After winning the ARD Competition in 2014 and receiving the Crédit Suisse Young Artist Award in 2016, Simone Rubino has performed as a soloist with the Wiener Philharmoniker, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the HR-Sinfonieorchester, the Deutschen Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Münchner Philharmoniker, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, the SWR Symphonieorchester, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Kammerakademie Potsdam, the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, under the baton of conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Gustavo Gimeno, Tugan Sokhiev, Manfred Honeck, Tan Dun, Michael Sanderling, Antonello Manacorda, Kristian Järvi, Elim Chan, Maxime Pascal and Francesco Angelico. Since 2016 he has been collaborating regularly with Maestro Tan Dun, performing on several tours in China (Shanghai–Beijing–Xiamen), Poland and Italy. In 2018 he was Artist in Residence with the BR Münchner Rundfunkorchester, and in 2020 with the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini in Parma. Simone Rubino is a regular guest at festivals such as the Lucerne Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Heidelberger Frühling, the Bach Festival in Leipzig, the Bologna Festival, the Czech Chamber Music Society, Musical Olympus in Russia and La Folle Journée (both in France and Japan). From 2019 to 2023 Simone Rubino was Professor of Percussion at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne, and from April 2023 he became Professor of Percussion at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK). Among his recent and upcoming engagements are a concert at the Stresa Festival, the opening concert of the forthcoming season of La Toscanini in Parma in October 2025, participation in the Festival Suoni Riflessi, a collaboration with philosopher Umberto Galimberti at Fasano Musica, and two international concerts in which he will appear as soloist and conductor alongside the BR Münchner Rundfunkorchester, followed by a guest appearance at the Czech Chamber Music Society in Prague. From 2025, Simone Rubino is also Artistic Director of the Fasano Musica Festival in Italy.