The musical universe is infinite and the galaxy of best-loved composers alone contains thousands of musical suns. Stylistically, though, these are often musical light-years apart. The Janoska Ensemble has set out to span intergalactic distance with its unique synthesis of musical worlds and its venture has won it an enthusiastic international public in a remarkably short time.
The four young progenitors of this art – each with a superb classical training – have combined their individual musical attainments to perfection: Ondrej, František and Roman Janoska (three brothers from Bratislava) and their brother-in-law Julius Darvas (born and bred in Konstanz) are already successful in repeated engagements on four continents.
The Janoska Ensemble has achieved the feat, in the competitive jungle of today’s music scene, of forging their specific style into their own brand and thus into a genre concept, namely their Janoska Style, transposing familiar references from classic to pop into an audibly related and yet quite new message. Nor is this all: each of their precision-tuned arrangements invariably carries the hallmark of the Ensemble’s abounding musical invention, the
Janoska fingerprints. This fingerprinting – with an amazing range of expression from moving to thrilling – naturally shows up in the ensemble members’ own compositions.
The Janoska Style possesses the rare ability to enthuse dedicated followers of totally opposing genres. Its vast reserves of positive energy electrify an
audience after just a few bars.
The Janoska Ensemble’s debut album Janoska Style was released on the prestigious classical music label Deutsche Grammophon in 2016 and attained gold status within a year.
Recently the Janoska Ensemble released their brand-new album Revolution In homage to the four ingenious Liverpoolers, the Janoska Ensemble has arranged, next to unique classical arrangements, three top Beatles hits in Janoska style for their album.
Roman Janoska plays a violin, kindly loaned to him by Dr Christian Kuhn.
Members of Janoska Ensemble include:
Ondrej Janoska (Violin)
Roman Janoska (Violin)
František Janoska (Piano)
Julius Darvas (Double bass)
Bandi Janoska (Primasch violin)
Arpad Janoska (Traditional jazz singer)
