Janine Jansen
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Janine Jansen | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Jansen in 2019 | |
| Born | 7 January 1978 Soest, Netherlands |
| Alma mater | Utrechts Conservatorium |
| Occupations | Classical violinist and violist |
| Website | https://www.janinejansen.com |
Janine Jansen (born 7 January 1978) is a Dutch violinist and violist.
Jansen was born in Soest in the Netherlands into a musical family. Her father Jan Jansen plays organ, harpsichord and piano; from 1987 to mid-2011 he was the organist of St. Martin's Cathedral, Utrecht, and was invested as a Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau. Her mother was a classical singer; her brother David Jansen is a harpsichordist and organist; her brother Maarten is a cellist; and her uncle is the bass singer Peter Kooy. She began to study the violin at age 6,[1] and has studied with Coosje Wijzenbeek, Philippe Hirschhorn, and Boris Belkin.[2]
She competed as a Junior Competitor in the Menuhin Competition in 1991 and 1993, advancing to the finals in 1991.[3]
She is married to Swedish conductor Daniel Blendulf and lives in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Career
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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.[4]
She has eschewed tradition by recording with only five solo strings rather than an orchestra,[clarification needed] 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.[5]
Jansen has performed with several famous violins, including the 1727 Stradivari "Barrere" violin, which was on loan from the Stradivari Society of Chicago,[6] the 1727 Stradivari "Baron Deurbroucq", owned by the Beare's International Violin Society,[7] and the 1707 Antonio Stradivari ‘Rivaz, Baron Gutmann’, owned by the Norwegian national bank's subsidiary, Dextra Musica.[8] In September 2020, Janine was gifted the use of the 1715 Stradivari ‘Rode, Duke of Cambridge’ courtesy of a European benefactor.[9]
She has begun her own chamber music festival in Utrecht. She has been a member of Spectrum Concerts Berlin since 1998.
She received the Dutch Music Prize in 2003, and the distinguished Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist Award in Britain in 2009.[2]
Jansen was a Radio 3 New Generation Artist from 2002–2004.[10]
She and her ex-boyfriend, the violinist Julian Rachlin, have collaborated in chamber music performances.[11]
In January 2018, Jansen performed Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 under Daniele Gatti's baton.[12]
In February of the same year, Jansen performed with Mischa Maisky, Martha Argerich and Barbican Conservatory at the Barbican Centre.[13]
In December 2018, Jansen performed with Valery Gergiev and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.[14]
In September 2021, Jansen starred in a documentary film about the violin luthier Antonio Stradivari.[15]
For her performance with Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra between 1997 and 2018, Jansen became a recipient of the Johannes Vermeer Award, which was awarded to her by the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science, Ingrid van Engelshoven.[16]
