SATURDAY, 22 h
09/08/2025
JANINE JANSEN, violin
CAMERATA SALZBURG
GREGORY AHSS, violin & musical direction

JANINE JANSEN, violin

CAMERATA SALZBURG

GREGORY AHSS, violin & musical direction

PROGRAM

Ricercare a 6 de l’«Ofrena musical» BWV 1079 (versió per a orquestra de cambra de Shane Woodborne).

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)

Concert per a violí en mi menor, op. 64.

Felix Mendelssohn (1809 – 1847)

I. Allegro molto appassionato
II. Andante
III. Allegretto non troppo – Allegro molto vivace

Simfonia núm. 4 en la major «Italiana», op. 90.

Felix Mendelssohn (1809 – 1847)

I. Allegro vivace
II. Andante con moto
III. Con moto moderato
IV. Saltarello: Presto

JANINE JANSEN

Janine Jansen has long-standing relationships with the world’s most prestigious orchestras and conductors. This season highlights a US tour with the London Symphony and Sir Antonio Pappano, as well as European tours with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Klaus Mäkelä and with Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie conducted by Paavo Järvi. She continues her artistic association with the Salzburg Camerata and performs Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons again with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, both in Amsterdam and on their South American tour (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile). In addition, the Vienna Musikverein presents her as a «featured artist» with several projects in the 24/25 season.

She also has commitments with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Gaffigan), the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester (Sanderling) and the Elbe Philharmonic (Oramo), with whom she premièred Britta Byström’s violin concerto Shortening Days in Germany. She gives recitals with Denis Kozhukin and Sunwook Kim at venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Musikverein, the Paris Philharmonic and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

She records exclusively for Decca Classics, and her latest release (June 2024) includes the Sibelius and Prokofiev violin concertos with Klaus Mäkelä and the Oslo Philharmonic, for which she has received great praise.

She is the founder and director of the Utrecht International Chamber Music Festival and co-director of the Sion Festival. Since 2023, she has been a professor at the Kronberg Academy, where she performed along with Gidon Kremer and the Baltic Kamerata at the Kronberg Festival in October 2024.

Janine Jansen trained with Cooske Wijzenbeek, Philip Hirshhorn and Boris Belkin. She plays the Stradivarius Shumsky-Rode from 1715, given in by a European patron.

CAMERATA SALZBURG

Camerata Salzburg has been a mainstay of the Salzburg music scene for over seventy years, with its own concert series and a regular presence at the Salzburg Festival and the Mozartwoche. As cultural ambassadors, they perform in renowned venues such as the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Paris Philharmonic, the Elba Philharmonic, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and the Shanghai Concert Hall. Shaped by musicians from over twenty countries, their sound excels in performing Mozart and the Viennese classical repertoire, in addition to exploring from Baroque to contemporary music.

Founded in 1952 by Bernhard Paumgartner at the Mozarteum, its prestige was built thanks to recordings such as the Mozart piano concertos with Géza Anda and Sir András Schiff. Sándor Végh, chief conductor between 1978 and 1997, expanded its repertoire with Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert, establishing the chamber music approach that outlines its style. Sir Roger Norrington, Leonidas Kavakos and Louis Langrée followed suit.

Since 2016, the CAMERATA has performed with a joint leadership model headed by its concertmasters Gregory Ahss and Giovanni Guzzo. It also collaborates with conductors such as Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Philippe Herreweghe and Manfred Honeck. They hold partnerships with pianist Hélène Grimaud and violinist Janine Jansen and have worked with artists such as Lisa Batiashvili, Mao Fujita, Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Fazil Say in the 2024/25 season.

In addition to their presence in Salzburg, they have taken part in festivals such as Gstaad Menuhin, Rheingau, Canary and Ruhr Piano Festival. CAMERATA Young and educational projects on international tours reflect their commitment to music education.

The Messenger (2020) with Hélène Grimaud, Schumann’s Piano Concerto (2022), conducted by Giovanni Guzzo, and their most recent album with Kian Soltani, released in 2024 and conducted by concertmaster Gregory Ahss, stand out among their recordings with Deutsche Grammophon.

GREGORY AHSS

Israeli violinist Gregory Ahss debuted as a soloist under Claudio Abbado along with the Orchestra Mozarteum in Bologna. He later began performing regularly with Abbado, who appointed him the Lucerne Festival Orchestra’s concertmaster. His recording of Haydn’s Symphony Concertante alongside the Mozart Orchestra, conducted by Claudio Abbado, has won numerous renowned awards, including the ICMA for Best Concert of the Year 2015.

As a soloist, he has also staged with conductors such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Teodor Currentzis, Daniel Blendulf and Andrés Orozco-Estrada, and has performed with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Mozart Orchestra of Bologna, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Symphony Orchestra and the CAMERATA Salzburg.

Gregory is regularly invited to take part in educational projects and master classes, such as those hosted at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and he’s a jury member of the Sendai International Music Competition.

His chamber music partners include Natalia Gutman, Janine Jansen, Vilde Frang, James Ehnes, Lawrence Power, Emmanuel Pahud, Gautier Capuçon, Nicolas Altstaedt, Sabine Meyer, Alexander Melnikov and Fazil Say. Gregory Ahss has also been a violin duet partner of Pinchas Zukerman.

He has also been a guest conductor with renowned ensembles such as the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Mozart Orchestra of Bologna, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Gran Canaria Philharmonic Orchestra, and Lucerne Festival Strings, leading from the violin in repertoire ranging from chamber symphonies to full symphonic works.

Gregory began training in his native Moscow at the Gnessin School of Music. He pursued his education with Lena Mazor and Irina Svetlova at the Israel Conservatory, the Tel Aviv Academy of Music, and later, at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, in the class of Donald Weilerstein.

He previously held the Mahler Chamber Orchestra concertmaster position and is currently concertmaster of the CAMERATA Salzburg, the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra.