Simone Lamsma

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, Lamsma has been the guest of many of the world’s leading orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Les Siécles, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and Sydney Symphony, among others. She performs with eminent conductors such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Rafael Payare, Karina Canellakis, Kazuki Yamada, Stéphane Denève, Simone Young, and Petr Popelka.

In the 2025–26 season, Lamsma returned to the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, and debuted with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, and Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana. She also played recitals with pianist Jonathan Fournel at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall, and Heidelberger Frühling Festival. In 2025, Lamsma premiered a work by leading Dutch composer Joey Roukens at the Tivoli Vredenbrug Utrecht as well as a piece by Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen.

Recent recordings include the world premiere of Agerfeldt Olesen’s Violin Concerto with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Otto Tausk on DaCapo. A 2022 Ondine release with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra under Robert Treviño features works by Rautavaara. Other releases include Sibelius with the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France and Case Scaglione, Pärt über Bach with the 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. A recital album with pianist Robert Kulek on the same label features works by Mendelssohn, Janáček, and R. Schumann.

In 2019, Lamsma was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in London, an honor limited to 300 former Academy students, and awarded to those musicians who have distinguished themselves within the profession.

Lamsma plays the 1703 “Aurora ex-Foulis” Stradivarius, on generous loan to her by a benefactor.