About

Žofie Kašparová is a flute player, bass clarinet player, composer and music teacher from Prague, Czech Republic. She has been living in Gothenburg (Sweden) for nearly five years and nowadays has one foot in each city.

Being educated in many different genres (western classical music, jazz, Swedish traditional music, oriental music, Balkan music and other) makes her a versatile musician adaptable in different contexts.

Žofie’s own composed music is a contemplative world of dreams influenced by western minimalism, oriental rhythms and Scandinavian folk music. But often it is an exciting improvisational flight to the unknown. 

Žofie has been performing on many stages and festivals in Sweden, Czech Republic and all around Europe with different projects – Peacock Tree, GAO, Bosphorus Ensemble, 13th Dimension, Etno Histeria Umeuropa Caravan, Transatlantic Chilean Folk Ensemble, Soliloqui, Unreel, Tamaral,… as well as teaching childern and adults and leading world music workshops.

In 2020 she released her first album of her own compositions called Impressions with the band Peacock Tree.

In 2017 her band 13th Dimension won in open call of Czech Music Crossroads, the biggest world music showcase and conference in Czech Republic.

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Žofie was born in Prague (Czech Republic) and she started with playing classical music as a child. However classical music has never been “the genre of her heart” (even if it remains a remarkable influence in her playing and composition style). The longing for making music “out of the box”, without borders and musts brought her to study at the World Music programme at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg (Sweden), where she graduated in 2017. There she developed as an independent artist and collected many experiences and knowledge that became her huge inspiration for composition – Nordic folk music and Middle Eastern music.

Before her move to Sweden she also studied classical and jazz flute at Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory in Prague and musicology at the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague.