Photo: Susie Knoll
Janne Thomsen
Janne Thomsen started playing the flute in her home country of Denmark at the age of four. In 1986 she won the Young Musician of the Year Award, which was followed by competition wins in Prague, Bayreuth, Rome, Vienna and Boston. She studied at London’s Royal Academy of Music and at the Paris Conservatoire under William Bennet, Maurice Bourgue and the Amadeus Quartet. Thomsen has played as guest soloist with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and Kremerata Baltica. She is also active as a chamber musician. She has taught at the Mozarteum Salzburg and Lucerne School of Music. Janne Thomsen is also Artistic Director of the Holstebro International Music Festival in Denmark, which she founded in 2005 and for which she has been formally recognised on several occasions.
Artist's/Ensemble's own websiteProgramme
14.7.
Ole Bull (1810—1880):
Sæterjentens Søndag (Shepherd Girl's Sunday) for flute and piano (1850?)
15.7.
Niels Gade (1817—1890):
Capriccio for violin and piano (1878, transcription for flute and piano)
15.7.
Fazil Say (1970):
The Moving Mansion, Op. 72b for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano
15.7.
Friedrich Kuhlau (1786—1832):
Es kann schon nicht alles so bleiben, Op. 10b No. 4 from 12 Variations and Solos for flute (1810)
16.7.
16.7.
Olli Mustonen (1967):
Anderseniana, Five Pieces on Five Short Tales by Hans Christian Andersen for flute (2023)
16.7.
Carl Reinecke (1824—1910):
Sonata in E minor, Op. 167 for flute and piano 'Undine' (1867)
16.7.
Marzi Nyman (1979):
A Rotten Rhapsody (2016)
17.7.
Jón Leifs (1899—1968):
Introduzione from Quintet, Op. 50 for flute, clarinet, bassoon, viola and cello (1960)
20.7.
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872—1958):
Lark Ascending (1914, arr. for flute and string quintet by Martin Gerigk 2013)