Ingrid Matthews

Ingrid Matthews is a baroque violinist, jazz violinist and visual artist based in Seattle Washington.

She won first prize in the Irwin Bodky International Competition for Early Music in 1989, and became a member of Toronto's Tafelmusik before co-founding the Seattle Baroque Orchestra with harpsichordist Byron Schenkman in 1994. She served as Music Director of Seattle Baroque Orchestra from 1994 to 2013, simultaneously working as a soloist, guest director and chamber musician with many other prominent early music ensembles including the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Ars Lyrica of Houston, the Bach Sinfonia of Washington DC and many others. She served as concertmaster of the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra and of the New York Collegium under Andrew Parrott in the 1990s, and has been active throughout her career as a chamber musician, notably with the ensemble La Luna. Matthews has taught at Indiana University, USC in Los Angeles, the University of Toronto, and at numerous festivals and workshops. Her extensive discography includes much seicento repertoire, the violin Sonatas of Elisabeth Jaquet de la Guerre, and the Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin of J.S. Bach, which won high critical acclaim. She is a graduate of Indiana University, where she studied with Josef Gingold and Stanley Ritchie.

Matthews began playing gypsy jazz and swing styles in 2014 and is active in the Seattle early jazz scene.

She is also active as a visual artist. An abstract painter, her work has been shown in numerous solo and group shows in Seattle and elsewhere.