»Among the world’s star soloists, she is as keen a listener and as accomplished and sensitive a chamber music partner as one can get« (New York Times).

Violinist Janine Jansen has longstanding relationships with the world’s most eminent orchestras and conductors.   This season’s highlights include a major US tour with London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Sir Antonio Pappano, and European tours with Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Klaus Mäkelä and Die Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie under the direction of Paavo Järvi.  She continues her Artistic Partnership with Camerata Salzburg and returns to perform Vivaldi’s ›Four Seasons‹ together with Amsterdam Sinfonietta in Amsterdam and on tour across South America including in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. Musikverein Wien features Janine Jansen as an ›Artist in Focus‹ with a variety of projects throughout its 2024/25 season.

Further orchestral engagements are planned with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks/Gaffigan, Luzern Sinfonieorchester/Sanderling and NDR Elbphilharmonie/Oramo with whom she performs the German premiere of Britta Byström’s violin concerto ›Shortening Days‹, a work co-commissioned by the orchestra.
Together with duo partners Denis Kozhukhin and Sunwook Kim she offers recitals across Europe and the USA including at New York Carnegie Hall, Vienna Musikverein, Paris Philharmonie and Amsterdam Concertgebouw.

Janine records exclusively for Decca Classics. Her latest recording released in June 2024 features Sibelius Violin Concerto and Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1 together with Klaus Mäkelä and the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and was met with high critical acclaim throughout.

She is the Founder and Artistic Director of the International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht as well as Co-Artistic Director of Sion Festival.  Since November 2023 she is Professor of Violin Studies at Kronberg Academy where she will perform concerts together with Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica during the Kronberg Festival in October 2024.

Janine studied with Coosje Wijzenbeek, Philipp Hirshhorn and Boris Belkin.

Janine Jansen plays the ›Shumsky – Rode‹ Stradivarius (1715) on generous loan from a European benefactor.

The Estonian conductor and Grammy Award winner Paavo Järvi has served as Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen since 2004. One of the many highlights of this long standing collaboration was the widely acclaimed Beethoven cycle, whose performances were celebrated by critics around the world and honoured with numerous awards, including the Echo Klassik for “Conductor of the Year.” The Beethoven project was followed by an intensive exploration of the symphonic works of Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms; both cycles likewise received multiple distinctions. Since autumn 2021, the orchestra has turned its focus to Joseph Haydn’s twelve London Symphonies, followed in 2024 by an in depth engagement with the symphonies of Franz Schubert.

Since the 2019/20 season, Paavo Järvi has also served as Music Director of the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich. Starting with the 2028/29 season, Järvi will assume the position of Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He is the founder and Artistic Director of the Estonian Festival Orchestra and the Pärnu Music Festival, which he established in 2011. As a guest conductor, he regularly appears with leading orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In 2015, Paavo Järvi was named Artist of the Year by both Gramophone magazine (UK) and Diapason (France). This was followed in 2019 by the Opus Klassik award for Conductor of the Year. Further honours include a Grammy Award for his recording of Sibelius’ Cantatas with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and the title Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, awarded by the French Ministry of Culture. In recognition of his commitment to promoting the music of Jean Sibelius, he received the Sibelius Medal in 2015, and in 2012 he was awarded the Hindemith Prize for Art and Humanity. For his dedication to Estonian culture, Paavo Järvi was awarded the Order of the White Star by the President of Estonia in 2013, and in 2024 he received the Bremen Senate Medal for Art and Science.