In addition to her work in Seattle, she has served as concertmaster for the New York Collegium under Andrew Parrott and held the same position for the prestigious Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra. She has served as guest director and soloist with many other prominent period-instrument groups from Los Angeles to Montreal. Among the most-recorded baroque violinists of her generation, Matthews has won international critical acclaim for a discography which ranges from the earliest solo violin repertoire through the great Sonatas and Partitas of J.S. Bach. Of the latter recording, the critic for American Record Guide writes "this superb recording is my top recommendation for this music... on either modern or period instruments."

Ingrid Matthews has served on the faculties of the University of Toronto, the University of Washington, Indiana University, the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, the International Baroque Institute at Longy and Amherst Early Music. She is a graduate of Indiana University, where she studied with Josef Gingold and Stanley Ritchie.

Byron Schenkman is founding pianist of the Mira Trio, with violinist Gabriela Diaz and cellist Alexei Gonzales. Previously artistic director of the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, he received the Erwin Bodky Award for "outstanding achievement" by the Cambridge Society for Early Music in 1999. Since 2001 he has been performing as a modern pianist, including solo recitals in Boston, Peterborough, Seattle, Vancouver, Winston-Salem, and on a Chilean tour sponsored by Partners of the Americas. He has also appeared as guest pianist with the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston, the Daedalus Quartet, the Northwest Sinfonietta, and Philharmonia Northwest. Highlights of the upcoming season include his New York solo recital debut at the Frick Collection, a program of piano solos and trios by Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn at the Library of Congress, and a Mendelssohn concerto with Philharmonia Northwest in Seattle.

In addition to his love of performing, Schenkman greatly enjoys teaching about music. His masterclasses on 18th-century performance, informal lecture-recitals, and lively pre-concert talks are always enthusiastically received. In 2006 Schenkman was voted "Best Classical Instrumentalist" by the readers of the Seattle Weekly. His CD of Haydn Piano Sonatas has been acclaimed for its "elegance, wit, and refinement" (American Record Guide), "imaginative, cleanly articulated form" (Seattle Times), and "astonishing sense of humor" (All Music Guide).

Schenkman is a graduate of the New England Conservatory and received the Master of Music degree with honors in performance from the Indiana University School of Music.

CD1-JS Bach-Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord

CD2-JS Bach-Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord