About

Ingrid Matthews, violin (leader)

Violinist Ingrid Matthews is the Music Director of Seattle Baroque, and one of today's most respected exponents of her instrument. She won first prize in the Erwin Bodky International Competition for Early Music in 1989, and performed extensively with numerous leading period-instrument ensembles, including Tafelmusik, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and Joshua Rifkin's Bach Ensemble, before founding Seattle Baroque in 1994 with harpsichordist Byron Schenkman. In addition she serves as concertmaster for the New York Collegium, under the direction of Andrew Parrott, and has held the same position for the prestigious Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra. Matthews has won international critical acclaim for her extensive discography as a soloist, which ranges from the early seventeenth-century Italian repertoire to the complete Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin of J. S. Bach. Ingrid Matthews has served on the faculties of the University of Toronto, the University of Washington, Indiana University, and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

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