A violinist of exceptional artistry and innate musicality, Roman Simović has performed on some of the world’s most prestigious stages, including Carnegie Hall, the Bolshoi Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, the Mariinsky Theatre, Barbican Hall, Victoria Hall, Rudolfinum, Grieg Hall, and the Seoul Arts Center. He has received recognition at major international competitions, including the Rodolfo Lipizer Prize (1st Prize and 12 Audience Prizes), Sion-Valais, the Yampolsky Competition, and the Wieniawski Competition.
As a soloist, he has performed with leading orchestras worldwide, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, Camerata Salzburg, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra (OSESP), and the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, collaborating with conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Antonio Pappano, Daniel Harding, Gianandrea Noseda, Kristjan Järvi, Sir Simon Rattle, Pablo Heras-Casado, and Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, among others.
He regularly appears at international festivals including the Verbier Festival, the White Nights Festival in St Petersburg, Vadim Repin’s Trans-Siberian Art Festival, the Easter Festival in Moscow, the Dubrovnik Summer Festival, the Sion Festival, the Bergen International Festival, the Granada International Festival of Music and Dance, and the Portogruaro Festival, collaborating with artists such as Leonidas Kavakos, Yuja Wang, Gautier Capuçon, Mischa Maisky, Shlomo Mintz, François Leleux, Itamar Golan, Janine Jansen, Julian Rachlin, Pablo Ferrández, Vadim Repin, Evgeny Kissin, and Nikolai Lugansky.
Roman Simović is Visiting Professor of Violin at the Royal Academy of Music in London and has extensive experience as an educator, regularly giving masterclasses in Europe, Asia, the Americas, and Australia. Since 2010, he has served as Leader (Concertmaster) of the London Symphony Orchestra.
His extensive discography includes four recordings leading the London Symphony Orchestra String Ensemble for the LSO Live label, as well as the complete Paganini Caprices for solo violin. In 2024, LSO Live released his recording of Miklós Rózsa’s Violin Concerto and Béla Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 2, with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle and Kevin John Edusei. In 2026, LSO Live released his latest recording featuring Eugène Ysaÿe’s Six Sonatas for Solo Violin.
During the 2025/26 season, Roman Simović performed with, among others, the Buenos Aires Philharmonic at the Teatro Colón, the Magdeburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Athens State Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Orchestre International de Genève, the Orquestra Filarmônica de Minas Gerais, the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra.
Roman Simović plays a 1709 Antonio Stradivari violin generously loaned to him by Jonathan Moulds.