Ingrid Matthews is recognized as one of the leading baroque violinists and period instrument performers.
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 the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
[1] Matthews founded Seattle Baroque Orchestra with harpsichordist Byron Schenkman in 1994 and was the Music Director from 1994 to 2013.
[2][3] Matthews recorded many works from the baroque period, (including the Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin by Johann Sebastian Bach).