Simone Lamsma

Dutch violinist Simone Lamsma is celebrated for her ‘brilliant… polished, expressive and intense’ (Cleveland Plain Dealer) and ‘absolutely stunning’ (Chicago Tribune) performances. She is widely regarded by critics, colleagues, and audiences as one of the most captivating musical personalities of her generation.

Simone Lamsma has appeared with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Dutch Radio Philharmonic, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Wiener Symphoniker, Sydney Symphony, and many more. She regularly collaborates with eminent conductors such as Jaap van Zweden, Antonio Pappano, Paavo Järvi, Gianandrea Noseda, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Fabio Luisi, Vladimir Jurowski, Karina Canellakis, and Michael Francis.

Highlights of recent seasons include recitals at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall, and Heidelberger Frühling, as well as premieres of works by leading Dutch composer Joey Roukens and Danish composer Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen. Her recordings have been highly praised and include late works by Rautavaara with the Malmö Symphony under Robert Trevino, Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto and Gubaidulina’s In Tempus Praesens with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, and a recital album of works by Mendelssohn, Janáček, and Schumann with pianist Robert Kulek.

In 2019, Simone Lamsma was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in London, an honour limited to 300 former students who have distinguished themselves in the profession. She plays the 1703 ‘Aurora ex-Foulis’ Stradivarius, generously loaned to her by a benefactor.