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Marijn Simons
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Concerto fabuleux: Concerto for percussion and
orchestra, 2002
Concerto for String Orchestra, 2007
Emilia Galotti: opera, 2014
Moriae Encomium: for orchestra, 2010
Secret Notes: Concerto no. 2 for violin and orchestra,
2002
String Quartet no. 4, 2010
Symphony no. 3: for orchestra, 2006
Symphony no. 4 “Ode to a Nightingale”: for baritone
and orchestra, 2011
Visiting The Angels: Concerto no. 2, for trombone and
orchestra, 2004
Awards
He has received the Philip Morris Arts Prize, Limburg Culture
Award, Wim Bary Perspective Award and his composition ‘The
City of the Soul‘ has been awarded Best Dutch Choral
Composition in 2001.
Selected compositionsof Marijn Simons
Education
He studied violin with Prof. Saschko Gawriloff, composition with
Daan Manneke and James MacMillan and conducting with Ed
Spanjaard, Jean- Bernard Pommier and Prof. Kenneth Kiesler.
Career
Marijn Simons is Conductor and Artistic Director of the Simons
Ensemble. Since 2012 he is Assistant Conductor at the
Opernfestspiele in Heidenheim. During the 2013 edition of the
Opernfestspiele Heidenheim Simons was Artistic Director of the
bi-annual Zeitgenossen festival.
Simons has conducted amongst others the Stuttgart
Philharmonic, Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, Aachen
Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Symphony Orchestra,
Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie (Koblenz),
Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie (Konstanz), Cappella Aquileia
(Heidenheim), Audite Nova Ensemble (Heidenheim), St.
Petersburg Chamber Orchestra, Yekaterinburg Chamber
Orchestra, Mineralnye Vody Philharmonic, State Philharmonic
Orchestra of Sibiu, Limburg Symphony Orchestra, Nieuw
Amsterdams Peil, the Simons Ensemble, the Czech Philharmonic
Choir Brno and the New Music Ensemble Aachen. With the
Kharkiv Philharmonic Simons conducted the first performance in
the Ukraine of Mahler’s Symphony no. 1 including the symphonic
movement Blumine.
Simons has also performed worldwide as a violinist. Highlights
from his solo career include the world première of Villa-Lobos’s
violin concerto Fantasia de Movimentos Mixtos with the National
Symphony Orchestra of Mexico conducted by Enrique Diemecke,
the Italian première of Milhaud’s 2nd violin concerto with the
Orquesta Sinfónica Siciliana and the Dutch première of
MacMillan’s violin concerto A Deep but Dazzling Darkness with
the Radio Chamber Orchestra conducted by the composer.
Simons also played as a Concert Master with several German
orchestras including the Aachen Symphony Orchestra, WDR
Radio Orchestra Cologne, Nuremberg State Philharmonic and at
the Deutsche Oper am Rhein with the Düsseldorf Symphony
Orchestra and the Duisburg Philharmonic.
Compositions Simons’ compositions have been commissioned and performed
by such conductors and soloists as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Marin
Alsop, Peter Eötvös, James MacMillan, Marcus Bosch, Christian
Lindberg, Evelyn Glennie, Dorothee Oberlinger and by orchestras
and ensembles such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cabrillo
Festival Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, The Hague
Philharmonic, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Aachen
Symphony Orchestra, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Vietnam
National Symphony Orchestra, Cuarteto Latinoamericano,
Tambuco Percussion Ensemble, Amsterdam Sinfonietta and the
12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic.
Simons was Composer-in-Residence at the Orlando Festival, Delft
Chamber Music Festival, Cabrillo Festival and the Zeitgenossen
festival. His compositions have been performed at concert venues
such as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus Dortmund,
Cologne Philharmonic Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los
Angeles), National Centre for the Arts (Mexico City) and the Hanoi
Opera House.
October 2014 saw the world première of his first opera ‘Emilia
Galotti‘ commissioned by the Koblenz Theatre.
Marijn Simonswas born in The Netherlands on December 25, 1982.
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