Amia Janicki
An engaged young performer, Amia Janicki shares music on stage while also promoting new artistic creation. Swiss, of Austro-Polish-Japanese origin, and passionate about interdisciplinary projects, the violinist co-created L'Oiseau, a short film inspired by George Enescu's Impressions d'enfance, op. 28, released in 2023. Amia appears in the film as actress and musician, and co-produced it alongside production Le Hangar, under the direction of Lily Landecy. This project emerged from a close collaboration blending the worlds of cinema and music.
She also worked with choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui in 2022–2023 on his ballet Ukiyo-e. She actively explores contemporary repertoire, developing new creations at the Vienna Konzerthaus and La Monnaie de Munt.
As a soloist, she has performed with orchestras such as the Tonkünstler Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, and the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra. She has been invited to major festivals including the Verbier Festival, Festival Ravel, Festival de Sion, the Late Summer Music Festival Dubrovnik, and La Roque-d'Anthéron Festival.
She began her musical training with Tedi Papavrami in Geneva, before obtaining her Bachelor's degree from the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien with Pavel Vernikov. Since 2021, she has been an artist-in-residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel under the guidance of Augustin Dumay, and in 2025 she completed a soloist master's degree at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne in the class of Svetlana Makarova. She is currently completing a second master's degree in pedagogy with Andreas Janke at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).
In 2021, Amia won First Prize at the 12th Václav Huml International Violin Competition and is a laureate of the XIII Jean Sibelius International Competition.
Alongside her solo career, she performs regularly in chamber music with artists such as Gilles Apap, Gary Hoffman, Miguel da Silva, and François-Frédéric Guy.
Her first CD, featuring Enescu's Octet, was released in 2023 on the Fuga Libera label. Her second album will be released in October 2026 on the Claves label and will include the short film L'Oiseau.
Amia plays a 1645 Niccolò Amati violin, generously loaned by the Maggini Foundation with the support of LS Core.
She is also Professor of Violin at the LUCA School of Arts in Belgium and assistant to Andreas Janke at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK).