Violinist Judith Ingolfsson is celebrated for her commanding stage presence, artistic depth, and unwavering musical integrity. With a career that spans the globe, she performs as a soloist, chamber musician, and recitalist, including as a founding member of the Duo Ingolfsson-Stoupel. Her artistry has been praised by The New York Times for its “fireworks and a singing tone,” while Strings Magazine describes her sound as “gorgeous, intense, and variable, flawlessly pure and beautiful in every register.”

Judith Ingolfsson has appeared with renowned conductors including Wolfgang Sawallisch, Raymond Leppard, Gilbert Varga, Jesús López-Cobos, Gerard Schwarz, and Leonard Slatkin, performing with leading orchestras such as The Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Royal Chamber Orchestra of Tokyo, and the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra. Her concerts have taken her across the United States and to international stages in Germany, France, Spain, Japan, China, Russia, Hungary, Iceland, and beyond, with performances in iconic venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Konzerthaus Berlin, and Tokyo Opera City.

A Gold Medalist of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, she is also a prizewinner of the Premio Paganini Competition in Genoa and the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York. Recognized as National Public Radio’s Debut Artist of the Year, she studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music under Jascha Brodsky, David Cerone, and Donald Weilerstein.

Passionate about education and artistic leadership, Judith Ingolfsson serves as Professor of Violin at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University and is the co-artistic director and founder of Festival Aigues-Vives en Musiques in France and the Festival The Last Rose of Summer in Berlin, Germany. She performs on a 1750 Lorenzo Guadagnini violin and a viola crafted by Yair Hod Fainas.