The Dutch violinist Janine Jansen has an enviable international reputation and regularly works with the world’s best-known orchestras and conductors. For The New York Times she is »as riveting in silence as in sound«.

Tours with Philippe Jordan and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra as well as Valery Gergiev and the Münchner Philharmoniker and Sakari Oramo with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra are planned for the 2020/21 season. She will also be returning to Noseda and the London Symphony Orchestra, to Søndergård and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as well as to Daniel Blendulf and the Swedish Radio and the Singapore Symphony Orchestras.

Both The Royal Concertgebouw and the Konzerthaus Wien have honoured Janine Jansen with a ›Residency‹ for the 2020/21 season. In this context, she will be giving the world premiere of a new concerto for violin, clarinet and orchestra by Sally Beamish in Amsterdam. She will also be performing the first violin concerto by Dmitri Shostakovich. Valery Gergiev will be conducting.

As an enthusiastic chamber musician, Janine Jansen will be playing a number of concerts à deux together with the pianist Denis Kozhukhin in Carnegie Hall’s famous Stern Auditorium in New York. As ›Joint Guest Artistic Director 2020‹ she will also be returning to her roots at the International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht.

Since her recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons in 2003, Jansen has had an exclusive contract with Decca Classics. She has won numerous prizes, including the Herbert von Karajan Prize 2020 and the Johannes Vermeer Prize (2018). Jansen studied with Coosje Wijzenbeek, Philipp Hirshhorn and Boris Belkin.

Jansen plays an exquisite Stradivarius ›Shumsky-Rode‹ violin (1715), on loan to her by a European patron.

Grammy Award winner Paavo Järvi is one of the most internationally sought-after conductors of our time. Born in Tallinn, Estonia, he studied percussion and conducting at the Tallinn School of Music and continued his studies in the USA at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute with Leonard Bernstein.

Paavo Järvi has been Artistic Director of The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen since 2004, making him the orchestra’s longest-serving principal conductor. Their joint successes with the Beethoven cycle are phenomenal. Among others, Paavo Järvi received the Echo Klassik 2010 Conductor of the Year award for his CD recording of Symphonies No. 2 and No. 6. His following project with The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, the symphonies of Robert Schumann, was as successful as the Beethoven Project. The Japanese Mostly Classics magazine effused: »Järvi’s Schumann is set to go down in Schumann concert history.« Together with The Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen, Paavo Järvi is now working on the Brahms cycle.

Paavo Järvi has been named Artist of the Year by the French magazine Diapason. This was the second major award in 2015 for Paavo Järvi who was also honoured with the same title in September by Gramophone Magazine in London.

Paavo Järvi is also Music Director of the Orchestre de Paris and Artistic Advisor to the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, the Pärnu Festival and the Järvi Academy. Furthermore, he is principal conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo. Guest conducting engagements regularly take him to leading orchestras such as the Berlin or Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam as well as American orchestras in New York, Cleveland and Chicago.