Simone Lamsma Violin

Dutch violinist Simone Lamsma is rapidly establishing herself as one of the world’s top violinists, a much sought after soloist and recitalist performing with leading orchestras and conductors worldwide. In the 2009/10 season, engagement highlights in Europe included performances with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. In the USA, she made her debut with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra and performed for the second time with the Dallas Symphony. She also performed recitals in the Netherlands and for the prestigious Rio de Janeiro Sala Cecilia series with Robert Kulek and Valentina Lisitsa as chamber music partners.

Future engagements include debuts with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestra Suisse Romande, Orchestre Nationale de France, Lucerne Symphony, St Louis Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic and the Sao Paolo Symphony. Return invitations include the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony, Dallas Symphony and the Rotterdam Philharmonic. She will also be performing as a recitalist in the Main Hall of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in May 2011 with live radio broadcast.

Other highlights included national broadcasts on Dutch television of her performance featuring Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No.1 with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic conducted by Jaap van Zweden as well as a 40-minute documentary about Ms Lamsma’s life as a musician produced by NPS (Dutch national television). In both 2007 and 2010 she was nominated for a Dutch VSCD Classical Music Prize in the category ‘New Generation Musicians’. Ms Lamsma’s debut recital disc for the Naxos label, featuring works by Edward Elgar, was released to great critical acclaim and her second disc, a recording of violin concertos by Louis Spohr, was similarly well-received. Ms Lamsma plays the “ex Chanot-Chardon” Stradivarius (labelled Cremona 1718), on generous loan to her by an anonymous benefactor.

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