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Coming week on 27, 28 and 29 September 2013 Simone will be returning to the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra to perform Martinu’s Second Violin Concerto under Jiří Bělohlávek.

Concerts will take place in de Doelen Rotterdam (27 and 29 September) and at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam (26 September).
The concert in Amsterdam is part of the ‘ZaterdagMatinee’ concert series, where Simone is a frequent soloist, returning for the 5th time. This concert will be broadcast live on Saturday 26 September at 14.15 via the following link.

On 19 April 2013 Simone will perform Beethoven Violin Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins on only a few days notice, replacing the originally scheduled soloist.
The concert will take place at 19.30 (UK time) at the Barbican in London and will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.

On 13 March from 19.00 Simone’s live performance of the Korngold violin concerto with Edo de Waart and the Royal Flemish Philharmonic will be broadcast on Belgian classical radio station Klara. The concert took place on 22 February in Gent.

To listen via Klara’s website please click here

Simone will perform Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Sir Neville Marriner at less than 24 hours notice!

Concert details:

Thursday 13 December 20.15
Netherlands, Utrecht, Vredenburg Leidsche Rijn

Saturday 15 December 20.15
Netherlands, Eindhoven, Muziekcentrum Frits Philips

This week Simone will be performing at the Verbier Festival at Schloss Elmau, collaborating with some wonderful artists during 3 chamber music concerts. Concerts are on 26, 28 and 30 November, with works by Mozart, Glinka, Mendelssohn and Dvořák.

On Friday 6 July 2012 Simone will perform Brahms’ Violin Concerto with the Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor James Gaffigan at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. The concert will be broadcast live on Dutch classical music station Radio 4 and is part of the ‘Robeco Zomerconcerten 2012’.

Coming week Simone will make her Australian debut performing the Mendelssohn Concerto in E minor with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra under Oleg Caetani, replacing the originally scheduled soloist. Performances will take place on 23 and 24 March 2012 at 7.30 at Perth Concert Hall.

The concert on 22 October 2011 (given during the ‘ZaterdagMatinee’ concert series at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam) in which Simone gave the Dutch premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina’s Second Violin Concerto ‘In Tempus Praesens’ with the Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra under Reinbert de Leeuw, has been chosen by the public as best concert of 2011 in the category ‘Contemporary Music’.

On Thursday 12, Friday 13 and Saturday 14 January 2012 Simone will make her debut with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Cornelius Meister at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. She will perform Walton’s Violin Concerto, which will be a Concertgebouw Orchestra premiere. For concert details please see the ‘Concerts’ page.

Wishing you all a very happy and healthy New Year!

This message is also to thank you so so much for all the kind messages I received over the past year, I greatly appreciate you taking the time to write to me.

Looking forward to a great 2012 full of music!

Warmest wishes,

Simone

On 22 December Simone will perform during a special event for the Papageno Foundation, a Foundation set up by Aaltje and Jaap van Zweden which helps children with autism through specially developed programmes and therapies full of music.

The concert, of which all proceeds will go to the Papageno Foundation, is the launch of the broadening of the Foundation’s work in Friesland, in the north of the Netherlands, and will take place in ‘De Lawei’ in Drachten. As part of the concert with the Frisian Youth Orchestra, Simone will perform the first movement of Mozart’s 4th Violin Concerto under conductor Jaap van Zweden.

On 13 October 2011 Simone will make her Paris concerto debut with the Orchestre National de France under the baton of Maestro Jaap van Zweden, performing Bernstein’s Serenade at the Théâtre du Châtelet. The concert will start at 20.00 and will be broadcast live.

On Saturday 22 October Simone Lamsma gave, in the presence of the composer, the Dutch premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina’s Second Violin Concerto ‘In tempus praesens’ with the Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra under Reinbert de Leeuw. The concert took place during the prestigious ‘ZaterdagMatinee’ concert series at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and was part of a festival to celebrate Sofia Gubaidulina’s 80th birthday.

Simone had the honour of meeting and collaborating with Sofia Gubaidulina on the work, the composer attending both rehearsal and concert.

Sofia Gubaidulina’s ‘In tempus praesens’ was received with enormous enthusiasm from the audience.