AboutJanine Jansen
Violinist Janine Jansen regularly collaborates with the world's most renowned orchestras, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic, and the New York Philharmonic. Among the conductors with whom she has worked are such distinguished names as Edo de Waart, Gustavo Dudamel, Daniel Harding, Mariss Jansons, Paavo Järvi, Vladimir Jurowski, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Sakari Oramo, Antonio Pappano, and Esa-Pekka Salonen.
In the 2012/13 season, Janine embarks on a number of international concert tours. At the beginning of the season, she performs Szymanowski's Violin Concerto on a European tour with the London Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gergiev, including two highly anticipated appearances at London's Barbican Centre. She is also the soloist on a European tour with the Munich Philharmonic and Lorin Maazel and tours with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer in Europe and North America. Janine continues her long-standing association with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra by joining Charles Dutoit on a tour in South Africa to celebrate the orchestra's 125th anniversary. In early 2013, Janine works on an extensive concert tour with the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields to Istanbul, Salzburg, London, Eindhoven, and Germany.
Following acclaimed performances in past seasons, she returns for the premiere of Penderecki's Double Concerto with Julian Rachlin to the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, as well as to the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the hr-Sinfonieorchester, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic, and makes her debut with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
As a dedicated chamber musician, Janine undertakes a duo recital tour in Japan with pianist Itamar Golan, featuring a program of works by Beethoven, Szymanowski, and Dubugnon. She founded and curates the International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht and has performed in every concert season of the chamber music series Spectrum Concerts Berlin at the Berlin Philharmonie since 1998. Her regular chamber music partners include Martin Fröst, Torleif Thedéen, Maxim Rysanov, Boris Brovtsyn, and Amihai Grosz.
Janine is particularly renowned for her success in the digital music charts and records exclusively for Decca (Universal Music). Her latest recording, just released by the London label, includes chamber music recordings of Bach concertos as well as two sonatas for violin and harpsichord. Her future releases include a Prokofiev disc with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski and a chamber music project including Schubert's String Quintet and Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht. Her previous recordings include concertos by Beethoven and Britten with Paavo Järvi, Mendelssohn and Bruch with Riccardo Chailly, and Tchaikovsky with Daniel Harding.
To date, Janine has received the Netherlands Music Prize from the Ministry of Culture – the highest honor an artist can achieve in the Netherlands – in addition to numerous other awards including four Edison Klassiek Awards, three ECHO Klassik Music Prizes, the German Record Critics' Award, and the NDR Music Prize for outstanding artistic achievements. She also won the VSCD Klassieke Muziekprijs for individual achievements and the RPS Instrumentalist Award for performances in the United Kingdom. Janine studied with, among others, Coosje Wijzenbeek, Philipp Hirshhorn, and Boris Belkin.
The outstanding instrument Janine plays is the "Barrere" violin by Antonio Stradivari (1727), a long-term loan from the Elise Mathilde Foundation.