Ingrid Matthews is a Visiting Associate Professor at Indiana University, and one of today’s most respected baroque violinists. She won first prize in the Erwin Bodky International Competition for Early Music in 1989, and since then has appeared as soloist, guest director, chamber musician, and concertmaster with leading ensembles including the New York Collegium, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Ars Lyrica (Houston), Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra (Toronto), Musica Pacifica (San Francisco), and countless others. She co-founded the Seattle Baroque Orchestra and served as its Music Director from 1994 to 2013. Matthews has won high critical acclaim for her extensive discography; her recording of the Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin of J.S. Bach has been named “top recommendation for this music... on either period or modern instruments” by American Record Guide. Ingrid also plays jazz and swing styles (she was a member a Seattle’s all-female jazz band “Lulu Swing”) and is active as a visual artist (she is the featured artist in an episode of “Commissioned,” the Design Network’s documentary series about art and artists). Ingrid lives in Bloomington with her greyhound, Socks.