Janoska Ensemble

Janoska Ensemble
The ensemble that transports improvisation in classical music into the 21st century. In other words, an exciting and adventurous journey to the final frontiers where no musician has gone before …

New directions in music are currently trending under imaginative names, fusion and crossover categories are constantly expanding. But the classically trained Janoska Ensemble crosses all boundaries with its polyglot musical language. Its debut CD, which climbed to gold within a few months, bears the apt title “JANOSKA STYLE” (Deutsche Grammophon 2016). Their 2019 album “REVOLUTION” also reached gold status. In 2022, album No. 3 entitled “THE BIG B’s” was released. The fourth Deutsche Grammophon album “THE FOUR SEASONS” is in preparation (release October 2024).
Summing up the special quality of the Janoska arrangements in a few words is no easy task: they are parallel incursions into classical territory and into far distant realms of musical repertoire, in which the musicians exercise their spontaneous creativity to fashion first-class, innovative, thrilling music that lives and breathes. These incomparably audience-friendly transformations are the work of three brothers from Bratislava – Ondrej and Roman Janoska playing violins and František Janoska at the piano – together with their Konstanz-born brother-in-law Julius Darvas on double-bass.