Ingrid Matthews

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Ingrid Matthews is Music Director of the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, and is recognized as one of world's leading baroque violinists and period instrument performers. In 1989 she was awarded first prize in the Erwin Bodky International Competition for Early Music, and she has performed extensively with leading period-instrument ensembles such as Tafelmusik, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and many others. Matthews has served as concertmaster for the New York Collegium, under the direction of Andrew Parrott, and for the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, and as a guest director/soloist with numerous groups across North America. She studied with Josef Gingold and Stanley Ritchie at Indiana University. Matthews is among the most recorded baroque violinists of her generation, with 8 solo recordings (including the Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin by Johann Sebastian Bach).