Roman Simović’s brilliant virtuosity and seemingly-inborn musicality, fueled by a limitless imagination, has taken him throughout all continents performing on many of world’s leading stages including the Bolshoi Hall of the Tchaikovsky conservatory, Mariinsky hall in St. Petersburg, Grand Opera House in Tel-Aviv, Victoria Hall in Geneva, Rudolfinum Hall in Prague, Barbican Hall in London, Art Centre in Seoul, Grieg Hall in Bergen, Rachmaninov Hall in Moscow...
Roman Simović has been awarded prizes at numerous international competitions among which there are Premio Rodolfo Lipizer, Sion-Valais, Yampolsky Violin Competition and the Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition, placing him among the foremost violinists of his generation.
As soloist, Simović has appeared with the world leading orchestras: London Symphony Orchestra, Mariinsky theatre symphony orchestra, Teatro Regio Torino, Symphony Nova Scotia, Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Bern, Camerata Salzburg, Poznan Philharmonia, Prague Philharmonia, conducted by Valery Gergiev, Antonio Pappano, Daniel Harding, Gianandrea Noseda, Kristjan Järvi, Jiří Bělohlávek, Pablo Heras-Casado, Nikolaj Znaider...
A sought-after artist, Roman Simović has been invited and continues to perform at various distinguished festivals such as the Verbier Festival, White Nights Festival St. Petersburg, Valery Gergiev’s Moscow Easter Festival, Dubrovnik Summer Festival in Croatia, Kotor Art Montenegro, the BEMUS and NOMUS Festivals in Serbia, Sion Valais Switzerland, Norway’s Bergen Festival, Moscow Winter Festival, Portogruaro Festival in Italy, Granada International Festival of Music and Dance in Spain, collaborating with such renowned artists as Leonidas Kavakos, Yuja Wang, Gautier Capuçon, Tabea Zimmermann, Misha Maisky, Shlomo Mintz, François Leleux, Itamar Golan, Simon Trpčeski, Janine Jansen, Julian Rachlin...
Aside from being an active soloist, Roman Simović is an avid chamber musician, and is a founding member of the distinguished Rubikon String Quartet. As an educator, he has presenter master-classes in the US, UK, South Korea, Serbia, Montenegro, Israel. Roman Simović plays a 1709 Antonio Stradivari violin which was generously given to him on loan from Jonathan Moulds, Bank of America’s president.
In the 2015/16 season Roman Simović released two CD’s directing LSO string orchestra for the LSO label and Tchaikovsky and Glazunov concertos with Gergiev and Mariinsky orchestra for Mariinsky label.
Roman Simović is serving as a leader of the great London Symphony Orchestra.

Milena Simović was born in Belgrade where she completed her bachelor and master’s studies at the Faculty of Music in the class of Maja Jokanović, under whose mentorship she continued her specialist studies as well. In 2011 she completed her master’s degree at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, in the class of Krzysztof Smietana. During the studies, Milena collaborated with conductors such as Sir Colin Davis, Galery Gergiev, Gustavo Dudamel and others.
She was a stipendist of the Fund for Young Talents, Rotary Club Skadarlija, as well as numerous foundations in Great Britain.
She performed at all significant festivals in the region, as well as at the festivals in Great Britain, Italy, Switzerland, Israel, Brazil and America.
She performs regularly as a soloist and as a chamber musician with distinguished colleagues such as Itamar Golan, Danilo Rossi, Gordan Nikolić, Roman Siimović, Ksenija Janković, Alexander Zemcov, Giovanni Gnocchi and others.
She is a member of the Oxforf Philharmonic Orchestra under the artistic guidance of Maxim Vengerov, and she also performs regularly with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Covent Garden Orchestra.
Milena plays a Paolo Antonio Testore viola from 1740.

School for Music Talents in Ćuprija is a unique institution in Serbia. During the ten years of schooling, the members of this “big music family“ have been living in a boarding school system, completely focused on the intensive program of the general and music education this school offers them. Only two other institutions of education operate on a similar concept: The Central Music School in Moscow and the Yehudi Menuhin School in London. The school is currently frequented by 80 students from Serbia and the region.
This school is completely string-oriented. It collaborates with the Faculty of Music in Belgrade and has been open for 43 years. It is famous for its results and successful ex students. The school has already helped form 200 young musicians, who have continued their education at the world’s most renowned faculties.
School for Music Talents, aside from its main, educational role, also developed a wide spectrum of concert engagements, both in and out of the country. The students of the school have won numerous and various awards at domestic and international contests.