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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.

On September 16 and 17 Simone Lamsma will be giving 3 performances of Magnus Lindberg’s Violin Concerto with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra under conductor Dima Slobodeniouk, replacing the originally scheduled soloist Pekka Kuusisto.

The concerts will take place in the Ordway Center in Saint Paul, US, as follows:
September 16, 2011 – 10:30 AM
September 16, 2011 – 08:00 PM
September 17, 2011 – 08:00 PM

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Simone Lamsma has been appointed Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in London, and was awarded with an ARAM certificate on Monday 9 May 2011 during a special celebration. This honour is offered to past students of the Academy who have distinguished themselves in the music profession and made a significant contribution to their particular field.

Simone has been invited to perform during this year’s Queens Day Concert at Palace Noordeinde in The Hague. Jaap van Zweden will conduct the Radio Chamber Orchestra with Simone Lamsma as a soloist. On the programme are two works: the famous Violin Concerto in E minor by Felix Mendelssohn Bartoldy and Stravinsky’s Pulcinella.

The concert will take place in the presence of HMH Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands to celebrate the Queen’s birthday, and will be broadcast on national Dutch Television on Queens Day 30 April 2011.

On 27 January 2011, Simone will be awarded with the ‘Golden Violin’ Prize, a triennal prize given to a classical artist who has made outstanding contributions to the classical music scene of the Northern Netherlands. The prize will be officially awarded during a concert with the Northern Dutch Orchestra in Groningen, Netherlands, where Simone will be performing Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto.

Like last Saturday evening in Groningen, the IJ-salon concert for next Saturday in Amsterdam will include works by Locatelli, Feldman and Spohr. Special guest Emanuel Ax will join in to play Dvořák’s Quintet with Simone and members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Last Saturday, during a concert in the Oosterpoort in Groningen (Netherlands), Simone was awarded with the National Dutch VSCD Classical Music Prize in the category ‘New Generation Musicians’. The prize is awarded by Association of Dutch Theaters and Concert Halls to artists who have made remarkable and valuable contributions to the Dutch classical music scene.

Exactly 100 years since the premiere of the work on 10 November 1910, given by Fritz Kreisler, Simone will perform the Elgar Violin Concerto in a special concert with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under David Hill at the Light House in Poole, UK.

The concert will be recorded by BBC Radio 3 for broadcast at a later date.

On 18 April Simone Lamsma gave her Brazilian recital debut with pianist Valentina Lisitsa at very short notice, replacing Vadim Repin and Itamar Golan, who were the originally scheduled artists. The recital took place in the prestigious Sala Cecilia Mereiles in Rio de Janeiro, and received an overwhelming response from the audience.

In 2011 Simone will be returning to Brazil to perform in São Paulo with the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra under Yan Pascal Tortelier.