Since winning the Gold Medal of the prestigious International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in 1998, the Icelandic-American violinist JUDITH INGOLFSSON has established herself worldwide as an artist of uncompromising musical maturity, extraordinary technical command and charismatic performance style.

Judith Ingolfsson has been heard with over one-hundred orchestras in the United States, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. Abroad, her engagements have included the Bollington Festival Orchestra (UK), Brandenburgisches Staatorchester Frankfurt, Jenaer Philharmonie, Neubrandenburg Philharmonie, the Bohemian Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra (Czech Republic), Filarmonica de Stat Sibiu (Romania), Saratov Philharmonic (Russia), Royal Chamber Orchestra of Tokyo, Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille, the Iceland Symphony and the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra. She has collaborated with many of the acclaimed maestri of our time, including Jesus López-Cobos, Raymond Leppard, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Gerard Schwarz, Rico Saccani and Leonard Slatkin. Ms. Ingolfsson was also heard as soloist with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra in 2000 on its highly acclaimed 15-city North American tour, highlighted by performances at New York City's Carnegie Hall, and the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.

Judith Ingolfsson's recital performances have taken her to many of the world's leading stages including Carnegie Hall, National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, Cleveland Museum of Art, La Jolla Chamber Music Society, Reykjavík Arts Festival, Pro Arte Musicale of Puerto Rico, La Asociación Nacional de Conciertos de Panamá, Macao Cultural Center, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Center, the Bargemusic series in Brooklyn and Konzerthaus Berlin. An avid chamber musician, she has collaborated with the Avalon, Miami and Vogler String Quartets and the Broyhill Chamber Ensemble, and has appeared as a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Two on tour and at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Her festival appearances include the Appalachian Summer Festival, Boulder Bach Festival, Cape and Islands Chamber Music Festival, Grand Teton Music Festival, Strings in the Mountains Music Festival, Finland's Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, Germany's Bodensee Festival, Poland's "New Faces, New Music" Festival and the Spoleto Festival USA.

Highlights of Judith Ingolfsson's current season include performances in Europe with the Mendelssohn Kammerorchester Leipzig, the Filarmonica de Stat Sibiu and in the United States, with the Long Bay, Monterey and Westerville symphony orchestras. A series recitals consisting of the complete solo sonatas of Eugene Ysaye are followed by performances at the Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival. In addition to numerous recitals in the United States and Europe with her duo-partner, the pianist Vladimir Stoupel, she has been named Artist in Residence for the year 2010 at the Villa Esche in Chemnitz, Germany.

Prior to her triumph at the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, Ms. Ingolfsson was a top prizewinner at over a dozen national and international competitions, including the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York City, the D'Angelo International Young Artists Competition and the Paganini International Violin Competition in Genoa, Italy. 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 on Catalpa Classics, featuring a varied program ranging from Bach to Ned Rorem. Her recording of Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, available on the BPO Live label, was released in 2007.

Born in Reykjavik, Iceland to an Icelandic father and Swiss mother, Judith Ingolfsson began her violin studies at the age of three and gave her first public performance on Icelandic State Television at age five. At the age of eight she recorded as soloist with the Iceland Symphony for Icelandic State Radio and a few weeks later performed her orchestral solo debut in Germany. Her family immigrated to the United States in 1980, and at the age of 14 was admitted to The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she studied with Jascha Brodsky. She went on to earn her Master's degree and Artists Diploma from the Cleveland Institute of Music as a student of David Cerone and Donald Weilerstein.

In addition to her active performance and recording schedule, Judith Ingolfsson is a dedicated and enthusiastic educator. She gives master classes around the world and has held faculty positions at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Cleveland Institute of Music and Encore School for Strings. She is currently Professor at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart and co-artistic director and founder of Festival International "Aigues-Vives en Musiques" in France.

She performs on a Lorenzo Guadagnini violin, crafted in 1750, and a Dominique Peccatte bow.