About ME

Johanna Haniková, winner of international competitions and graduate of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, is completing her doctoral studies on the piano works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and teaches at the Institute of Singing and Opera Directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She is also President of IPASA (International Performing Arts Support Association) and Artistic Director of the Lied Academy in Zdar na Sazavou. She studied piano with Prof. Ivan Klánský, at the University of Music in Dresden with Prof. Arkadi Zenziper and at the Music and Arts Private University of the City of Vienna with Prof. Ralf Heiber. Her musical expression was fundamentally influenced by her work with Giuseppe Ravì and his method "Respiro e Movimento^®". She attended masterclasses led by prominent figures in the international performing arts (Nikolai Lugansky, Eugen Indjić, Boris Berman, Avedis Kouyoumdjian, Andrzej Jasinski, Behzod Abduraimov). As a soloist, she regularly works with leading Czech orchestras, including the Prague Chamber Philharmonic, the National Theater Orchestra, the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic, the Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava and others, and performs at major music festivals such as Prague Spring, the Mendelssohn Music Week in Wengen, Bösendorfer Salon in Wiener Musikverein, Talentinum, the Antonín Dvořák Music Festival in Příbram, the Leoš Janáček International Music Festival, the Mahler Jihlava Music Festival, the Autunno Musicale a Como, the Bruno Walter Music Days, Prague Live - Artists as Guests in Wolfsburg, the Prague Clarinet Days, the Smetana Days in Pilsen and others. In the field of chamber music, she forms a duo with her sister, violinist Miriam Magdalena Haniková, and is a member of the Mucha Trio, together with violinist Ludmila Pavlova and clarinettist Anna Paulová. Her collaboration with the soloist of the National Theater and Prague State Opera, Ivo Hrachovec, with whom she released a CD of compositions by Leoš Janáček in 2014, is also significant. She recently recorded the unfinished Romance in E minor by L. van Beethoven for the NAXOS record label and released her first solo CD with works by Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Smetana, Janáček and Skoumal.