Janine Jansen Concludes Perspectives Series with The Philadelphia Orchestra

Violinist Janine Jansen concludes herPerspectives series at Carnegie Hall this season joining Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguinand The Philadelphia Orchestra on Tuesday, March 13 at 8:00 p.m. for the New York premiere of Dutch composer Michel Van der Aa's Violin Concerto. The piece, written especially for Ms. Jansen, is described by her as "full of energy and lyricism," and reflects Ms. Jansen's long-time artistic partnership with the composer. Mr. Van der Aa has said that Ms. Jansen's personality served as his inspiration for the work. "If Janine had played the flute, I would have written a flute concerto," he said.

Ms. Jansen gave the world premiere of the concerto in 2015 in Amsterdam with Vladimir Jurowski and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, where Mr. Van der Aa was composer-in-residence. She and the orchestra recorded the work for later release on the RCO Live label. This concert follows the east coast premiere performances with The Philadelphia Orchestra in Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia from March 8-10.

The Philadelphia Orchestra's March 13 program at Carnegie Hall will also include Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2. A pre-concert talk will be held at 7:00 p.m. in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage with Princeton University Professor of Music, Simon Morrison.

During her Carnegie Hall visit in March, Ms. Jansen also leads a private chamber music master class for an invited group of students, presented by Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute.

This March performance follows four acclaimed Perspectives concerts presented by Ms. Jansen at Carnegie Hall this season. Throughout the series, the Dutch violinist has displayed her exemplary passion for collaboration with notable chamber music performances and a mesmerizing solo appearance with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Most recently, her January recital with pianist Jean-Yves Thibuadet and the Dover Quartet was streamed live on medici.tv, reaching music lovers in 97 countries.

About the Artist
With an enviable international reputation, violinist Janine Jansen works regularly with the world's most eminent orchestras and conductors. This season, while she is a Perspectives artist at Carnegie Hall, tours are planned with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Daniele Gatti, the London Symphony Orchestra under Michael Tilson Thomas and Semyon Bychkov, and Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie under Paavo Järvi. Other highlights this season include engagements with the Berliner Philharmoniker with Paavo Järvi, Munich Philharmonic with Zubin Mehta, Staatskapelle Dresden with Antonio Pappano, The Philadelphia Orchestra and Rotterdam Philharmonic with Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Czech Philharmonic with Jakob Hrusa, Oslo Philharmonic and Vienna Symphony with David Afkham, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic with Karina Canellakis, and Iceland Symphony with Daniel Blendulf. She will also travel to the Far East and Australia performing with the Singapore, Sydney, and New Zealand symphony orchestras.

A devoted chamber musician, Ms. Jansen joins Mischa Maisky, Martha Argerich, Itamar Golan, and Lily Maisky for a major European chamber music tour. She performs a number of recitals throughout Europe with pianists Alexander Gavrylyuk, Elisabeth Leonskaja, and Kathryn Stott. In 2003, she founded the hugely successful International Chamber Music Festival in Utrecht. After 13 years, in June 2016, she stepped down from her position as Artistic Director and named cellist Harriet Krijgh as her successor.

Ms. Jansen has won numerous awards, including four Edison Klassiek Awards, four ECHO Klassik awards, the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, NDR Musikpreis for outstanding artistic achievement, and the Concertgebouw Prize. She has been given the VSCD Klassieke Muziekprijs for individual achievement and the Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist Award for performances in the UK. In September 2015, she was awarded the Bremen MusikFest Award. Ms. Jansen studied with Coosje Wijzenbeek, Philipp Hirshhorn, and Boris Belkin.

Janine Jansen plays the 1707 Stradivarius "Rivaz-Baron Gutmann" violin on loan from Dextra Musica.

Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin is confirmed to lead The Philadelphia Orchestra through the 2025-2026 season-an extraordinary and significant long-term commitment. Additionally, he becomes the third music director of The Metropolitan Opera beginning in the 2018-2019 season. Mr. Nézet-Séguin, who holds the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Chair, is an inspired leader of The Philadelphia Orchestra. The New York Times has called him "phenomenal," adding that under his baton, "the ensemble, famous for its glowing strings and homogenous richness, has never sounded better." Highlights of his sixth season include a yearlong celebration of the centenary of Leonard Bernstein's birth; music from and inspired by the British Isles in a three-week festival; and the continuation of a focus on vocal works, including Puccini's Tosca and Haydn's The Seasons.

A native of Montreal, Mr. Nézet-Séguin studied piano, conducting, composition, and chamber music at Montreal's Conservatory of Music and continued his studies with renowned conductor Carlo Maria Giulini; he also studied choral conducting with Joseph Flummerfelt at Westminster Choir College. Among Yannick's honors are an appointment as Companion of the Order of Canada; Musical America's 2016 Artist of the Year Award; Canada's National Arts Centre Award; the Prix Denise- Pelletier; and honorary doctorates from the University of Quebec, Curtis Institute of Music, and Westminster Choir College.

The Philadelphia Orchestra is one of the preeminent orchestras in the world, renowned for its distinctive sound, desired for its keen ability to capture the hearts and imaginations of audiences, and admired for a legacy of imagination and innovation on and off the concert stage. The orchestra is inspiring the future and transforming its rich tradition of achievement, sustaining the highest level of artistic quality, but also challenging-and exceeding-that level by creating powerful musical experiences for audiences at home and around the world.

The Philadelphia Orchestra serves as a catalyst for cultural activity across Philadelphia's many communities, building an offstage presence as strong as its onstage one. With Mr. Nézet-Séguin, a dedicated body of musicians, and one of the nation's richest arts ecosystems, the orchestra has launched its HEAR initiative, a portfolio of integrated initiatives that promotes Health, champions music Education, eliminates barriers to Accessing the orchestra, and maximizes impact through Research. The orchestra's award-winning Collaborative Learning programs engage more than 50,000 students, families, and community members through programs such as PlayINs, side-by-sides, PopUP concerts, free Neighborhood Concerts, School Concerts, and residency work in Philadelphia and abroad.

Through concerts, tours, residencies, presentations, and recordings, the orchestra is a global cultural ambassador for Philadelphia and for the US. Having been the first American orchestra to perform in the People's Republic of China, in 1973 at the request of President Nixon, the ensemble today boasts new five-year partnerships with Beijing's National Centre for the Performing Arts and the Shanghai Media Group. The orchestra annually performs at Carnegie Hall, while also enjoying summer residencies in Saratoga Springs and Vail. For more information, please visit philorch.org.

Carnegie Hall's Perspectives Series
Now in its 18th season, Carnegie Hall's Perspectives series is an artistic initiative in which select musicians are invited to explore their own musical individuality and create their own personal concert series through collaborations with other musicians and ensembles. In the 2017-2018 season, both pianist Daniil Trifonov and violinist Janine Jansen curate Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall.

Previous Perspectives artists have included Senegalese vocalist Youssou N'Dour; Brazilian singer-songwriter Caetano Veloso; Indian classical tabla player Zakir Hussain; experimental rocker David Byrne; singer-songwriters Rosanne Cash and James Taylor; as well as conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim; conductors Pierre Boulez, James Levine, Michael Tilson Thomas, Sir Simon Rattle, and David Robertson; violinists Gidon Kremer, Anne-Sophie Mutter, and Christian Tetzlaff; cellist Yo-Yo Ma; pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Leif Ove Andsnes, Martha Argerich, Emanuel Ax, Evgeny Kissin, Maurizio Pollini, András Schiff, Peter Serkin, and Mitsuko Uchida; sopranos Renée Fleming and Dawn Upshaw; mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato; bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff; the Emerson String Quartet; the Kronos Quartet; and early music ensemble L'Arpeggiata.

Program Information
Tuesday, March 13 at 8:00 p.m.
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Music Director and Conductor
Janine Jansen, Violin

MICHEL VAN DER AA Violin Concerto (NY Premiere)
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27

Pre-concert talk starts at 7:00 PM in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage with Simon Morrison, Professor of Music, Princeton University.

Bank of America is the Proud Season Sponsor of Carnegie Hall.

Ticket Information
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Photo at top of release by Marco Borggreve.

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