Žofka Kašparová, Czech Republic

Flute

A versatile flute player from Czech Republic, living in Gothenburg, Sweden for the past four years. Recently she’s done a four months trip to Australia, India and Sri Lanka searching for inspiration in both music and spiritual practice. Žofka started as a classical flute player, but found her passion in folk music and improvisation. She moved to Sweden and graduated there in “World Music” on Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg.

Žofka loves odd meters, experiments and fusions. She’s been a part of Etno Histeria Umeuropa Caravan 2014, Ethno Histeria and Rila Music Exchange in Bulgaria several times and she organized Prague Folk Marathon in 2013/14 together with Kieren Alexander. Currently she’s a part of various projects of various genres in Sweden (arabic, swedish, jazz, experimental,...) composing her own music and teaching.

Catarina Ascensão, Portugal

Dance

Graduated in Contemporary Dance and Choreography (2006), in Portugal, attended a master in Education through Art – Theater. Catarina develops her work between teaching, creating/performing and a path in holistic therapies. Until 2011 Catarina worked as a full time freelancer, mainly in Portugal, combining her artistic work as a dancer in different dance/theater companies and as a teacher in several schools. In 2012, she left this path, started to travel and deepen her holistic research, mainly in India, France and Portugal, with different approaches, discovering bridges between her background and the connection between movement / life / healing. Also in 2012, she started to deepen her knowledge in traditional dances and world music, discovering a new passion. Since then, she has been leading workshops and intensive courses over Europe. Since 2016 she is Dance Artistic Leader in Ethno Portugal, and since 2018, co-coordinating the project with Juanra Campos. In 2019 ETHNO Germany Music Camp will have Dancers for the first time and she will be their Artistic Leader.
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Sami Karkar, France-Tunisia

After 25 years of intense music experience of all kinds, Sami finally discovered folk and traditional music through the Ethno movement. He has now been a participant to more than 20 Ethno music camps and related events - a true Ethno veteran! Sami has lately been based mostly in France, spending some time in Finland, and traveling a lot in Europe and the Mediterranean, and he recently moved to Tübingen (Germany). His most recent projects are the ethno music duo Vilma&Sami, and the Ethno Tunisia music camp that will be launched in 2021.