Xenia Jankovic was born in Serbia (then Yugoslavia), she studied in
Russia (then Soviet Union) with Mstislav Rostropovich and Stefan
Kalianov, in Switzerland with Pierre Fournier and Guy Fallot and in
Germany with André Navarra. Later her most important teachers were
György Sebök and Sandor Vegh.
Over the last decade she has made a
number of recordings including Bach ́s Cello Suites, integral works for
cello and piano by Beethoven (played on the period instruments),
sonatas by Brahms, Chopin, Frank, Debussy and Jevtic and concertos
by Haydn, Dvorak, Elgar, Prokofiev, Khachaturian and Shostakovich. An
active chamber music player and regular participant at many chamber
music festivals, she is a member of the Hamlet Piano Trio, which
performs on both modern and period instruments and has made
recordings of Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Schubert Piano Trios.
Jankovic was artistic director of the chamber music festival Musikdorf
Ernen from 2006 to 2017. In 2018 she founded the Inspirimus project as
a reflection of her artistic, pedagogical and spiritual work. This project is
inspired by the desire to engage more profoundly and responsibly with
art and life in general.
Recently, Jankovic has been arranging and
playing with smaller ensembles, in particular the Ensemble Inspirimus,
which she founded in 2020. Xenia Jankovic is Professor of Cello at the
Detmold University of Music, Germany and gives masterclasses
worldwide. She plays a cello made in 1733 in the Montagnana workshop
by Gregorio Antoniazzi of Colle.