Janine Jansen is sitting on a chair, a violin in her hands. She is wearing jeans and a light blue blouse and looks into the camera with a smile.

With the Berliner Philharmoniker
Brahms: Violin Concerto
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1
Kirill Petrenko – Sir Simon Rattle

Chamber music with members
of the Berliner Philharmoniker
Brahms: Horn Trio 
Enescu: String Octet

With the Karajan Akademie
Beethoven: Septet
Shostakovich: 2 pieces for string octet
Bartók: Divertimento

Subscription series: “Artist in Residence”
4 concerts
246 € – 289 €
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Janine Jansen | Picture: Kaupo Kikkas

As a soloist, Janine Jansen considers it her main task “to speak from the heart”.  For all the hard work that goes before, her goal when she walks onto the stage is to be able to live in the moment.  The Dutch violinist is the Berliner Philharmoniker's Artist in Residence this season. Together with the orchestra’s chief conductor, she will perform Brahms’s immense and vehement Violin Concerto, while with Sir Simon Rattle she plays Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto, a work that she describes as inhabiting “a world of magic”.

To mark the beginning of her residency, we spoke with Janine Jansen. She talked about the freedom that she feels on the podium, about playing for family celebrations, and about the changing priorities in her life.

Artist in Residence
Main Auditorium

Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Janine Jansen violin

Works by
Percy Grainger, Sergei Prokofiev and John Adams

Percy Grainger
Lincolnshire Posy

Sergei Prokofiev
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in D major, op. 19

Janine Jansen violin

Interval

John Adams
Harmonielehre

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Artist in Residence
Main Auditorium

Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Janine Jansen violin

Works by
Percy Grainger, Sergei Prokofiev and John Adams

Percy Grainger
Lincolnshire Posy

Sergei Prokofiev
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in D major, op. 19

Janine Jansen violin

Interval

John Adams
Harmonielehre

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Artist in Residence
Main Auditorium

Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Janine Jansen violin

Works by
Percy Grainger, Sergei Prokofiev and John Adams

Percy Grainger
Lincolnshire Posy

Sergei Prokofiev
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1 in D major, op. 19

Janine Jansen violin

Interval

John Adams
Harmonielehre

Janine Jansen is sitting on a chair, a violin in her hands. She is wearing jeans and a light blue blouse and looks into the camera with a smile.

Artist in Residence
Main Auditorium

Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko conductor
Janine Jansen violin

Works by
Johannes Brahms and Alexander Scriabin

Johannes Brahms
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, op. 77

Janine Jansen violin

Interval

Alexander Scriabin
Symphony No. 3 in C minor op. 43

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Janine Jansen is sitting on a chair, a violin in her hands. She is wearing jeans and a light blue blouse and looks into the camera with a smile.

Artist in Residence
Main Auditorium

Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko conductor
Janine Jansen violin

Works by
Johannes Brahms and Alexander Scriabin

Johannes Brahms
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, op. 77

Janine Jansen violin

Interval

Alexander Scriabin
Symphony No. 3 in C minor op. 43

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Janine Jansen is sitting on a chair, a violin in her hands. She is wearing jeans and a light blue blouse and looks into the camera with a smile.

Artist in Residence
Main Auditorium

Berliner Philharmoniker
Kirill Petrenko conductor
Janine Jansen violin

Works by
Johannes Brahms and Alexander Scriabin

Johannes Brahms
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, op. 77

Janine Jansen violin

Interval

Alexander Scriabin
Symphony No. 3 in C minor op. 43

Janine Jansen with long hair, a light blue shirt and black trousers sits barefoot on the floor. She holds a violin upright on her foot and looks thoughtfully into the camera.

Artist in Residence
Chamber Music Hall

Karajan-Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker
Janine Jansen violin

Works by
Ludwig van Beethoven, Dmitri Shostakovich and Béla Bartók

Ludwig van Beethoven
Septet in E flat major, op. 20

Dmitri Shostakovich
Two Pieces for String Octet, op. 11

Béla Bartók
Divertimento for String Orchestra, Sz 113

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Janine Jansen with long hair, a light blue shirt and black trousers sits barefoot on the floor. She holds a violin upright on her foot and looks thoughtfully into the camera.

Artist in Residence
Chamber Music Hall

Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker
Janine Jansen violin
Sunwook Kim piano

Works by
Johannes Brahms and George Enescu

Johannes Brahms
Trio in E flat major for Piano, Violin and Horn, op. 40

Sunwook Kim piano

Interval

George Enescu
String Octet in C major, op. 7

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