Jana Boušková

Jana Boušková studied at Indiana University Bloomington, University of Ostrava and Prague Conservatory. Amelia Tokarska is recorded as having studied under Jana Boušková. The recorded working language is Czech. Employment is recorded with Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Royal Conservatory of Brussels and Royal College of Music.

• Name — Jana Boušková • Born — 27 September 1970 • Birthplace — Prague, Czechoslovakia • Occupation — Musician • Education — * Indiana University Bloomington • University of Ostrava • Prague Conservatory • Spouse — Jiří Kubita • Children — 2 • Mother — Libuše Váchalová • Father — Jiří Boušek • Website — janabouskova.com

Jana Boušková was born in Prague on 27 September 1970. She is the daughter of flutist Jiří Boušek and harpist Libuše Váchalová. She began playing the harp at a young age and gave her first recital when she was seven years old. Boušková attended the Prague Conservatory and the University of Ostrava, where she studied under her mother. She graduated from the University of Ostrava in 1998, after years of distance learning. She recalled in 2017 that her mother was more demanding of her than other students, and that retrospectively, she is grateful to her for this. She also attended classes given by Alice Giles in Bayreuth, and studied under Susann McDonald at Indiana University Bloomington on a Fulbright scholarship.

Boušková won the Maria Damm Rensch Prize at the first USA International Harp Competition in 1989. Three years later, she won the gold medal at the second USA International Harp Competition. She later became the official soloist of the harp maker Lyon & Healy and plays the Lyon & Healy Style 30 concert harp that she received as a prize for winning the second USA International Harp Competition. Also in 1992, Boušková took second place at the eleventh Israel International Harp Competition. She won first prize at the Grand Prix Concours International de Musique de Chambre de Paris in 1998 and the Torneo Internazionale di Musica in 1999. Boušková also received the Czech Republic's 1996 Talent of the Year Award and the 2002 Czech Music Council Award, in recognition of her representation of Czechs on the international stage. As a soloist, Boušková has performed with the Czech Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, among others. She was chosen to premiere Sergiu Natra's Sonata in One Movement in 1999. Other works Boušková has premiered include Ravi Shankar's Sonata for Cello and Harp, alongside Mstislav Rostropovich, and Benjamin Yusupov's Concerto for Flute, Violin, Viola, Harp and Orchestra, alongside Maxim Vengerov and others. Boušková was harp professor at the Prague Conservatory from 1993 to 2012. In 2005, she became professor at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and the Erasmus Brussels University of Applied Sciences and Arts. She was appointed professor at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in 2007 and took up the role of professor at the Royal College of Music in London in 2019. She has also taught at Indiana University Bloomington and the Geneva University of Music.

Boušková is married to Jiří Kubita, a violinist with the Czech Philharmonic. As of 2010, the couple have two sons, and both children play the violin.