Anna Januj began her musical studies at the Bartók Béla Faculty of Arts, University of Szeged, where she was admitted to the unique talents class at the age of 12. She continued her education at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (MDW) in the class of Hans Maria Kneihs and later obtained her diploma in Early Music at the “Accademia Internazionale della Musica” in Milan under the guidance of Pedro Memelsdorff in 2002.

From 2003, she studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig, where she earned her concert diploma in 2007 and her master’s degree in 2009.

Her teachers included Lőrincz László, Anneke Boeke, Hans Maria Kneihs, Pedro Memelsdorff, and Robert Ehrlich.

Januj Anna is a multiple-time recipient of scholarships from the Fondazione Marco Fodella (Milan), the Hungarian State Eötvös Scholarship, and the DAAD German Academic Exchange Service. She has been a finalist and award winner in several Baroque music competitions, including the Chamber Music Competition in Rovereto, the 1st Telemann Chamber Competition in Magdeburg, the 2nd International Telemann Competition for Woodwinds in Magdeburg, and the ERTA Recorder Competition in Feldkirch.

Alongside her studies in early music, she pursued contemporary recorder music under Gerd Lünenbürger (Berlin), Antonio Politano (Lausanne), and Antje Hensel (Leipzig). She was a regular participant in masterclasses and lectures by Nikolaj Ronimus, Peter van Heyghen, Maurice van Lieshout, Peter Holtslag, and Sigiswald Kuijken, among others. Her musical thinking was also profoundly influenced by Meszlényi László, Nádor Magda, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Susanne Scholz, and Nicholas Parle.

She is a founding member of the L’Eclisse chamber ensemble, and has collaborated regularly at concerts and recordings with renowned orchestras and ensembles, including the Leipzig Thomanerchor and Gewandhausorchester, the Budapest Festival Orchestra (Iván Fischer), the Orfeo Orchestra (György Vashegyi), the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart (Helmuth Rilling), Aura Musicale (Balázs Máté), Savaria Baroque (Pál Németh), Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum, Merseburger Hofmusik, Leipziger Barockorchester, La Tempesta, La Villanella Basel, Le Concert Lorrain, and the Berliner Bachakademie.

Since 2003, she has been a teacher at domestic and international masterclasses, and in 2011, she co-founded the Miszla Baroque Early Music Academy alongside Soma Dinyés and Mónika Tóth. She has participated in numerous CD recordings and performed as a soloist across Europe and Asia, including China, Japan, and South Korea.

From 2009 to 2018, she was a recorder professor at the Leipzig University of Music and Theatre. She has also worked as a guest lecturer at various international and Hungarian conservatories and universities, including those in Graz, Szeged, Miskolc, and Budapest.

She is a lecturer at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien (Vienna), where she co-directs the recorder department alongside Prof. Michael Posch. In addition to teaching chamber music and recorder consort, her research has increasingly focused on early Baroque ornamentation, with a particular emphasis on 17th-century Italian sources. Starting in 2024, she will also teach theoretical and practical ornamentation courses at the university.

Since 2025, she has been a recorder professor in the Early Music Department of the Anton Bruckner Private University for Music, Drama, and Dance in Linz.