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Jiří Tancibudek
Jiří Tancibudek AM (5 March 19211 May 2004) was a Czech-born Australian oboist, conductor and teacher of great renown in his adopted country and elsewhere. His obituary in the "Adelaide Review", titled "Prince of the oboe", said of his playing:
Biography.
Jiří Tancibudek was born at Mnichovo Hradiště, Czechoslovakia (now in the Czech Republic). His first teacher was Jan Mikeš. He studied at the Prague Conservatory, and in 1944 became oboist with the National Theatre
International Music Festival.
In the Australia Day Honours of 1989, Tancibudek was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM).
He visited Japan in 1991 and 1995 as a jury member of Tokyo International Oboe Competition (sponsored by SONY).
Jiří Tancibudek died on 1 May 2004, on board an aircraft passing over Central Australia, while en route to attend the 7 May 2004 wedding of his granddaughter Sarah in Vienna. A memorial concert to Tancibudek was held at Elder Hall at the University of Adelaide