Yana was born in Kyrgyz SSR (now Kyrgyzstan). Since childhood, music was an instrument she used to convey her thoughts, ideas, and feelings. Yana got her first experience of music by listening to guitar and accordion music played by her father. Growing up as a music lover, she started to write her own pieces for piano and voice but kept them concealed from others for some quiet time. At 15, she graduated from Children's Music School in Kyrgyzstan and dreamed about pursuing a college music degree. After moving to the U.S., Yana became a mother of three children and gave all her attention to her family. Years later, still not losing hope to pursue music, she got her Associate of Arts at Lower Columbia College in Washington State. Then having a great desire to write more music, she earned her Bachelor of Music in Composition at Portland State University.

She met a lot of people, among them were her professors, other professional musicians, as well as just amateurs in music, but all of them were saying that Yana’s music has its own signature that makes her compositions don’t sound like any other.

Now Yana is working as a freelance composer with much love and passion for music. She is working on new pieces along with her already-written ones and is hoping to share them with the world.