Janine Jansen
| Janine Jansen | |
|---|---|
| Born |
7 January 1978 Soest, Netherlands |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation(s) | Violinist |
| Instruments | Violin |
| Years active | 2001–present |
| Website | http://www.janinejansen.com/ |
Janine Jansen (pronunciation: ʒɑnine jɑnsən or ʒanine jɑnsən; born 7 January 1978 in Soest in the Netherlands) is a violinist and violist. She began to study the violin at age 6. Her father and both her brothers are also musicians. Her mother is a classical singer and is a sister of the bass Peter Kooy. Jansen studied with Coosje Wijzenbeek, Philippe Hirschhorn, and Boris Belkin. She is married to Swedish conductor Daniel Blendulf.
She appeared as soloist with the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland in 2001, where she performed the Brahms Violin Concerto. She opened the BBC Proms in 2005.
She has eschewed tradition by recording with only five solo strings rather than an orchestra, including her brother as cellist and father playing continuo. In live concerts, she has received standing ovations from enthusiastic audiences, for example at the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra 2006 concert at Berlin's Waldbühne, with a full attendance of 25,000, and in Los Angeles at the Walt Disney Concert Hall with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in 2008 to a sold-out audience.
Jansen has performed on the 1727 Stradivari "Barrere" violin, which was on loan from the Stradivari Society of Chicago, and currently plays on the "Baron Deurbroucq", also crafted in 1727 by Stradivari, which is owned by the Beare's International Violin Society. She has begun her own chamber music festival in Utrecht. She has been a member of Spectrum Concerts Berlin since 1998.
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