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The American violinist, Ingrid Matthews, graduated from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, where she studied with Josef Gingold and Stanley Ritchie. In 1989 she was awarded first prize in the Erwin Bodky International Competition for Early Music.
Ingrid Matthews is recognized as one of the leading Baroque violinists and period instrument performers. and in 1990 joined Toronto's esteemed Baroque orchestra Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra (Director: Jeanne Lamon), with whom she performed extensively throughout Canada, the USA, Europe, and Asia. In 1994 she founded the Seattle Baroque Orchestra with then-harpsichordist (now pianist) Byron Schenkman 1994 and was the Music Director from July 1994 to June 2013. Byron Schenkman and Matthews also work intensively as a duo. Both were founding members of the chamber ensemble La Luna, whose three CD's and dozens of performances met with rave reviews between 1995 and 2002.
Ingrid Matthews has served as concert-master for orchestras such as the New York Collegium (Director: Andrew Parrott), Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, and Musica Angelica (Los Angeles); and has appeared as a guest director and soloist with many other leading period-instrument ensembles, including the New York Collegium, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra (Director: Paul Dyer), Magnolia Baroque Festival Orchestra (Winston-Salem, NC), New Trinity Baroque (Directors: John Holloway/Predrag Gosta) (Atlanta), Bach Sinfonia (Director: Daniel E. Abraham) (Washington DC), Les Idées heureuses (Director: Geneviève Soly) (Montreal), Indiana University Baroque Orchestra (Director: Daniel R. Melamed), Victoria Symphony, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (Directors: Nicholas McGegan/Richard Egarr) and many others.
Ingrid Matthews' career as a chamber musician has taken her to such venues as the Frick Collection (New York), the Boston Early Music Festival, the Berkeley Festival, Netwoork voor Oude Muziek (the Netherlands), the Getty Center (Los Angeles), the Pittsburgh Renaissance and Baroque Society, Early Music Vancouver, Woodstock Concerts, the Cambridge Society for Early Music, the Newberry Library (Chicago), CBC-Toronto, the San Francisco Early Music Society, and the Library of Congress, among many others.
One of the most-recorded baroque violinists of her generation, Ingrid Matthews has won international critical acclaim for a discography which ranges from the earliest solo violin repertoire through the great Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin Nos. 1-6, BWV 1001-1006 of J.S. Bach. Of the latter recording, the critic for American Record Guide writes "this superb recording is my top recommendation for this music… on either modern or period instruments."
Ingrid Matthews has served on the faculties of the University of Toronto, the University of Washington, Indiana University, the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, the International Baroque Institute at Longy, and Amherst Early Music; and has given master-classes in baroque repertoire and style at numerous colleges and universities. She is currently on the faculty of Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle.
Ingrid Matthews is also known as Ingrid Matthews Olson. A passionate life-long interest in the visual arts has led her to amass an eclectic training in various techniques, and her paintings have occasionally been seen in public. |
