Washington Chamber Orchestra: Judith Ingolfsson plays Mendelssohn
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- Judith Ingolfsson, violin
- Jun Kim, conductor
Felix Mendelssohn — Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
Virtuoso violinist Judith Ingolfsson, Gold medalist of the Indianapolis Violin Competition and a prize winner of the Paganini Violin Competition, will be joining the WCO for the final concert cycle of the season to perform Mendelssohn's beloved Violin Concerto. The WCO will perform Haydn's final Symphony No. 104, also known as "London," which is considered to be the crowning achievement of all of Haydn's symphonic works.
Two performances:
- Friday, May 10, 2024, 7:30pm at Annunciation Church in DC
- Saturday, May 11, 8pm at Bethel Korean Presbyterian Church in Ellicott City, MD
About Judith Ingolfsson, violin
Violinist Judith Ingolfsson is recognized for her intense, commanding performances, uncompromising musical maturity, and charismatic performance style. Based in Berlin and Baltimore and enjoying a global career, she performs regularly as soloist, chamber musician and in recital as the Duo Ingolfsson-Stoupel, founded in 2006. The New York Times has characterized her playing as producing "both fireworks and a singing tone" and Strings Magazine described her tone as "gorgeous, intense, and variable, flawlessly pure, and beautiful in every register."
She has collaborated with conductors such as Wolfgang Sawallisch, Raymond Leppard, Gilbert Varga, Jesús López-Cobos, Rico Saccani, Gerard Schwarz, and Leonard Slatkin, and appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Chamber Orchestra of Tokyo, the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt (Oder). Concerts have taken her through almost the entire USA and to many other countries, including Germany, France, Spain,the Czech Republic, Russia, China, Japan, Hungary, Iceland, Puerto Rico, Panama, Hong Kong, and Macau. She has played in many of the world's most famous venues, including the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Tokyo Opera City, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and New York's Carnegie Hall.
Judith Ingolfsson studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Jascha Brodsky, David Cerone, and Donald Weilerstein. In addition to winning the Gold Medal at the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in 1998, Judith Ingolfsson was also a prizewinner at the Premio Paganini Competition in Genoa and at the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York. In 1999, she was honored by National Public Radio as Debut Artist of the Year.
She is currently Professor of Violin at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, co-artistic director and founder of the Festival "Aigues-Vives en Musiques" in France and the International Bach Academy Eisenach in Germany. She performs on a Lorenzo Guadagnini violin, crafted in 1750, and a viola by Yair Hod Fainas.
https://www.judithingolfsson.com/