Karel Havlíček

Karel Havlíček is a Czech film and television composer, pianist and multi-instrumentalist working between Prague and Los Angeles. He has composed music for the feature films Brothers, Suppressed, Ghoul, Lion Ark, Carpe Noctem and They Call Me LARS, as well as for the HBO television series Terapie and Mamon. His music has also appeared in a trailer for HBO’s The Penguin, the Gary Sinise-produced project Brothers After War and an ELLE campaign. In 2024, he received a Czech Lion nomination for his score for Brothers.

In 2026, Havlíček was named among the three most successful Czech popular-music authors abroad at the OSA Awards. The same year, he released the original motion picture soundtrack for They Call Me LARS and the single Return Of The Sun.

Before launching his solo career, Havlíček was a musician and composer with the band Southpaw. His 2020 album Spoken combines piano, electronics and a large orchestra. He has also presented the project live with the Stro_my Ensemble orchestral collective, including a performance at Prague’s O2 universum. In 2024, he released Pregnancy Music, a project created for expectant mothers, followed in 2025 by the double album It’s Never Late To See The Light.

Havlíček’s work brings together film music, modern classical composition, electronics and ambient textures. Alongside his work for film and television, he develops his own concert repertoire. He is a co-founder of the Prague-based music and audio post-production facility Kabelovna Studios and an ambassador for the Czech piano manufacturer PETROF, for which he and his brother Maxim introduced the PETROF Gemini upright piano.