Antonin Tucapsky is a Czech Composer who, since 1975, has been living and working in England.

Born:    1928 in Opatovice – Vyskov, Nr. Brno, Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia)

In 1947 he graduated from the Teachers’ Training College in Valasske Mezirici.

In 1951 he graduated from Masaryk University, Brno, in Music Education and Musicology

Privately he studied Compositionwith Jan Kunc who was a pupil of Leos Janacek

In the same year he became a member of the well-known
Moravian Teachers’ Male Voice Choir.   Soon he became the deputy choirmaster of this choir.  

In 1955 Antonin Tucapsky moved to Novy Jicin where he accepted a teaching post at the Teachers’ Training College and he also conducted the local mixed choir.

In 1959 he moved to Ostrava and became a lecturer at the Pedagogical Faculty there and in 1961 he conducted the
Children’s Choir of Ostrava Radio.

In 1964 he became Musical Director of the Moravian Teachers’ Choir.  With this famous body of male-voices he gave many
concerts in Czechoslovakia and throughout Europe and recorded regularly for Czech Radio, and the Supraphon Record Company.  

 In 1969 he gained his PhD for his book “Janacek’s Male Choruses and their Interpretation Tradition”.

In 1975 he moved to England and became a professor of Composition at Trinity College of Music, London where
he remained until his retirement in 1996 during which time he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of  Trinity College of Music(1985)

During his career he received various awards and prizes for his compositions and cultural activity.    Masaryk University, Brno, his alma mater, bestowed on him Doctor Honoris Causa    in 1996.From 1975 Antonin Tucapsky devoted much of his time to Composition rather than choral conducting.  

His compositions have been published in the Czech Republic,
Germany, France, Canada, USA and mostly in England.