Janine Jansen

Violinist Janine Jansen, born in the Netherlands in 1978, has an extraordinary international reputation and works with the world’s most eminent orchestras and conductors. Regular musical partners include the Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra and Oslo Philharmonic under the baton of conductors as Sir Antonio Pappano. 

Being a passionate chamber musician, Janine is Artistic Director of the International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht, which she founded in 2003. In March 2024 the Concertgebouw Amsterdam will host the first “Janine Jansen Bach Festival” comprising of a number of orchestral, choral and chamber concerts programmed, inspired and performed by Janine and her musical partners. At London’s Wigmore Hall, she is Artist-in-Residence during the 2023/24 season.

Janine records exclusively for Decca Classics. Her latest recording “12 Stradivari” released in September 2021, is a unique exploration of 12 great Stradivarius violins and the repertoire these extraordinary instruments inspired. The chosen repertoire is specially curated by Janine Jansen to showcase the unique qualities of each violin.

Aside from her successful Vivaldi’s Four Seasons recording back in 2003, her discography includes performances of Bartok’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with the London Symphony Orchestra and Brahms’ Violin Concerto with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano.  Other recording highlights include Beethoven and Britten with Paavo Järvi, Mendelssohn and Bruch with Riccardo Chailly, Tchaikovsky with Daniel Harding, Prokofiev Concerto No 2 with Vladimir Jurowski as well as two recordings featuring works by J.S. Bach. Janine has also released a number of chamber music discs, including Schubert’s String Quintet and Schönberg’s Verklärte Nacht and Sonatas by Debussy, Ravel and Prokofiev with pianist Itamar Golan.

Janine has won numerous prizes, including the Herbert-von-Karajan Preis 2020, the Vermeer Prize 2018 awarded by the Dutch government, five Edison Klassiek Awards, der Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, NDR Musikpreis for outstanding artistic achievement and the Concertgebouw Prize. She has been given the VSCD Klassieke Muziekprijs for individual achievement and the Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist Award for performances in the UK.  In September 2015 she was awarded the Bremen MusikFest Award. Janine studied with Coosje Wijzenbeek, Philipp Hirshhorn and Boris Belkin.

Janine Jansen plays the 1715 ‘Shumsky-Rode’ Stradivarius, on generous loan by a European benefactor. In 2019 she became a Professor of Violin at the HÉMU Sion (Haute École de Musique Vaud Valais Fribourg) and additionally teaches at Kronberg Academy since November 2023.