Simone Porter makes her North Carolina Symphony debut with these concerts.

      Born in 1996, Simone Porter made her professional solo debut at age 10 with the Seattle Symphony and her international debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London at age 13. In March 2015, she was named a recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant.
      Recent highlights include Mendelssohn with New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and Brahms with Pacific Symphony. Beginning with the Aspen Music Festival, where she is a frequent guest, in 2021 she resumed a full season of concerts to include the North Carolina and Colorado symphonies, Sarasota Orchestra, Orchestre symphonique de Québec, and the symphony orchestras of St. Louis, Bakersfield, and Princeton. Recitals include a program in Boston featuring the world premiere of a commission from composer Reena Esmail.
      Raised in Seattle, Washington, Porter studied with Margaret Pressley as a recipient of the Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Scholarship, and was then admitted into the studio of Robert Lipsett, with whom she studied at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles. Summer studies have included many years at the Aspen Music Festival, Indiana University's String Academy, and the Schlern International Music Festival in Italy.
      Porter performs on a 1740 Carlo Bergonzi violin made in Cremona, Italy, on generous loan from The Master’s University, Santa Clarita, California.