Ján Števuliak (b. 1999, Slovakia) is a composer, organist and artist based in Finland, exploring music in connection with the communal, the environmental (both human and non-human) and contrasts between subjectivity and objectivity. Raised in a rural environment of the Orava region in Slovakia, their early musical education was influenced by folk and church music. Sonic features in Ján’s works are often a result of finding a way of translating extra-musical phenomena, working with thematic restraints, aleatorism or post-processing.

Most recently, Ján has written a post-human speculative piece inspired by a bike rave for the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, researched ritualism in a work for the Avanti! orchestra or collaborated on music to accompany Buster Keaton’s film The Cook at IRCAM. They have written for dance and stage since the start of their studies at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, and collaborated with dramaturgs on interdisciplinary shows at the University of Arts Helsinki.

Ján is a recipient of both composition and organ performance prizes (XXII Gorazd Organ Days 2017, John Halford Composition Prize 2022). Ján has workshopped with Liza Lim or Martin Matalon, as an organist, they perform traditional or experimental works and are active as a performer in electroacoustic sets.