b'Guest ArtistViolinist SIMONE PORTER is an emerging artist of impassioned energy, interpretive integrity, and vibrant communication. Recently she has debuted with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and with a number of renowned conductors including Stphane Denve, Gustavo Dudamel, and Yannick Nzet-Sguin. She has toured the US extensively including appearances with the Santa Rosa, Amarillo, Pasadena, Fairfax, and Midland Symphonies, Rochester Philharmonic, Sarasota Orchestra, and many others. Internationally, she has performed with the Simn Bolvar Symphony Orchestra, the Orquestra Sinfnica Brasileira in Rio de Janeiro, the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, and the Royal Northern Sinfonia. She has also performed at the Aspen, Edinburgh, and Mostly Mozart Festivals, and the Hollywood Bowl. With the cessation of live concerts, Simone recorded streamed events with Seattle, Pittsburgh, Charlotte, and Greater Bridgeport Symphonies. In July 2021, she resumed a full season of concerts including scheduled appearances with Denver, North Carolina, St. Louis, Grand Rapids, Quebec, Princeton, and Monterey Symphonies, among others. In 2015, Simone was named a recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant. She made her Carnegie Zankel Hall debut in 2016 and that same year, her performance of music from Schindlers List with Maestro Gustavo Dudamel and members of the American Youth Symphony was broadcast nationally on the TNT Network as part of the American Film Institutes Lifetime Achievement Award: A Tribute to John Williams.Born in 1996, Simone began her professional career at age 10. Raised in Seattle, Washington, she studied with Margaret Pressley and later the renowned pedagogue Robert Lipsett. She performs on a 1740 Carlo Bergonzi violin on generous loan from The Masters University, Santa Clarita, California.simoneporterviolin.comPhoto credit: Elisha Knightprincetonsymphony.org/ 9/ princetonfestival.org'