Petr Skoumal is a Czech

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

 musician

Musician

A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

 and composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

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Skoumal focuses on film music. He also composes music for animated shorts (i.e. Pat & Mat

Pat & Mat

Pat & Mat is a Czech stop-motion animated series featuring two handymen, Pat and Mat...

, Maxipes Fík

Maxipes Fik

Maxipes Fík is a popular cartoon character of Czech children TV animated series. First series was shot in 1975. The author and screenwriter was Rudolf Čechura and the animator was Jiří Šalamoun. Music was composed by Petr Skoumal, the voice was narrated by actor Josef Dvořák. The second series was...

). In the past he made several stage performances with Jan Vodňanský in The Drama Club

The Drama Club (Prague)

The Drama Club is a theatre located in Prague.The Drama Club was founded by Ladislav Smoček and Jaroslav Vostrý. The opening performance of Piknik took place on 3 March 1965. The actors in the seventies and eighties included Petr Čepek, Pavel Landovský, Josef Somr, Jiří Kodet, Libuše Šafránková...

 in Prague

Prague

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. After the break-up of the duo he made several album

Album

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s for adults, echoing the communist times (i.e. Half-life, March). In the 90s he started a series of albums for children, based on the stories of Emanuel Frynta, Pavel Šrut

Pavel Šrut

Pavel Šrut is a Czech poet and writer.-Career:After graduating in 1967 from the Charles University in Prague where he studied English and Spanish, Šrut worked as an editor in a publishing house. Since 1972, he is a freelance writer and translator...

 and Jan Vodňanský (i.e. If the Pig had Wings

If the Pig had Wings

If the Pig had Wings is an album for children. It includes songs by Petr Skoumal, based on rhymes by Emanuel Frynta and Pavel Šrut.The title song is based on a rhyme If Pigs Could Fly by James Reeves. In 1996, Petr Skoumal together with stage director Jan Borna and actor Jan Vondráček turned the...

, Pastries, How to hunt a Gorilla). The former was made into a stage performance for Divadlo v Dlouhé

Divadlo v Dlouhé

Divadlo v Dlouhé is a repertoire theatre with a permanent group of actors established in 1996 as a set financed by the Municipality of Prague. The group of actors comprises graduates of the Theatre Academy of Musical Arts, part of the actors have studied in the Department of Alternative and...

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He is the son of the notable Czech translator Aloys Skoumal.

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