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Simone Lamsma
Simone Lamsma (Leeuwarden, 1985) is a Dutch violinist.
Lamsma began playing the violin when she was five years old. At age nine, she became a student of Davina van Wely. She moved to the United Kingdom when she was eleven to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School with Hu Kun. She continued studying with him until 2003 at the Royal Academy of Music in London. From 2004 onwards, she was a student of Maurice Hasson. As the youngest student ever, she was admitted to the Bachelor of Music programme at the Royal Academy of Music, receiving a full scholarship. She graduated at nineteen with first-class honours and received the HRH Princess Alice's Prize for 'exemplary studentship', the Louise Child Prize for the highest achievement of Bachelor of Music graduates, and the Roth Prize for the best result in a violin examination. Lamsma made her solo debut at age fourteen with a performance of Paganini's first violin concerto with the Noord Nederlands Orkest conducted by Takuo Yuasa.
Since then she has performed as a soloist and in recitals throughout the world. She has worked with conductors Martyn Brabbins, Sir Andrew Davis, Eri Klas, Sir Neville Marriner, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Jac van Steen, Michel Tabachnik and Jaap van Zweden.
She has performed with the Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Academy of St.
Lamsma began playing the violin when she was five years old. At age nine, she became a student of Davina van Wely. She moved to the United Kingdom when she was eleven to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School with Hu Kun. She continued studying with him until 2003 at the Royal Academy of Music in London. From 2004 onwards, she was a student of Maurice Hasson. As the youngest student ever, she was admitted to the Bachelor of Music programme at the Royal Academy of Music, receiving a full scholarship. She graduated at nineteen with first-class honours and received the HRH Princess Alice's Prize for 'exemplary studentship', the Louise Child Prize for the highest achievement of Bachelor of Music graduates, and the Roth Prize for the best result in a violin examination. Lamsma made her solo debut at age fourteen with a performance of Paganini's first violin concerto with the Noord Nederlands Orkest conducted by Takuo Yuasa.
Since then she has performed as a soloist and in recitals throughout the world. She has worked with conductors Martyn Brabbins, Sir Andrew Davis, Eri Klas, Sir Neville Marriner, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Jac van Steen, Michel Tabachnik and Jaap van Zweden.
She has performed with the Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Academy of St.
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