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Hailed for her ​“brilliant… polished, expressive and intense” (Cleveland Plain Dealer) and ​“absolutely stunning” (Chicago Tribune) playing, Dutch violinist Simone Lamsma is respected by critics, peers and audiences as one of classical music’s most striking and captivating musical personalities.

With an extensive repertoire, Simone has been the guest of many of the world’s leading orchestras such as New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Dutch Radio Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Wiener Symphoniker, Tonkünstler Orchester, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Helsinki Philharmonic, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, MDR-Sinfonieorchester, National Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, Stavanger Symphony, Iceland Symphony, Antwerp Symphony, Finnish Radio Symphony, Les Siécles, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Belgian National, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, hr-Sinfonieorchester, Cincinnati Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, The Hallé, Melbourne Symphony, and Sydney Symphony.

Simone performs with eminent conductors such as Jaap van Zweden, Antonio Pappano, Paavo Järvi, Gianandrea Noseda, Tarmo Peltokoski, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Vladimir Jurowski, Rafael Payare, Louis Langrée, Gustavo Gimeno, Karina Canellakis, Jonathon Heyward, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Kazuki Yamada, Marc Albrecht, Stéphane Denève, Vassily Petrenko, Domingo Hindoyan, Michael Francis, Simone Young, François-Xavier Roth, Olari Elts, Fabien Gabel, Duncan Ward, Juraj Valcuha, John Storgårds, Omer Meir-Wellber, Edward Gardner, Kent Nagano, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, James Gaffigan, Sir Mark Elder, Daniel Raiskin, Edo de Waart, Andris Poga, Jun Märkl, Kevin John Edusei, Markus Stenz, Antony Hermus, Jaime Martin, Case Scaglione, Alexander Shelley, Jader Bignamini, Mark Wigglesworth, Asher Fisch and Petr Popelka.

In the 2025/26 season, Simone will return, among several engagements, to the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal with Rafael Payare, Seoul Philharmonic with Jaap van Zweden, Rotterdam Philharmonic with Tarmo Peltokoski, Sydney Symphony with Simone Young, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai with Alpesh Chauhan, Baltimore Symphony with Jonathon Heyward, Antwerp Symphony at the Enescu Festival with Emmanuel Tjeknavorian, BBC Philharmonic with John Storgårds, Liverpool Philharmonic with Domingo Hindoyan and debut with Singapore Symphony under Hannu Lintu, Seattle Symphony Orchestra under Sunny Xia and Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana under Pierre Bleuse. She will also play recitals with pianist Jonathan Fournel at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall and Heidelberger Frühling Festival. In 2025 Simone premiered a work by leading Dutch composer Joey Roukens at the Tivoli Vredenbrug Utrecht and a piece by Danish composer Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen co-commissioned by the Danish National Symphony and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras.

Recent recordings include the world premiere of Agerfeldt Olesen’s Violin Concerto with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Otto Tausk on DaCapo. A 2022 Ondine release with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra under Robert Treviño features works by Rautavaara.

Other releases include Sibelius with the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France and Case Scaglione, “Pärt über Bach” with Amsterdam Sinfonietta and Candida Thompson, and Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto paired with Gubaidulina’s “In Tempus Praesens” with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra under Reinbert de Leeuw and James Gaffigan. A recital album with pianist Robert Kulek on the same label features works by Mendelssohn, Janáček, and Schuman.

In 2019, Simone was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in London, an honour limited to 300 former Academy students, and awarded to those musicians who have distinguished themselves within the profession.

Simone Lamsma plays the 1703 ​‘Aurora ex-Foulis’ Stradivarius, on generous loan to her by a benefactor.

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