Petr Malásek (born 1964 in Prague) is a pianist and composer, the son of the pianist and composer Jiří Malásek. He has played the piano since childhood; after the conservatory he studied composition at HAMU (1985 to 1990) with Jiří Pauer and Václav Riedlbauch. He has written incidental music for almost two hundred films, series and stage productions and was nominated for the Czech Lion for film music (2003). As a pianist and conductor he accompanied Hana Hegerová, worked with Marta Kubišová and has performed with Lucie Bílá since 2000, also producing her albums. For more than twelve years he has been the pianist and one of the composers of the František Kop Quartet, with which he recorded the albums News of the Past (2020) and Chillies (2022) on Amplión Records. He teaches composition in the popular music department of the Prague Conservatory. More at petrof.com/petr-malasek.
