Janine Jansen

Janine Jansen is a classical violinist from the Netherlands who built on stardom in her homeland to garner worldwide attention for her fluid and formidable technique with many international appearances and albums that have placed on the Billboard Classical Music Chart. Born in the town of Soest, the daughter of musicians, she studied the violin from the age of six and in 2001, aged 23, she performed Brahms' 'Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77' as a soloist with the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland. She won the Dutch Music Prize in 2003, was named a BBC New Generation Artist and in 2005 she performed with the BBC Symphony conducted by Roger Norrington in a live BBC One broadcast of the first night at the BBC Proms in Royal Albert Hall in London. She made her American debut in 2007 with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and has performed with orchestras in Cleveland, Toronto, Dresden and Berlin and toured Europe with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Japan with SWR Stuttgart. Her 2005 recording of Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' went to number 12 on the Billboard Classical Music Chart and was followed by 'Mendelssohn/Bruch: Concertos & Romance' (2007) with the Gewandhaus Orchestra which reached number 20. 'Messiaen: Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps (Quartet for the End of Time)' with pianist Lucas Debargue, clarinetist Martin Fröst and cellist Torleif Thedéen was released in November 2017 and in 2018 she announced she would perform Bruch, Debussy, Grieg and Chausson in New York.

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