Jana Janků

Jana Janků has a degree from the Academy of Early Music and from Musicology, College of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno. She has taken intensive private lessons with Professor Magdalena Hajóssyová, too. 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, or James Griffet. She has sung leading roles in a number of Baroque operas. She has been engaged by the National Theatre Prague and the National Theatre in Brno. Ms. Janků has also performed with various Czech orchestras and conductors. Ms. Janků is a founding member of the ensemble Musica Poetica and frequently appears with various other Czech ensembles focused on ancient music, and with the contemporary-music Ensemble Opera Diversa (e.g. in the cartoon version of the opera Talking Cattle), too. 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.

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