Simen Fegran joined the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in August 2025. Previously, he was hornist of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra since 2019. He has been a regular guest musician with some of Europe’s leading orchestras, including the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
Simen Fegran received his first horn lessons at the age of six with Johannes Theodor Wiemes. At age fifteen he was accepted in the Institute for the Early Advancement of the Musically Highly Gifted at the University of Music in Hannover, where he was given advanced training in music theory and conducting while receiving horn lessons with Markus Maskuniitty.
In 2011, the German-Norwegian hornist took up his studies with Michael Höltzel in Rostock and later continued under the guidance of Thomas Hauschild in Leipzig. Fegran gathered early orchestral experience as a member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and also held a temporary contract with the Hannover State Opera.
In 2017, Fegran co-founded the Alma Mahler Kammerorchester in 2017, a chamber orchestra bringing together young professional musicians from all over Europe, where he remained a board member for three years.