Janine Jansen (born January 7, 1978 in Soest in the Netherlands) is a violinist. She began to study the violin at age 6. Her father and both her brothers are also musicians. Her mother is a classical singer. Jansen studied with Coosje Wijzenbeek, Philipp Hirshhorn, and Boris Belkin.

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. When performing live, she is sometimes rather adventurous with her performance, with emphasis on emotional accents more than on precision or adherence to status quo.

She has eschewed tradition by recording with only 5 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, such as in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra 2006 concert in Berlin's Waldbühne Amphitheater, 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 currently uses the 1727 Stradivari "Barrere" violin, on extended loan by the Stradivari Society of Chicago. She has begun her own chamber music festival in Utrecht. She has been a member of Spectrum Concerts Berlin since 1998.

Jansen and her former boyfriend, the violinist Julian Rachlin, have collaborated in chamber music performances.

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a young Janine Jansen plays Mendelssohn Violin Concerto

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