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Score example

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.