23 Facts About Janine Jansen

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Janine Jansen was born on 7 January 1978 and is a Dutch violinist and violist.

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Janine Jansen's mother was a classical singer; her brother David is a harpsichordist and organist; her brother Maarten is a cellist; and her uncle is the bass singer Peter Kooy.

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Janine Jansen began to study the violin at age 6, and has studied with Coosje Wijzenbeek, Philippe Hirschhorn, and Boris Belkin.

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Janine Jansen competed as a Junior Competitor in the Menuhin Competition in 1991 and 1993, advancing to the finals in 1991.

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Janine Jansen is married to Swedish conductor Daniel Blendulf and lives in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

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Janine Jansen appeared as soloist with the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland in 2001, where she performed the Brahms Violin Concerto.

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Janine Jansen has eschewed tradition by recording with only five solo strings rather than an orchestra, including her brother as cellist and father playing continuo.

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In September 2020, Janine Jansen was gifted the use of the 1715 Stradivari 'Rode, Duke of Cambridge' courtesy of a European benefactor.

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Janine Jansen has begun her own chamber music festival in Utrecht.

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Janine Jansen has been a member of Spectrum Concerts Berlin since 1998.

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Janine Jansen received the Dutch Music Prize in 2003, and the distinguished Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist Award in Britain in 2009.

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In January 2018, Janine Jansen performed Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No 1 under Daniele Gatti's baton.

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In December 2018, Janine Jansen performed with Valery Gergiev and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

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In September 2021, Janine Jansen started in a documentary film about a violin Luthier called Antonio Stradivari.

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In 2009, Janine Jansen released her recording of the Beethoven and Britten Violin Concertos.

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Janine Jansen said that recording these concertos together was a long-standing desire of hers, as she sees these two works as among the greatest concertos in the current repertoire.

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On 29 December 2010, Janine Jansen played with Mischa Maisky and Hannes Minnaar Antonin Dvorak's Piano Trio in e minor, op.

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Janine Jansen has been a member of the chamber music series Spectrum Concerts Berlin since 1998.

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Janine Jansen chose a French repertoire, exposing her wonderful sophisticated sound.

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In 2012, Janine Jansen recorded an album dedicated to Prokofiev, combining chamber music and concert music.

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Janine Jansen recorded an album of chamber music with the violinist Boris Brovtsyn, the violists Amihai Grosz and Maxim Rysanov, the cellists Torleif Thedeen and Jens Peter Maintz.

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In June 2013, Janine Jansen recorded her second album devoted to Bach.

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Janine Jansen recorded Bach's concertos for violin in A minor and in E major with a small ensemble with players chosen by herself and the concerto for violin and oboe with the soloist Ramon Ortega Quero.