ARTIST PROFILE:
Simone Lamsma

Dutch violinist Simone Lamsma is respected by critics, peers and audiences as one of today’s most striking musical personalities.

Simone has been the guest of many of the world’s leading orchestras from New York to Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Sydney, Chicago, Amsterdam and many other places with such conductors as Jaap van Zweden, Antonio Pappano, Paavo Järvi, Gianandrea Noseda, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Louis Langrée, Gustavo Gimeno, Karina Canellakis, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Marc Albrecht, Stéphane Denève, Vassily Petrenko, Domingo Hindoyan, François-Xavier Roth, Edward Gardner, Kent Nagano, James Gaffigan.

In 2022 her most recent recording was released to great acclaim, featuring late works by Rautavaara with the Malmö Symphony and Robert Trevino for the Ondine label. Other recordings include Shostakovich and Gubaidulina with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic under James Gaffigan and Reinbert de Leeuw and a recital album with pianist Robert Kulek, both on Challenge Classics.

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.