A composer of stillness, memory, and line.

Lukáš Janata (b. 1995) is a Czech composer based between San Francisco and Prague. His music has been described as ‘patient, luminous, and quietly insistent’: concerned with stillness, the weight of memory, and the way a single line can carry an entire architecture.

He has written for the Orchestra of St. Luke's, Alarm Will Sound, the Janáček Philharmonic, JACK Quartet, The Crossing, and Cantori New York, among others. His chamber opera ‘The Hours,’ after Virginia Woolf, was developed with Beth Morrison Projects.

Janata studied composition at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and at the Manhattan School of Music, where he worked closely with Reiko Füting and Susan Botti. He is a recipient of the Czech Music Council’s Young Composer Prize and a Fromm Music Foundation commission.

Alongside composing, he is a passionate educator. He believes that an education centered on the whole musician (listening, reading, performing, writing) is more lasting than narrow specialization. He teaches composition, theory, piano, and voice.