Simon Andrew Thomas Standage was born on 8 November 1941 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire and is an English violinist and conductor best known for playing and conducting music of the baroque and classical eras on original instruments.
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Simon Standage studied music at King's College, Cambridge, following which he spent four years in the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra under Szymon Goldberg.
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Simon Standage won a Harkness Fellowship to study with Ivan Galamian in New York City from 1967 to 1969.
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Simon Standage was first violinist of The English Concert from 1972 to 1991.
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Simon Standage was the first concertino violin in the concerti grossi of Corelli, Handel and others.
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Simon Standage played regularly with The Academy of Ancient Music throughout the 1980s, often as first violin, and recorded Vivaldi's op.
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Simon Standage later became associate director of the AAM from 1991 to 1995.
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Simon Standage plays in period-instrument chamber group The Music Collection with Susan Alexander-Max and Jennifer Ward Clarke.
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