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Simon James Australian violinist Simon James is in his fifteenth season with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. Before joining the SSO, he was a member of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Lincoln Center Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, he won the Dr. Benjamin Alexander Memorial Scholarship. He also won an Australia Council Award. Mr. James has played solo recitals and concertos throughout the world and is a former member of the Claremont Trio, the Sonora & Peters String Quartet, and the Australia Chamber Soloists. He is a founding member of the Seattle Violin Virtuosi
and Seattle Chamber Orchestra and serves as Concertmaster. He
was concertmaster for the Bolshoi Ballet’s recent Seattle performance
of “Swan Lake”. This year he has recorded Richard Englefield’s
Violin Concerto #1 with the Czech Radio Orchestra of Bratislava under
the direction of Kirk Trevor. He also recorded music of Saint-Saens,
Ravel, and Debussy with harpist Juliet Stratton. An active studio
musician, he has recorded over 200 motion picture a |
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