Judith Ingolfsson

Assistant Professor of Violin

Email: judith.ingolfsson@colorado.edu
Websites: http://www.ingolfssonviolinstudio.com http://www.judithingolfsson.com
Office Location: Room N153, Imig Music Building
Office Phone: 303-492-0200
Mailing Address: 301 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0301

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, as well as the orchestras of Austin, Binghamton, Dayton, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Louisville, Memphis, New Haven, Omaha, Pacific, San Diego, 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 the Czech Republic's Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, 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.

Highlights of Judith Ingolfsson's 2006-2007 season include a return engagement with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, performances with Berlin's Orchestra of Schloss Britz, the Neubrandenburg Philharmonie, the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra, San Juan Symphony, New Philharmonic and Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra. With pianist Vladimir Stoupel she is heard in recital in New York, Philadelphia, Potsdam, Frankfurt, Zürich and Berlin, and at the festival "New Faces - New Music" in Krakow, Poland. She also performs as a guest artist with Colorado's Strings in the Mountains Music Festival, New York's Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival, as well as the Boulder Bach Festival and the Ronen Chamber Ensemble. 

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, 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, 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 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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