Jana Semaan started learning cello at the age of eight at the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music. After graduating from high school, Jana moved to Berlin where she was granted a scholarship to pursue cello studies. One year later, she auditioned to the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Stuttgart. She graduated with top grades in 2014. Meanwhile Jana was touring regularly as an orchestra and chamber musician under the baton of Daniel Barenboim and others. She participated in several international festivals in Europe, Asia, the Americas and Lebanon. In 2016, Jana received her Master’s degree in Early Music/Baroque Cello with distinction. She was appointed board member and advisor at the early music university department. Jana participated in many master classes with renowned musicians and is always active as a chamber musician through academies, festivals and regular ensembles. As a baroque cellist, living in Europe exposed her to big influences. Since 2017, Jana teaches music at several universities in Lebanon. In September 2018, she founded the Center for Early Music at the Université Antonine, Lebanon, the first of its kind in the region, where also guest teachers from Germany visit regularly.

With her premiere recording project of the complete toccatas of Francesco Paolo Scipriani / Supriano (1678-1753) in 2019, she introduced herself as a solo baroque cellist to a large audience, while also pursuing the pedagogical approach of spreading this work to cello students and providing a historically informed performance practice of less-known compositions of the cello repertoire.