Simone Spagnolo’s music has been performed in internationally known venues and festivals such as London's Royal Festival Hall, St.Martin-in-the-Fields, Blackheath Halls, Tete-a-Tete Festival, Mumford Theatre, Italian Cultural Institute London, Birmingham Conservatoire, Stanford University, Los Angeles’ Aratani Theatre, Brno’s Janacek Academy, Budapest’s Liszt Academy, Zaragoza’s Conservatorio Superiore, Chongqing University, Hong Kong’s Yuen Long Theatre, Italy’s CEF Festival and Pennsylvania’s Great Lakes Film Festival, among others. Simone has received numerous awards, including the Asia America Symphony Orchestra Prize and Philip Bates Prize. In 2011 he has been appointed as artist-in-residence at Bergen's USF Verftet, Norway. Currently, Simone holds the position of Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for Composition at London College of Music. Recent Reviews "Spagnolo’s music both stimulates and satisfies the ear, at once modern, eerie and undeniably beautiful", Operissima "Imaginative Scoring", The Stage "lush and flowing music, with edges both of wildness and of formalism", Tasting Rhubarb