Simone Lamsma, violin
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, Vasily 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 2026/27 season, she makes her highly anticipated BBC Proms debut with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic under Andrew Manze and with the NDR Elbphilharmonieorchester under Alan Gilbert at the Elbphilharmonie and at the closing concert of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival. She will return to Netherlands Radio Philharmonic under Stéphane Denève, Brussels Philharmonic under Kristian Sallinen, San Francisco Symphony under David Danzmayr, Warsaw Philharmonic under Markus Stenz, Milwaukee Symphony under Andris Poga, and Orchestre National de Bordeaux-Aquitaine under Michael Francis. She will also make her debuts with Atlanta Symphony under Ben Glassberg, Singapore Symphony under Hannu Lintu and with Sinfonia Lahti under Markus Stenz. In summer 2026, she performed with The Cleveland Orchestra under Tabita Berglund at the Blossom Festival, as well as with the Lincoln Center Festival Orchestra in New York under Chloé van Soeterstède.
In 2025 Simone premiered 2 violin concertos written for her, ‘Out of the Deep’ by leading Dutch composer Joey Roukens at Tivoli Vredenburg Utrecht with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and a work by Danish composer Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen co-commissioned by the Danish National Symphony and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras.
Recent recordings include an Ondine release with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra under Robert Treviño featuring works by Rautavaara, as well as the world premiere of Agerfeldt Olesen’s Violin Concerto with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Otto Tausk on DaCapo. 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. She also recorded a recital album with pianist Robert Kulek featuring works by Mendelssohn, Janáček, and Schumann.
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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