Janet was born in Zimbabwe where she began violin and piano lessons at the age of seven. In 1984 she won a scholarship to the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, UK, where she studied with Christopher Rowland (leader of the Fitzwilliam String Quartet) and Benedict Holland. After graduating in 1988, Janet freelanced with many major orchestras such as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Opera North and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, before taking up her current position of assistant sub-principal second violin in the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in 1991. Janet plays on a fiddle by Derazay.
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