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"Culturally something happens, you know," she continues. "I didn't live in Iceland during my formative years, but I've had access to so many nationalities I find myself at home everywhere. The familiarity of the American culture is quite clear though - I know how it works and what I need to do. I'm the most efficient here."
"But my Mom was my model and she practiced, and my sister pushed me. In fact we played these... games until we were teenagers, where she'd ask me how long I'd practiced and if I said '15 minutes' she'd say 'Well, I practiced for an hour!' and so on."Today [Judith Ingolfsson] has a flourishing worldwide career. In 1998 she won the Gold Medal at the prestigious International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, and she has performed at the La Jolla Chamber Music Society, the Reykjavik Arts Festival, La Asociacíon Nacional de Conciertos de Panama, and Tokyo Metropolitan Art Center. She has appeared at a number of festivals, among them Switzerland's Menuhin Festival and the Orlando Festival in the Netherlands, and has made several TV appearances as well, both in the US and abroad. In 1999 National Public Radio's "Performance Today" named her Debut Artist of the Year for her "remarkable intelligence, musicality, and sense of insight." She is, as of August 2006, the Assistant Professor of Violin at the University of Colorado at Boulder. About her coming of age as a musician, Ingolfsson says:See the full content of this document
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Playing It by Ear
"I've given up!" says Judith lngolfsson and shrugs.
My first question and Ingolfsson gives up - that doesn't bode well! It's understandable, however, Ingolfsson was born on Iceland to a Swiss mother and an Icelandic father. She was eight when the family moved to the States. So tryi...See the full content of this document
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