»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).

The Dutch violinist Janine Jansen enjoys an enviable international reputation and collaborates with the world’s most well-known orchestras and conductors. During the 21/22 season, she performed twice with the Berlin Philharmonic. Engagements with the Bayerische Rundfunk Orchester (Mallwitz) with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Mäkelä) and Gianandrea Noseda with the London Symphony Orchestra represent further highlights.

Since recording Vivaldi’s ›Four Seasons‹ in 2003, Jansen has been particularly successful in the music charts, and has an exclusive contract with Decca Classics. Her new recording ›12 Stradivari‹ was released in September 2021; an unusual project featuring 12 magnificent Stradivarius instruments. Jansen selected the repertoire for the project herself in order to emphasise the unique qualities of each instrument as well as to explore the history of the violins and their owners in more detail.

Janine Jansen, also a passionate chamber musician, will be returning this season to her roots as  ›Guest Artistic Director‹ at the International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht. She has been professor at the HEMU Sion (Haute Ecole de Musique Vaud Valais Freiburg) since 2019.

Janine Jansen plays the exquisite ›Shumsky – Rode‹ Stradivarius (1715) which has been loaned to her by a European patron.

Estonian conductor and Grammy Award winner Paavo Järvi has been Artistic Director of The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, his only German orchestra, since 2004. One highlight of the collaboration were the celebrated concerts of the Beethoven cycle, which received critical acclaim worldwide. Järvi received numerous awards for the recordings, including the ›Echo Klassik‹ as ›Conductor of the Year‹ and the prestigious ›Annual Prize of the German Record Critics‹.

Following the Beethoven project, he and the orchestra tackled the symphonic works of Schumann and Brahms, which received similarly enthusiastic reviews. Paavo Järvi is also Principal Conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Advisor to the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra and the Järvi Summer Festival in Pärnu, Estonia, and since 2019/20 Artistic Director of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. He regularly makes appearances as guest conductor with orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic orchestras, the Staatskappelle Dresden and the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago and the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra. In 2015, he was named ›Artist of the Year‹ by the renowned British magazine Gramophone and the French magazine Diapason. In 2019, he received the ›Opus Klassik‹ as ›Conductor of the Year‹.