ABOUT

Janet has worked for studios such as 20^th Century Studios, Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, Netflix, Walt Disney Studios, StudioCanal, Focus Features, Heyday Films, ILM, Cinesite, Assemblage Entertainment, and Aniventure for live-action, musical, and animated feature film and TV productions. 

Those included the upcoming musical Wonka (for which she has been involved for over 15 months), Death On The Nile, Downton Abbey: A New Era, A Boy Called Christmas, Riverdance, Super Giant Robot Brothers, and Ultraman (upcoming) involving Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe, Annie, and Emmy Award-winning / -nominated directors and composers Kenneth Branagh, Patrick Doyle, Dario Marianelli, Paul King, Simon Curtis, John Lunn, Gil Kenan, Mark Andrews, Joby Talbot, Shannon Tindle, John Aoshima, and Alex Mandel.

In terms of music production, Janet honed her skills during her time at ECM Records as assistant to producer and multiple Grammy Award and Downbeat Critics Poll winner Manfred Eicher. 

She went on to work for Grammy Award-winning recording engineers such as Tony Faulkner, Simon Kiln, and Jonathan Allen for productions ranging from chamber music ensembles to large-scale orchestral and choir setups. Whilst also running sessions with the London Chamber Orchestra on her own, those included recordings for the LSO, Britten Sinfonia, and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields at venues such as Abbey Road Studios, King’s College Chapel Cambridge, Merton College Chapel Oxford, Barbican Concert Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall, and the Menuhin Hall.

A violinist and violist, trained by former Berlin Philharmonic solo violist Wilfried Strehle at the Berlin University of the Arts, Janet performed under the late Bernhard Haitink, David Zinman, Nello Santi, and Jesus Lopez-Cobos, amongst others, in concert halls including the Berlin Philharmonic, Konzerthaus Berlin, Tonhalle Zurich, the Smetana Hall in Prague, and the Warsaw Philharmonic. 

Although Janet has a background as a professional orchestral musician, she always enjoyed engaging with different genres and styles, playing at pop, jazz, and world music concerts such as the Baloise Session (a festival with guests including Elton John, Paolo Conte, Jamiroquai, Iggy Pop, John Legend, Gregory Porter, and Norah Jones), amongst others. 

Other than that, she enjoys experimenting with her synth (Moog Matriarch).

She was awarded grants from the Paul Hindemith Foundation (Chamber Music Academy), the International Summer Academy of the Mozarteum Salzburg, the Hillel Foundation, the Bruno Schuler Foundation, and the Erna & Curt Burgauer Foundation.