Biography

• Jana Janků (mezzo-soprano, historical harp) has a degree from the Academy of Early Music and Musicology, College of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno. She has also taken intensive private lessons with Magdalena Hayossyová, Professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Ms. Janků has participated in numerous master courses under the direction of Europe's finest musicians, such as Barbara Schlick, Marius van Altena, Richard Wistreich, Roberto Gini, Evelyn Tubb, Gerard Lesne or James Griffet. She has sung leading roles in a number of Baroque operas, such as Henry Purcell's Dido a Aeneas, E. de Cavalieri's Rappresentazione di anima e di corpo, F. X. Brixi's Erat unum cantor bonus, etc. She has been engaged by the National Theatre Prague and the National Theatre in Brno. Ms. Janků has also performed with the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra Ostrava, the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra Zlín, the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc, Czech Virtuosi and the Czech Chamber Soloists (Bach's Magnificat, Charpentier's Te Deum, Vivaldi's Gloria, etc.); and with conductors such as T. Netopil, T. Hanák, P. Fiala, or R. Štúr.
  Ms. Janků is a founding member of the ensemble Musica Poetica and frequently appears with various other Czech ensembles or the contemporary-music Ensemble Opera Diversa (e.g. in the cartoon version of the opera Talking Cattle). She has a number of recordings with the Czech Radio and the Radio Proglas to her credit, as well as several documentaries produced by the Czech TV.
  She is the author of the play Baroque Women about 3 Italian women composers.
  She occasionally translates older texts from German and Italian.
  He is intensively involved in playing the historical harp. In 2017/2018 she studied the three-row baroque harp at the Conservatory in Verona, Italy (prof. Maria Cleary), in 2022 she graduated in historical harp at the J. J. Fux Conservatory in Graz, Austria (prof. Tanja Vogrin) In 2023/24 she studied medieval harp at the International Centre for Medieval Music (Manuel Vilas). She performs with the ensembles Kontramoment and Musica Poetica, in duo with cello or flute, and has solo concert programmes. As a harpist, she has collaborated in concerts of the Department of Historical Performance of the JAMU, and in 2023 she played in Popporchestra 6 performances of Monteverdi's opera L'Incoronazione di Poppea. In 2021 she won 3rd place in the international competition Crazy Harp Challenge in Prague. She has participated in the courses More Hispano (ESMUC, Barcelona - Sara Agueda, Mara Galassi), IFC - Daroca (Nuria Llopis) and Mirabilia (UIMP Cuenca - Manuel Vilas).
  
  
  
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