One of the leading exponents of the recorder in the United States, Judith Linsenberg has been hailed for her “virtuosity” (Washington Post), “expressivity” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), "fearless playing" (SF Classical Voice), and combination of “masterly control with risk-taking spontaneity” (Early Music).  She has performed extensively throughout the US and Europe, including solo appearances at the Hollywood Bowl and Lincoln Center; and has been featured with such leading American ensembles as the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Opera Center, the Los Angeles Opera, the LA Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, the Portland, Seattle, and Los Angeles Baroque Orchestras, the Bach Festival of Philadelphia, the Oregon and Carmel Bach Festivals, Musica Sacra of New York, Musica Angelica of Los Angeles, and others. She is the winner of national performance awards, and has premiered several pieces for the recorder, including a new work commissioned by her and, in March 2002 in Los Angeles, the US premiere of Vivaldi's recorder concerto, RV 312R. 

Ms. Linsenberg is the director of the Baroque ensemble, Musica Pacifica, whose performances and seven recordings on the Virgin Classics and Dorian labels have received international acclaim--all have been chosen as CD of the Month by the German early music journal Toccata/Alte Musik Aktuell, and two of them have received other major awards: their Telemann CD, described by Early Music America Magazine as "superbly elegant . . . exemplifying the finest in historical performance today," won Chamber Music America and WQXR's 2003 Record Award honoring the best chamber music recordings of the year.  Their Mancini recording was cited as a "Noteworthy Disc" in the 2000 International Vivaldi Awards for Italian Early Music in Venice. Ms. Linsenberg has also recorded for harmonia mundi usa, Koch International, Reference Recordings, Musical Heritage Society, and Hännsler Classics.  A Fulbright scholar to Austria, Judith Linsenberg was awarded the Soloist Diploma with Highest Honors from the Vienna Academy of Music.  Her teachers have included Frans Brüggen, Marion Verbruggen, Walter van Hauwe, and Hans Maria Kneihs. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University, holds a doctorate in early music from Stanford University, and has been a visiting professor at the Vienna Conservatory and Indiana University's Early Music Institute in Bloomington.  She has taught at Stanford, the San Francisco Conservatory, and at early music workshops throughout the United States.