orchestras of the world, including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Gewandhausorchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Munich Symphony...
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