Janine Jansen

Janine Jansen has longstanding relationships with the world’s most eminent orchestras and conductors. 

During the 2025/26 season, she is Artist-in-Residence with the Berliner Philharmoniker, appearing in performances with Kirill Petrenko (Brahms), Sir Simon Rattle (Prokofiev No. 1), and Tugan Sokhiev (Bruch), as well as in chamber music programmes with members of the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Karajan Akademie. 

She also appears as Featured Artist with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, performing with conductors Esa-Pekka Salonen and Sir Antonio Pappano, and taking part in various chamber music programmes during the Baltic Sea Festival and the orchestra’s main season. 

Extensive tours are planned with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Klaus Mäkelä, the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Antonio Pappano, and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich under Paavo Järvi. She continues her artistic partnership with Camerata Salzburg, culminating in two major tours across Asia and Europe. 

Further orchestral engagements include appearances with the Orchestre de Paris and Klaus Mäkelä, the Filarmonica della Scala and Fabio Luisi, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and Julian Rachlin, and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Lorenzo Viotti. 

Janine Jansen also continues her musical partnerships with Martha Argerich and Mischa Maisky, with performances at the Musikverein Wien, in Lucerne, and in Tokyo, as well as with her regular recital partners Denis Kozhukhin and Sunwook Kim in Asia and Europe. 

Janine Jansen records exclusively for Decca Classics. Her latest recording, released in June 2024, features the Sibelius Violin Concerto and Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with Klaus Mäkelä and the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, and was met with widespread critical acclaim. 

She is the founder and Artistic Director of the International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht, as well as Co-Artistic Director of the Sion Festival. In December 2025, she returns to London for two concerts at the Beare’s Festival. 

Since November 2023, Janine Jansen has been Professor of Violin Studies at the Kronberg Academy. She studied with Coosje Wijzenbeek, Philipp Hirshhorn, and Boris Belkin. 

Janine Jansen plays the «Shumsky-Rode» Stradivarius from 1715, generously on loan from a European benefactor. 

Janine Jansen is a PIRASTRO artist and plays Evah Pirazzi Neo strings.