Simone Lamsma

Born: Leeuwarden, the Netherlands
Education: Yehudi Menuhin School with Hu Kun; Royal Academy of Music in London with Maurice Hasson
Awards: International Violin Competition of Indianapolis (2006), Benjamin Britten International Violin Competition (2004); Oskar Back Violin Competition (2003)
Solo debut: as fourteen-year-old with the Northern Netherlands Orchestra in Paganini’s Violin Concerto
Soloist with: London Symphony Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Vienna Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic
Premieres: Violin Concertos by De Roo, Van der Aa and Wantenaar, Lost Landscapes by Rautavaara
Instrument: ‘Aurora ex-Foulis’-Stradivarius from 1703
Debut Rotterdam Philharmonic: 2009