Simone von Rahden

  • Born in Karlsruhe
  • Studies in viola with Prof. Wolfram Christ in Freiburg and with Prof. Tabea Zimmermann in Berlin; 2011: concert exam with distinction
  • Prizes and scholarships from national and international youth competitions; 2004: support from Claudio Abbado, who passed on a prize, awarded to him by the Kythera-Stiftung in Düsseldorf, to outstanding young musicians
  • chamber music concerts in many European countries, as well as Japan, the US, and Israel; currently maintains artistic partnerships with Lorenza Borrani, Matthew Truscott, Maia Cabeza, Luise Buchberger, Clara Andrada de la Calle, Alfredo and Cecilia Bernardini, Lorenzo Coppola, Alec Frank-Gemmill, Kristian Bezuidenhout, and the Amaryllis Quartett
  • Member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe since 2009 and of the Spira mirabilis project; member of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra since its founding by Claudio Abbado, and of the Orchestra Mozart Bologna
  • 2008/2009: Solo violist at the Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, as a guest with the Philharmonia Orchestra London, the Kammerakademie Potsdam, and the Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
  • A growing dedication for a number of years to historic performance practices; performances on the Baroque viola and the viola d'amore with the Dunedin Consort Edinburgh, the InternationalenBachakademie Stuttgart, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; solo violist since 2016
  • Soloist appearances with the Philharmonie Baden-Baden, “El Teatre Instrumental” Barcelona, the Philharmonie Südwestfalen, the English Haydn Orchestra, the Hamburger Camerata, and the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
  • Since 2014: instructor at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin, initially as an assistant to Tabea Zimmermann, and leading her own course beginning in 2015