Antonin Tucapsky is a Czech Composer who was living and working in England since 1975. He was born in the country near a small Moravian town of Vyskov which is situated in the southwest part of Moravia (Moravia was in the middle part of the formerly Czechoslovakia).
- 1947 he graduated from the Teachers' Training College in Valasske Mezirici.
- 1951 he graduated from Masaryk University, Brno, in Music Education and Musicology
- from 1950 - 51 he studied Choral Conducting at the Janacek Academy of Music, Brno
- he studied privately composition with Jan Kunc who was a pupil of Leos Janacek
- 1951 he took up a teaching post at the Higher Music School in Kromeriz
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1969 he gained his PhD for his book "Janacek's Male Choruses and their Interpretation Tradition".
- 1975 he moved to England and became a professor of Composition at Trinity College of Music in 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. In 2008 he had been declared the most successful composer of contemporary classical music by the Authors and Publishers Copyright Company in Prague (OSA).
