Simović, Roman

The brilliant virtuosity and innate musicality of Roman Simović, driven by boundless imagination, have taken him to all continents and to many of the world’s leading concert halls, including Carnegie Hall in New York, the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, the Mariinsky Concert Hall in Saint Petersburg, the Grand Opera House in Tel Aviv, Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Rudolfinum in Prague, the Barbican Centre in London, the Seoul Arts Center, Grieg Hall in Bergen, and many others.

Roman Simović is a prizewinner of numerous international competitions. Among the most distinguished are the Rodolfo Lipizer International Violin Competition (Italy), where he won First Prize and twelve audience awards, and the Sion-Valais Competition (Switzerland). He has also received awards at the Yampolsky Violin Competition in Russia and the Henryk Wieniawski International Violin Competition in Poland, placing him among the most prominent violinists of his generation.

As a soloist, he has performed with leading orchestras worldwide, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, the Orchestra of Teatro Regio Torino, Symphony Nova Scotia (Canada), the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra (Hungary), Camerata Bern (Switzerland), Camerata Salzburg (Austria), the CRR Symphony Orchestra (Turkey), and the philharmonic orchestras of Poznań, Prague, and North Brabant, among many others. He has collaborated with distinguished conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Antonio Pappano, Daniel Harding, Gianandrea Noseda, Sir Simon Rattle, Kristjan Järvi, Jiří Bělohlávek, Pablo Heras-Casado, and Nikolaj Znaider.

Roman Simović is regularly invited to perform at major international festivals, including the Verbier Festival (Switzerland), the Stars of the White Nights Festival in Saint Petersburg, the Trans-Siberian Art Festival, the Moscow Easter Festival, the Dubrovnik Summer Festival, KotorArt (Montenegro), BEMUS and NOMUS (Serbia), the Sion-Valais Festival, the Bergen International Festival (Norway), the Moscow Winter Festival, the Portogruaro Festival (Italy), and the Granada International Festival of Music and Dance (Spain). He has collaborated with renowned artists such as Leonidas Kavakos, Yuja Wang, Tabea Zimmermann, Mischa Maisky, Shlomo Mintz, Itamar Golan, Simon Trpčeski, Janine Jansen, Julian Rachlin, and Vadim Repin.

He serves as Guest Professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, and the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, and has extensive pedagogical experience. He has given masterclasses in the United States, the United Kingdom, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Serbia, Montenegro, and Israel, where he also frequently appears in recital, as a soloist with orchestra, and in chamber ensembles.

His discography includes two releases on the LSO label, conducting the string ensemble of the London Symphony Orchestra; recordings for the Mariinsky label featuring the violin concertos of Tchaikovsky and Glazunov with Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra; and a recording of the complete Paganini Caprices for solo violin.

In 2024 and 2025, the London Symphony Orchestra released new recordings of Ysaÿe’s Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle, and Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto conducted by Kevin John Edusei.

Roman Simović has served as Concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra since 2010. He performs on a 1709 violin by Antonio Stradivari.

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