Andreas Janke, of German-Japanese origin, initiated his violin studies at the age of 3. He started his musical training in Germany and then Austria, at the Mozarteum of Salzburg under Igor Ozim. Prize winner of many international competitions, he has won Second Prize at the Rodolfo Lipizer Competition and Third Prize at the Benjamin Britten Competition. He has performed with various European orchestras, and given recitals in Europe as well as in Japan. Since November 2006 he is concertmaster of the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich and since 2013 he teaches the violin at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. Together with pianist Oliver Schnyder and cellist Benjamin Nyffenegger he performs as the Oliver Schnyder Trio.