Guitarist, born in Prague 1957, won the first prize at the National Competition for Classical Guitar in Czechoslovakia at the age of 24 (when he was still a mathematics student). In 1982, shortly after completing his mathematics studies, he emigrated for political reasons; he then studied guitar in Karlsruhe and Basel, where he earned a degree in music with honours.
Since the end of the 1980s, the musician has been busy recording his instrument, initially because he was dissatisfied with the studio sound of many guitar recordings. He embarked on a long-term search for acoustically interesting rooms for recording his instrument. His interest in musical acoustic phenomena was expressed in his work "A contribution to the theory of overtones and combination tones" (Karlsruhe University of Music, 1989). For years he studied acoustics, recording technology and trained as a sound engineer until he founded the Acustica recording studio in 1995. Acustica was in mobile use until 2008, when Jan Žáček opened the converted KLANGSCHEUNE in Lottstetten-Nack, a small idyllic village near the Swiss border, where he also lives, for his ACUSTICA studio.