ROMAN SIMOVIC
Currently serving as concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra, Montenegrin Roman Simovic has been recommended by the celebrated violinist Shlomo Mintz “as an extremely bright talent with very fine potential and capabilities. I predict that this fine young man will have an international career if given the right advice and the right direction.”
Roman Simovic was a First-Prize-winner at the 2005 Rodolfo Lipizer International Violin Competition where he was additionally awarded twelve special prizes for the best performing. Further honours include top awards at the Sion-Valais International Violin Competition (Switzerland), the International Yampolsky Violin Competition (Russia) and the Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition (Poland), placing him among the foremost violinists of his generation.
His brilliant virtuosity and striking inborn musicality has taken him throughout Eastern and Western Europe, Russia, Israel, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey, Canada, the United States and Latin America, performing on many of the world’s most renowned stages including the Bolshoi Theatre and the Rachmaninov Hall in Moscow, the Grand Opera House in Tel Aviv, the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Prague National Theatre, the Giuseppe Verdi Theatre in Trieste, the Arts Centre in Seoul and the Grieg Hall in Bergen.
As a soloist, Simovic has appeared with the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, the Camerata Bern, the Bohemian Symphony Orchestra, the Moskovia Chamber Orchestra, the Prague Philharmonic, the Poznan Radio and Television Philharmonic, the Rijeka Opera Symphony Orchestra, the Romanian Philharmonic, the Seoul Simfonietta and the Royal Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra.
Roman Simovic has been a guest at various distinguished festivals such as the Sion-Valais Festival in Switzerland, the Bergen Festival, the Moscow Winter Festival, the Dubrovnik Summer Festival, the Kotor Art Festival in Montenegro, the BEMUS and NOMUS Festivals in Serbia as well as the Symphonia Sansepolcro and the Portogruaro Festivals in Italy where he performed with renowned artists such as Shlomo Mintz, Francois Leleux, Janine Jensen, Julian Rachlin, Itamar Golan, Rohan de Silva, Marina Yashwili and Edward Grach.
Roman Simovic is a founding member of the Rubicon String Quartet and still continues recording and touring with this particular group. Furthermore he has given masters classes in the United States of America, South Korea, Serbia and Montenegro. In 2011 he toured several European cultural capitals as well as the USA, Canada and South Africa. More recently he performed as a soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Antonio Pappano in Dublin and with the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev in St. Petersburg.
“I consider Roman Simovic as an extremely bright talent with very fine potential and capabilities. I predict that this fine young man will have an international career if given the right advice and the right direction.”
SHLOMO MINTZ
“There are moments of endless joy when a listener sails by the deepest and the most sensitive waves of Roman’s magnificent playing. The gloss of his uncovered love for music, simply conquer the audience throughout the world. He owns the ability to embrace the transcendent part of his personality along with the most passionate and energetic version of genuine musicianship put it all together and transmits it via sound. For the brightest future, I sincerely recommend this perspective violinist to be anywhere where he thinks his happiness is.”
MARINA YASHWILI
Tchaikovsky State Conservatory Moscow
“I would love to attract your attention to young violinist Roman Simovic. Roman is one of the most significant artists, not only from the tiny newly independent state of Montenegro, but also from the whole region of the Balkans. This description is confirmed through his concerts and competition successes, as well as from his world-wide high popularity among audiences!”
RATIMIR MARTINOVIC
Novi Sad University
President, European Piano Teachers Association Montenegro
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