Sweet Music

When Judith Ingolfsson was 10, the great violinist Josef Gingold autographed one of his record albums for her, predicting a fine career for the budding artist. On Saturday in New York City, the late Gingold’s Stradivarius violin was handed to the now 25-year-old winner of the Indianapolis violin competition associated with Gingold. Ingolfsson, a native of Iceland who lives in Cleveland, will make her Carnegie Hall debut next year and can play the 1683 instrument until it is passed on to the next winner in three years. “It has an unbelievable sound, very warm, expansive,” the beaming musician said of the instrument worth up to $2 million and one of only several dozen Stradivarius violins that have survived in concert-playing shape.