ROMAN SIMOVIC, Violinist

Roman Simovic’s brilliant virtuosity and seemingly-inborn musicality, fuelled by a limitless imagination, has taken him throughout all continents performing on many of world’s leading stages with the orchestras such as London Symphony Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra, Teatro Regio Torino, Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra (Hungary), Camerata Bern (Switzerland), Camerata Salzburg (Austria), Prague Philharmonia, RTE Madrid, OSESP Sao Paolo, Academy St. Martin in the Fields… with conductors like: Valery Gergiev, Antonio Pappano, Daniel Harding, Gianandrea Noseda, Kristian Jarvi, Sir Simon Rattle, Jiri Belohlavek, Pablo Heras Casado, Nikolai Znaider, Thomas Søndergård amongst others.

A sought-after artist, Roman Simovic has been invited and continues to perform at various distinguished festivals such as the Verbier Festival, White Nights Festival St. Petersburg, Vadim Repin’s Trans-Siberian Art Festival, Easter Festival Valery Gergiev Moscow, Dubrovnik Summer Festival in Croatia, “Sion Valais” Switzerland, Norway’s Bergen Festival, “Moscow Winter” Festival in Russia, Portogruaro Festival in Italy, “Granada Music Festival” in Spain, collaborating with such renowned artists as Leonidas Kavakos, Yuja Wang, Gautie Capuson, Misha Maisky, Schlomo Mintz, Francois Leleux, Itamar Golan, Simon Trpceski, Janine Jansen, Julian Rachlin, Pablo Fernandez, Vadim Repin, Evgeny Kissin, Antoine Tamestit, Antonio Meneses, Nikolai Lugansky, Pablo Ferrandez..

Roman holds a visiting professor of violin position at the Royal Academy of Music in London and has an extensive experience as an educator. Roman has presented masterclasses in the US, UK, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Serbia, Montenegro, Israel, as well as at the Verbier Festival where he is frequently performing as a soloist with orchestra, as chamber musician and recitalist.

Roman Simovic has released comprehensive list of recordings, most notable are four CDs directing LSO string orchestra for the LSO live label as well as a CD of complete Paganini caprices for violin solo. In November 2024, LSO live label released new CD with Roman Simovic as soloist, performing Concerto for violin and orchestra by Miklos Rozsa as well as Béla Bartók (Violin concerto no. 2), accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra and conducted by maestro Sir Simon Rattle and Kevin John Edusei. In August 2026 LSO Live Label released Roman’s new CD performing Eugene Ysaye’s 6 sonatas for violin solo.

In 2025/2026 season Roman will perform with La Filarmonica de Buenos Aires in teatro Colon, Magdeburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, Athens State Orchestra, L’Orchestre International de Geneve, Opera National de Lorraine, Weimar Staatskapelle, Orquestra Filarmonica de Minas Gerais, Orquestra Sinfonica de Estado do Sao Paulo as well as Japan tour with Oji Hall, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and Nagoya Philharmonic orchestra, to name a few.

Roman is serving as a leader of the London Symphony Orchestra since 2010.

Roman Simovic plays a 1709 Antonio Stradivariviolin which was generously given to him on loan from Jonathan Moulds.