Simone Porter

violin

made her solo orchestral debut at the age of eight. A member of the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra for the past six years, she has also soloed with the Port Angeles Symphony, Olympia Symphony, Philharmonia Northwest and the Seattle Symphony. Last year she was a featured performer on the nationally syndicated radio program From the Top, and was asked back to appear on their From the Top: Live from Carnegie Hall, which is broadcast nationally on Public Television. Other highlights of 2008 include a performance for the Dalai Lama at the Seeds of Compassion Summit and winning the Seattle Young Artists Music Festival. This past April, Simone was featured in a British documentary entitled The World's Greatest Musical Prodigies, for which she soloed with Northern Sinfonia, one of Europe's top chamber orchestras. A review in the London Independent noted that, with her performance of the Haydn Concerto in C Major, she "proved herself the consummate chamber musician." The documentary will be aired this June on Britain's Channel 4. Simone studied with Margaret Pressley for six years, and was a recipient of a Dorothy Richard Starling Fellowship for three of those years. In September, 2008, Simone began studies with Robert Lipsett at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in L.A. Summer studies have included attendance at Indiana Summer String Academy, Schlern International Music Festival, and most recently, the Aspen Music Festival, where she will go again this summer. Upcoming performances include soloing with the Olympia Symphony next year. She is currently a sixth grader at Washington Middle School.

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