Janine Jansen

The Dutch violinist Janine Jansen, born in Soest in the province of Utrecht in 1978, comes from a family of musicians. She began learning violin at the age of six with Coosje Wijzenbeek, later studying with Philippe Hirschhorn and Boris Belkin. As a BBC New Generation Artist, Janine Jansen made her debut at the BBC Proms in 2003 and has been a regular guest ever since, performing at the legendary Last Night in 2014, which was broadcast worldwide on television. Since then, she has performed with the world’s leading orchestras. In the 2024-25 season, she toured the US with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Antonio Pappano; she also toured Europe with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Klaus Mäkelä, and with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Paavo Järvi. Additional engagements have taken her to the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Camerata Salzburg, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, and the Amsterdam Sinfonietta. She has given recitals at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Philharmonie in Paris, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam with Denis Kozhukhin and Sunwook Kim, among others. In the 2025-26 season, she will be artist-in-residence with the Berliner Philharmoniker, where she will perform the Brahms Concerto under Kirill Petrenko and Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto under Sir Simon Rattle. Jansen’s discography spans three centuries, from Antonio Vivaldi to Benjamin Britten. Her album 12 Stradivari, on which she introduces 12 different violins by the legendary violin maker, caused a sensation. She is the founder and director of the International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht and co-director of the Sion Festival. Since 2013, she has been teaching at the Kronberg Academy. For her artistic achievements she has received the Concertgebouw Prize, the Royal Philharmonic Society Award, the Bremen Music Festival Prize, and the Johannes Vermeer Prize. Janine Jansen plays the “Shumsky-Rode” Stradivarius, built in 1715.

One previous appearance at Lucerne Festival: on 13 April 2019, when Janine Jansen made her debut here playing Béla Bartók’s First Violin Concerto with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Iván Fischer.

June 2025