»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.

Estonian conductor and Grammy Award winner Paavo Järvi has been Artistic Director of the Deutsche Kammer­philharmonie Bremen since 2004. One of the many highlights of this collaboration has been the acclaimed, globally celebrated performances of the Beethoven cycle, for which Järvi received numerous awards including the ›Echo Klassik Conductor of the Year‹ award and the prestigious annual ›German Record Critics‹’ award. Their Beethoven project was followed by an intensive exploration of the symphonic works of Schumann and Brahms; both cycles also received numerous awards. Since autumn 2021, the focus has been on Joseph Haydn’s twelve London symphonies, and since 2024, an intensive exploration of Franz Schubert’s symphonies.

Paavo Järvi has been Music Director of the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich since the start of the 2019/2020 season. He is also the founder and Artistic Director of the Estonian Festival Orchestra and the Pärnu Music Festival, which he established in 2011. He regularly appears as a guest conductor with major orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the London Philharmonia Orchestra, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestras and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In 2015, he was named ›Artist of the Year‹ by both the British magazine Gramophone and the French magazine Diapason. This was followed in 2019 by the Opus Klassik award for ›Conductor of the Year‹. Other awards 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 2015, Paavo Järvi also received the Sibelius Medal in recognition of his work in bringing this Finnish composer’s music to a wider audience, and in 2012 he received the Hindemith Prize for Art and Humanity. As a committed supporter of Estonian culture, Paavo Järvi was awarded the Order of the White Star by the President of Estonia in 2013.