Janine Jansen
Principal Professor in the Kronberg Academy Study Programmes
"Among the world's star soloists, she's as keen a listener, as adept and intimate a chamber partner, as it gets." New York Times
Janine Jansen has longstanding relationships with the world’s most eminent orchestras and conductors. During season 2025/26 she is “Artist-in-Residence“ with the Berliner Philharmoniker featuring in performances together with Kirill Petrenko (Brahms), Sir Simon Rattle (Prokofiev No 1) and Tughan Sokhiev (Bruch) as well as in chamber music programmes together with members of the Berlin Philharmonic and the Karajan Akademie.
Furthermore she also appears as “Featured Artist” with Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra alongside conductors Esa-Pekka Salonen and Sir Antonio Pappano and in various chamber music programmes during Baltic Sea Festival and the main season.
Extensive tours are planned with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Mäkelä and London Symphony Orchestra/Pappano and with the Tonhalle Orchester/Paavo Järvi. She continues her Artistic Partnership with Camerata Salzburg culminating in two major tours across Asia and Europe.
Orchestral engagements are also planned with Orchestre de Paris/Mäkelä, Filarmonica della Scala/Luisi, Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Rachlin and Orchestre della Suisse Romande/Viotti.
She continues her musical partnerships with Martha Argerich and Mischa Maisky -with performances at Musikverein Wien, Lucerne and in Tokyo - as well as her regular recital partners, Denis Kozhukhin and Sunwook Kim, in Asia and in Europe.
Janine records exclusively for Decca Classics. Her latest recording released in June 2024 features Sibelius Violin Concerto and Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 1 together with Klaus Mäkelä and the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and was met with high critical acclaim throughout.
She is the Founder and Artistic Director of the International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht as well as Co-Artistic Director of Sion Festival. In December 2025 she returns to London for two concerts at the Beare’s Festival. Since November 2023 she is Professor of Violin Studies at Kronberg Academy.
Janine studied with Coosje Wijzenbeek, Philipp Hirshhorn and Boris Belkin.
JANINE JANSEN & FRIENDS I
Participants
- Janine Jansen violin
- Hana Chang violin
- Anna Im violin
- Julian Rhee violin
- Ruslan Talas violin
- Pauline van der Rest violin
- Noga Shaham viola
- Clara Yuna Friedensburg cello
- Denis Kozhukhin piano
Programme
Zoltán Kodály (1882–1967)
Serenade for Two Violins and Viola, Op. 12
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909–1969)
Quartet for Four Violins
Joaquin Turina (1882–1949)
Fantasy, Op. 91 "Círculo"
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major
Subject to change.
JANINE JANSEN & FRIENDS II
Participants
- Janine Jansen violin
- Pauline van der Rest violin
- Hana Chang violin
- Amihai Grosz viola
- Sào Soulez Larivière viola
- Noga Shaham viola
- Daniel Blendulf cello
- LiLa cello
- Benjamin Kruithof cello
- Denis Kozhukhin piano
Programme
Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
Quartet movement in C minor D 703
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)
Piano quartet Nr. 3 in C minor op. 60
Arnold Schönberg (1874–1951)
„Verklärte Nacht“ in C minor for string sextet op. 4
Subject to change.
JANINE JANSEN & FRIENDS III
Participants
- Janine Jansen violin
- Anna Im violin
- Ruslan Talas violin
- Pauline van der Rest violin
- Amihai Grosz viola
- Sào Soulez Larivière viola
- Haesue Lee viola
- Daniel Blendulf cello
- LiLa cello
- Petar Pejčić cello
- Dominik Wagner double bass
- Denis Kozhukhin piano
Programme
Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)
Sonata in C major for two violins op. 56
Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
Piano quartet Nr. 2 in E flat major op. 87
Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
Metamorphoses for string septet
Subject to change.
JANINE JANSEN / JAEMIN HAN / SUNWOOK KIM
Participants
- Janine Jansen violin
- Jaemin Han cello
- Sunwook Kim piano
Programme
Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
Sonatina in G major for Piano and Violin, Op. 100
Leoš Janáček (1854–1928)
Sonata for Violin and Piano
Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884)
Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15
Concert without intermission
Subject to change.
Janine Jansen, Timothy Ridout & Camerata Salzburg
Participants
- Janine Jansen violin
- Gregory Ahss violin & conducting
- Timothy Ridout viola
- Camerata Salzburg
Programme
Symphony No. 10 in G major, K. 74
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 5 in A major, K. 219
Intermission
Concerto for Violin, Viola and Orchestra “Sinfonia concertante” in E-flat major, K. 364
Experiencing people and masters up close is part of the special aura of the Kronberg Academy. It is particularly exciting when the ‘greats’ perform together with young talents: such as on October 4, when star violinist Janine Jansen will be performing with young artists Jaemin Han and Sunwook Kim in Kronberg's Johanniskirche. With Dvořák, Janáček, and Smetana, the three bring an Eastern European program to Kronberg that is bursting with passion.
Subject to change.