A virtuoso with innate talent and boundless imagination, Roman Simovic has performed on some of the world’s most prestigious stages, including Carnegie Hall, the Bolshoi Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Mariinsky Theatre, Barbican Hall, Victoria Hall, Rudolfinum, Grieg Hall, and the Seoul Arts Center. He has received recognition in major international competitions such as the Rodolfo Lipizer Prize (1st Prize and 12 Audience Prizes), Sion-Valais, Yampolsky Competition, and the Wieniawski Competition, establishing himself as one of the most authoritative violinists of his generation.
As a soloist, he has performed with leading orchestras worldwide, including the London Symphony Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre, Teatro Regio di Torino, Camerata Salzburg, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, and the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, collaborating with renowned conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Antonio Pappano, Daniel Harding, Gianandrea Noseda, Kristian Järvi, Sir Simon Rattle, Pablo Heras-Casado, and Nikolaj Znaider, among others.
He has participated in numerous international festivals – Verbier, White Nights, Trans-Siberian Art Festival, Gergiev Easter Festival, Dubrovnik, Sion, Bergen, Granada, Portogruaro – performing with artists of the caliber of Leonidas Kavakos, Yuja Wang, Gautier Capuçon, Mischa Maisky, Shlomo Mintz, François Leleux, Itamar Golan, Simon Trpčeski, Janine Jansen, Julian Rachlin, Pablo Ferrández, Vadim Repin, Evgeny Kissin, Antoine Tamestit, Antonio Meneses, and Nikolai Lugansky.
A guest professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he is also a highly regarded educator, regularly invited to give masterclasses in Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Australia. Since 2010, he has served as concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra.
He has recorded four CDs for the LSO Live label, leading the LSO Strings, as well as the complete Paganini Caprices. In 2024, his new CD featuring violin concertos by Rózsa and Bartók, conducted by Sir Simon Rattle and Kevin John Edusei, was released. In 2025, an album dedicated to Eugène Ysaÿe’s Six Sonatas for Solo Violin is scheduled for release.
In 2024, he toured with the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, opened the Musikfest Berlin at the Philharmonie, and played at major festivals in Edinburgh, Granada, Tübingen, and São Paulo. In the 2025/26 season, he will appear with, among others, the Buenos Aires Philharmonic (Teatro Colón), Magdeburg Philharmonic, Athens State Orchestra, Staatskapelle Weimar, Orchestre International de Genève, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra.
Roman Simovic plays an exceptional 1709 Antonio Stradivari violin, generously entrusted to him by Jonathan Moulds.