Prof. Simone von Rahden
- Born in Karlsruhe
- Studies in viola with Prof. Wolfram Christ in Freiburg and with Prof. Tabea Zimmermann in Berlin; 2011: concert exam with distinction
- Prizes and scholarships from national and international youth competitions; 2004: support from Claudio Abbado, who passed on a prize, awarded to him by the Kythera-Stiftung in Düsseldorf, to outstanding young musicians
- chamber music concerts in many European countries, as well as Japan, the US, and Israel; currently maintains artistic partnerships with Lorenza Borrani, Matthew Truscott, Maia Cabeza, Luise Buchberger, Clara Andrada de la Calle, Alfredo and Cecilia Bernardini, Lorenzo Coppola, Alec Frank-Gemmill, Kristian Bezuidenhout, and the Amaryllis Quartett
- Member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe since 2009 and of the Spira mirabilis project; member of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra since its founding by Claudio Abbado, and of the Orchestra Mozart Bologna
- 2008/2009: Solo violist at the Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, as a guest with the Philharmonia Orchestra London, the Kammerakademie Potsdam, and the Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
- A growing dedication for a number of years to historic performance practices; performances on the Baroque viola and the viola d'amore with the Dunedin Consort Edinburgh, the InternationalenBachakademie Stuttgart, and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; solo violist since 2016
- Soloist appearances with the Philharmonie Baden-Baden, “El Teatre Instrumental” Barcelona, the Philharmonie Südwestfalen, the English Haydn Orchestra, the Hamburger Camerata, and the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
- Since 2014: instructor at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin, initially as an assistant to Tabea Zimmermann, and leading her own course beginning in 2015