Jana Kubánková(born 1988, in Czechia) is violinist, cross-disciplinary artist and coach.
Jana graduated in performance and theory of performance from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in 2012. She also gained a full scholarship to study violin at Meadowmount School of Music in NY, USA in 2006, 2007 and 2008. Yet during her teenage age, she performed as a soloist with eminent Czech orchestras, such as Prague Philharmonia and Prague Chamber Orchestra. She also gave life concerts for the Czech Radio Broadcasting. At the age of twenty, Jana became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Jana also took an important part in arranging and coaching many educational projects within the Czech Philharmonic. In 2017, Jana left the orchestra to get artistic freedom and time for her own projects.
Since 2017 Jana has appeared as a concertmaster, soloist and performer of the Berg Orchestra where she premiered many international and Czech contemporary works and participates at cross–disciplinary artistic projects with eminent dance groups and visual artists. She also participated at free artistic projects as performer and free improviser.
Between 2019 – 2023, Jana was a part cross-disciplinary international artistic group Colture Company focusing on human rights issues. As co-author of concepts and performer, she has premiered projects Lili Elbe, about changing the sex and Being Medea, dealing with women migration.
Since 2022, she regularly cooperates as a performer with the Gerhart-Hauptmann Theater, Görlitz-Zittau, Germany.
In 2024, she created sound design for international performance Womanhood in Czech-Brazilian cooperation, premiered at Tanec Praha Festival.
Jana founded an educational method called Psychosomatics for Musicians, based on her training in Laban Analysis of Human Motion, expressive therapies and philosophy. Within this method, she leads the students to body-mind approach and creativity in learning and performing process. Jana is leading workshops mostly within Czechia, Slovakia and additionaly at Meadowmount School of Music in USA, since 2018.
She also presented herself as visual artist. Her works in analog photography were exhibited in 2020 and 2021 on international exhibitions Experiment and Mimesis, in Rome, Italy, curated by Loosenart.
Jana is active in community work. She has run a non-profit organization to manage projects for wide public to share artistic experience from creation. She has taken part in social-art projects with minorities and children in danger, such as Gipsy Camps in Slovakia or Centers for Children in Danger in Prague, people with mental disorders and refugee children.
Recently, her major focus is connecting her knowledge and experience in art and therapy into further authorial work, on urgent social issues of present time.
