Janine Jansen

Considered one of the greatest violinists in the world, Janine Jansen has undertaken multiple tours with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, namely of Spain and the US in 2010, Berlin (on a state visit) in April 2011, China and Korea in February 2012, South Africa in March 2013 and again China in 2017.

Jansen has returned to make frequent guest appearances since her double Concertgebouw Orchestra debut in December 2004, when she performed both the Britten Violin Concerto and the Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2. She appeared as soloist with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in the 2014 world premiere of Michel van der Aa’s Violin Concerto.

Jansen served as the orchestra’s artist in residence in the 2020–21 season, an appointment that was largely eclipsed by the coronavirus pandemic. She joined forces with a number of musicians from the orchestra to perform Stravinsky’s Histoire du soldat in May 2021. Jansen most recently collaborated with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in a performance of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 4, K 218 under the direction of Herbert Blomstedt in January 2023.

She has also made solo appearances with such orchestras as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Berlin and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras.

The violinist enjoys performing chamber music with musical colleagues including Leif Ove Andsnes, Martin Fröst, Itamar Golan, Mischa Maisky and Julian Rachlin. Jansen hosted her own festival dedicated to Bach’s music at the Concertgebouw in March 2024.

She has won a number of awards, including four Edisons, four Echo Klassik Awards, the 2008 Classical Music Prize of the Association of Theatres and Concert Hall Management Boards (VSCD), the 2009 Instrumentalist Award of the Royal Philharmonic Society, the 2013 Concertgebouw Prize and the 2018 Johannes Vermeer Prize.

Jansen studied with Coosje Wijzenbeek, Philippe Hirschhorn and Boris Belkin. She plays the ‘Shumsky-Rode’ Stradivarius, built in 1715.