Janne Thomsen

Fluit

Danish flautist Janne Thomsen is a highly sought after soloist, a passionate chamber musician and a prize winner from competitions in Prague, Paris, Bayreuth, Rome, Vienna and Boston. She is praised by reviewers for her unique artistic voice and enjoys collaborating with leading composers, who have dedicated works to her, such as Osvaldo Golijov, Giya Kancheli, Olli Mustonen and Peteris Vasks.

Projects in 2024 range from Lapland to Australia, including the premiere with Prague Philharmonia of Mustonen's flute concerto, "The Storyteller". This year also brings the release of two recordings, the first with Cecilia Zilliacus, Andreas Brantelid and Bengt Forsberg and the second a project around Danish folk music with the folk fiddler Harald Haugaard and jazz drummer Anders Mogensen.

Janne Thomsen performs as a soloist with orchestras including the English Chamber Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Kremerata Baltica, Salzburg Camerata, Lapland Chamber Orchestra, Hong Kong and Moscow Soloists, conducted by i.a. Gidon Kremer, Olli Mustonen, Christopher Hogwood, Thomas Dausgaard, Christian Kluxen and Maxim Vengerov.

She is also the founder and artistic director of the Danish ”Klassiske Dage” festival (2005-) with programs that strives to imaginatively explore artistic connections with an own narrative.

She has been awarded an "ARAM" – Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in London, which was also her main place of study, before completing her masters at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris.

Janne has been granted support from Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik's Foundation, as well as the New York Danish-American Association a.i. She has taught at the Mozarteum Conservatory in Salzburg and has been a visiting professor at the Lucerne University of Music.

She plays a flute, especially crafted for her, by the Peruvian/Bostonian flute maker, Miguel Arista.