The Amsterdam String Quartet was founded in 2000 by 4 international, specialist period instrument string players: Alida Schat and John Wilson Meyer (violin), Simon Murphy (viola), and Thomas Pitt (cello).
Simon J. Murphy, Sr. (1820–1910), millionaire lumberman in Maine, Detroit, and Humboldt County in Northern California
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Simon J. Murphy, Jr. (1851–1926), mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin, son of Simon J. Murphy, Sr.
Paul Simon | Simon & Schuster | Simon Cowell | Carly Simon | Simon Fraser University | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | Eddie Murphy | Simon | Neil Simon | Audie Murphy | Simón Bolívar | Simon Templar | Simon & Garfunkel | Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester | Simon Furman | George Murphy | Simon Rattle | Mark Murphy (singer) | Mark Murphy | Simon de Montfort | Simon and Garfunkel | Simon Boccanegra | Simon Schama | Simon Mayr | Simon Winchester | Murphy | Turk Murphy | Timothy F. Murphy | Simon Property Group | Simon Newcomb |
Its catalogue includes performances by conductors Kent Nagano, Sir Neville Marriner, Mikhail Pletnev, Sir Colin Davis, Yakov Kreizberg, Simon Murphy and Lawrence Foster, instrumentalists Julia Fischer, Martin Helmchen, Mari Kodama, Arabella Steinbacher and Nareh Arghamanyan, and orchestras such as The Russian National Orchestra, The Wiener Symphoniker, The New Dutch Academy, the Bolshoi Opera and many others.