Petr Skoumal

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Petr Skoumal (* 7 March 1938) is a Czech musician and composer.

Skoumal focuses on film music, for an extensive list of his compositions please see the IMDb link below. He also composes music for animated short-stories (i.e. Pat & Mat, Maxipes Fík). In the past he made with Jan Vodňanský several stage performances in The Drama Club. After break-up of the duo he made several albums for adults, echoing the communist times (i.e. Half-life, March). In the nineties he started as series of albums for children, based on texts of Emanuel Frynta, Pavel Šrut and Jan Vodňanský (i.e. If the Pig had Wings, Pastries, How to hunt a Gorilla). The former was made into a stage performance for Divadlo v Dlouhé.